Manchester City is run by, and in the interests of, the United Arab Emirates, a state whose appetite for conflict and violence is matched by its contempt for rules and norms.
By Nick McGeehan, the director of FairSquare, which runs the rebootfifa.com campaign.
"Of course, we can do what we want."
After 18 years, 25 trophies and 115 charges it really all comes down to those 8 words. Manchester City board member Simon Pearce wrote them in an email in 2013, Der Spiegel published them five years later and it has taken a further eight years for Manchester City to be held accountable for the rule breaking to which they referred, although perhaps it’s too soon for such optimistic assertions. When Manchester City board member Simon Pearce said “we”, he wasn’t actually talking about Manchester City, and the shock and disbelief that has accompanied the Premier League investigation’s damning findings on Manchester City’s conduct suggests that a lot of people still haven’t wrestled with the true nature of this ownership model.
It has been said many times before but it bears repeating that the Premier League isn’t dealing with a football club, it is dealing with a vastly powerful and extremely dangerous state whose appetite for conflict and viol...
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