Manchester City’s guilty verdict brings football’s great sell-off crashing to earth
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What happened
On the day Andy Burnham spoke of the wrong turn Britain took under Thatcher, football was facing a day of reckoning over its own story of corporate acquisition 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. I was there, and read the astonishing 40 pages of…
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