Man City legal fight could spiral out of control - Purslow
Manchester City's legal fight with the Premier League has the potential to "spiral out of control" a former top club executive has warned.
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"It's a sort of 'where does this end?' because if you look at every single season - the nine seasons which we now know Manchester City breached rules - then all of their 19 Premier League rivals in that season, to differing extents, suffered easy-to-compute loss."
— Christian Purslow , Executive
"I think most football fans will be feeling that this is not a good moment for football as a whole and I think Manchester City fans will be feeling very, very anxious about what happens next."
— Lisa Nandy , Politician
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Manchester City's legal fight with the Premier League has the potential to "spiral out of control" a former top club executive has warned.
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