Retrospective titles for Man Utd? What Man City's 'guilty' verdict means for PL
Hello and welcome to a special edition of Offside, where we make sense of the ‘guilty verdict’ against Manchester City on 114 out of 115 charges, decode what it means for the Premier League, question where it leaves Pep Guardiola’s legacy, wonder if other Premier League clubs will get retrospective titles, and look at what it means beyond football for the Premier League, the UK and the UAE.Aguerooooo (13 May 2012)The idea of neutrality in journalism, particularly sports journalism, is a preposterous one. Like secularism or having just one beer, it’s the adult version of believing Santa Claus is real. Ergo, it’s almost impossible to have a detached view of what it means for a lifelong Manchester United fan – even accounting for the post-colonial absurdity of supporting a club in the land of one’s former oppressors – to find City guilty.
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