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Long before the 115 charges, there was a telex machine in Berkeley Square (opens the original)
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By Patrick NallySince Friday, football has been consumed by reports that Manchester City have been found guilty of 114 breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.The allegations are still to be tested on appeal, but at their heart, they concern sponsorship money and where it really came from. Everyone is asking how money came to rule football so completely.I can tell you, and I’ve written a book about it (below). Because I was there when it started - and I built the machine.<a class="image
REVEALED: Manchester City legal letters where the main aim was to get me sacked (opens the original)
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This article was first published in December 2025It’s more than 11 years since Manchester City first accepted a major UEFA punishment for financial cheating, or “cooking their books”, for artificially inflating their income and artificially reducing their costs. This is how The Guardian reported it at the time, and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.u
Short and sweet: thanks for your support (opens the original)
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I wrote a piece last month where I said that the income from any new paying subscribers as a result of that piece would all be given to three charities.That income was $982 (£740), and as a result, Maggie’s, Brain Tumour Research, and a hospice have each received £250 today.So thanks to all those who, in effect, contribut
Sirius business: how a small team from Uppsala in Sweden has shocked the league. For now (opens the original)
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This piece was commissioned for the Nutmeg Substack and I’ve been writing for them regularly since 2024. Those pieces will appear here, and over there. More about Nutmeg, the Scottish Football Quarterly, later.No Scotsman, no party?That is the big current fear for fans of IK Sirius - the surprise package of this season in Sweden’s top football division.By Monday 10 Augus
MCFC panel warned not to let City off the hook, if guilty, as Infantino’s UEFA did in 2014 (opens the original)
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In 2014, one of the most senior figures at football’s European governing body, UEFA - a grey bureaucrat called Gianni Infantino (below, with Donald Trump years later) - personally intervened to negotiate with senior officials at Manchester City and PSG to ensure that both clubs escaped without bans from the Champions League following huge, egregious breaches of UEFA’s Financial Fair Play rules.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!xdvh!,f_auto
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