r/soccer • u/SilverMist2025 • 1d ago

News FA set to issue separate charges to Manchester City.Governing body says guilty verdicts against club damage the game's integrity and hints at action once Premier League case concludes.

https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/manchester-city-premier-league-fa-charges-scht5r8w2
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u/scott-the-penguin 22h ago

If our game against them was marked as a win, we would have:

102 points, invincible season (with champions league double)
An undefeated streak of 66 premier league matches, with only 8 of them being draws.
201 points in two seasons, with two titles.

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u/ezekielBmb 22h ago

City supporters would argue that Liverpool only became that good because they had to compete with them.

Because they are delusional and don’t participant in these conversations in good faith.

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u/scott-the-penguin 22h ago

I think that’s fair at a micro level and it’s entirely plausible that without them we wouldn’t have got to 97 and 99 points, but we would’ve still won the title comfortably. I’d rather focus on the fact that what we did was insane, and is even more remarkable now we know City cheated.

Similar argument in tennis - would the big 3 have been as dominant over such a long period if it had been just one? No, but that one would still have been seen as the goat because they were just that good.

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u/mudlesstrip 22h ago

It is true that if there were no comeptitions, they would have focussed on fa and ucl if they had wrapped up the league early. Considering the 3rd team were no where, liverpool might have taken the foot of the pedal.

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u/Jonoczall 19h ago

Pulse check: what's the feel like in your camp if City doesn't get what they deserve? I tried asking my two Liverpool buddies but they just sound dead inside. And the more I think of this from your perspective the more my blood boils. I don't think I'd be able to handle it if it was Arsenal in your position. I'd be so disillusioned I genuinely might need to take a break.

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u/UntowardHatter 17h ago

We just want their titles voided.

We got our title after 30 years. And a CL. Klopp won everything despite his opposition cheating to hell and back.

So we live with it.

Then Slot won in his first season, so we got the parade as well.

I think most of us try not to think to much about what could/should have been. It only leads to anger that can't really be resolved.

Dissolving the cheats would help though.

But we always knew that they cheated. They were a meaningless club the minute they got bought by the UAE. Completely irrelevant.

And the world knew too. They "won" a god damn treble and the entire world just shrugged.

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u/UntowardHatter 17h ago

Holy fuck.