Manchester City’s guilty verdict brings football’s great sell-off crashing to earth | Manchester City
By: David Conn | Published: 2026-10-03 05:00:51 | Source: www.theguardian.com
It was somehow fitting that Tuesday’s damning ruling against Manchester City landed in the heart of the Labour party conference, in the afterglow of Andy Burnham’s rapturously received prime minister’s speech.
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I was there, and read the astonishing 40 pages of findings – that City created “sham” contracts to boost income artificially by £900m – on my phone during a long meeting of…
