City fan Will Unwin remembers life in League One in the pre-Sheikh Mansour era and knows what he prefers
Describing something as “typical City” is a reference to the club shooting itself in the foot. Previously, it was brought up when discussing Jamie Pollock beating two men before heading the ball over his own goalkeeper to almost certainly doom the club to relegation to the third tier. Twenty-two years on it now seems to be a euphemism for financial doping.
The situation the club now finds itself in was an inevitability. Financial Fair Play was announced in 2009 and 11 years later it should not come as a surprise that someone would be found guilty of abusing it. City have done nothing illegal but few at the club seem to remember that they agreed to abide by Uefa’s rules and have been found to have broken them, which means they deserve to be punished. There is little to debate on that front.
Written by Will Unwin
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2020/feb/16/manchester-city-ban-was-worth-it-to-see-sergio-aguero-and-raheem-sterling under the title “Manchester City ban was worth it to see Agüero and Sterling”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
