Legal battle between Manchester City and the Premier League highlights the game’s existential crisis – and it may already be too late to save it
Legal battle between Manchester City and the Premier League highlights the game’s existential crisis – is it too late to save it?
Football has never been so popular. Crowds in England are at the highest they have been for half a century and, if you include non-league football, probably ever. The global television audience is vast. It is an all-consuming universal. And yet that is its very problem; football is so magnetic that it has drawn the interest of too many who see it not as a sport, not as cultural expression, but as an entity from which they may profit.
City, it could be argued, have done the game a favour by closing a loophole that ensures tighter financial controls. However, if that were their aim, it seems odd that they would describe the Premier League’s plan to update the regulations accordingly as “an unwise course”, which “would likely to lead to further legal proceedings with further legal costs”.The broader issue now is whether they have isolated a procedural flaw that could undermine the Premier League’s 130 charges against them .
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