So here we are. The latest stage of this saga.
Bird your loins and don your tin hats fellow Blues as whichever way this goes we will be the subject of negative headlines.
If the verdict upholds the ban in whole or reduces it we will be branded cheats and expect headlines trashing City, the trolls piling it on and expressing the hate as they enjoy the spectacle and are ecstatic that they will qualify undeservedly through their performance.
If the verdict throws out the AC findings and ban we will be branded cheats that only used clever lawyers to escape punishment and expect headlines trashing City, the trolls piling it on and expressing the hate as they enjoy the spectacle and are bitching at how unfair it is that they won’t qualify undeservedly. UEFA made sure they leaked enough to ensure the club would always be regarded as guilty irrespective of this process.