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Man City - 115 Charges

FTM73

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Just been reading and article about the Man City 115 charges case & the fact that the odds of them being relegated have fallen from 16-1 to 12-1 seems to indicate that an announcement will happen soon.

Putting aside us getting retroactively awarded the 2014 League Cup & it taking the shine off those lot up the road, surely this means that it's more important than ever that we go up this season? I'm assuming that City would come down in a 3 with Southampton & probably Leicester and that they'd be promoted again next season, leaving up to half a dozen teams vying for the other automatic space, nevermind the play offs.

Would they also have a points deduction next season too, just like Sheffield United, as anything else would surely just be unfair on those already in the Championship, making promotion next year much harder?

Maybe having 3 + Man City come down and 4 go up this season would be fairer (as long as we're one of the 4).
 

Stuck a tenner on them at the start of the season to be relegated, 12-1. Maximum £10 bet.

Woudl be ideal if it got delayed. We got promoted and then give them a 90 point deduction next season! Probably still finish above us but at least it’s one team down before season starts 🤣

Although increase the chances of the mags getting in the champions league, so I’m hoping it’s not too harsh and keeps them out of the champions league!
 
They'll get a non punishment which is dressed up as a punishment. Like a 30 point penalty, implemented this season, which means that instead of finishing 6th and qualifying for the Conference League, they finish 17th. Affecting absolutely nothing.
 
Kieran Maguire on Price of Football reckons that the PL and EFL, being separate entities for these things, means Citey cant be automatically relegated (like Juve in Calciopoli) but a huge points deduction might lead to it. Cynically, the points deduction might just be such that they dont drop into the bottom three
 
I cannot see them getting relegated like, there would be hell on and it would be shite for the championship teams.
 
FTM73 said:
Just been reading and article about the Man City 115 charges case & the fact that the odds of them being relegated have fallen from 16-1 to 12-1 seems to indicate that an announcement will happen soon.

Putting aside us getting retroactively awarded the 2014 League Cup & it taking the shine off those lot up the road, surely this means that it's more important than ever that we go up this season? I'm assuming that City would come down in a 3 with Southampton & probably Leicester and that they'd be promoted again next season, leaving up to half a dozen teams vying for the other automatic space, nevermind the play offs.

Would they also have a points deduction next season too, just like Sheffield United, as anything else would surely just be unfair on those already in the Championship, making promotion next year much harder?

Maybe having 3 + Man City come down and 4 go up this season would be fairer (as long as we're one of the 4).
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Staking £10 on City being relegated means you will lose £10.
 
Will end up with the Fa apologising to City literally nothing will happen. I think they broken several rules but football has never been fair and you can still do things and sell assets to cook the books.

So all a bit pointless really.
 
FTM73 said:
Just been reading and article about the Man City 115 charges case & the fact that the odds of them being relegated have fallen from 16-1 to 12-1 seems to indicate that an announcement will happen soon.

Putting aside us getting retroactively awarded the 2014 League Cup & it taking the shine off those lot up the road, surely this means that it's more important than ever that we go up this season? I'm assuming that City would come down in a 3 with Southampton & probably Leicester and that they'd be promoted again next season, leaving up to half a dozen teams vying for the other automatic space, nevermind the play offs.

Would they also have a points deduction next season too, just like Sheffield United, as anything else would surely just be unfair on those already in the Championship, making promotion next year much harder?

Maybe having 3 + Man City come down and 4 go up this season would be fairer (as long as we're one of the 4).
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Retroactively awarding a trophy must be a very strange scenario. I am sure players would have had some kind of financial incentive in their contracts at the time etc.
 
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