Sanctioned Manchester City, the problem of football will remain the same

BarcelonaThe Premier League investigation that will lead to sanctions against Manchester City is the biggest in the history of this tournament. From the Premier League, they accuse the club, among other things, of having made the investigation so difficult that it ended up extending for a period longer than the First World War. More than five years. little joke You don’t need to be an expert to understand that when a club has a state like the United Arab Emirates behind it, it is prepared to play very hard to succeed. We have seen it with the Saudis or with Qatar, which has managed to organize the World Cup and buy PSG.

It’s one thing to know how to play with the rules and laws to win, and quite another to break them. Modern football is like that. If you lift the mats you find shit. Not just at clubs owned by Persian Gulf fortunes. Look at Juventus, owned by the Agnellis. Look at Barça and everything that has happened there in recent years, managed by our neighbors. At Manchester City they defend their innocence and wonder why this possible sanction by a league, the Premier, which like all sports bodies tries to clean up its dirt at home. In sport there is a collective allergy to letting independent entities such as ordinary justice be the ones to impose order. It happens with FIFA and the IOC.

For many people, the possible punishment at City means a stab in the heart. The English club is that of Guardiola, the coach who for many, starting with a server, embodies a magnificent way of seeing football. That some of his achievements were raised thanks to cheating would break his heart. He does so much. If they have broken the laws, let them be punished. Now, one can’t shake the feeling that if you research the history of big football clubs, you almost always find that players were signed by businessmen who went above and beyond the law. Let’s not forget that, as has happened with Qatar winning the World Cup, these states have done nothing more than see the cheats that we Europeans have always committed and have decided to play the same game but with more money. Sanctioned City, the problem would not end. The problem with sports is that moving so much money always attracts people, companies and governments with little morals. People who, seeing the City penalty, won’t decide to get along. On the contrary, they will think of how to take advantage of their fall from grace and how to cheat themselves without being caught. It’s happened before and it’s still happening now, we can all make a list of big European clubs run in a way that stinks, and it shouldn’t be that different from City’s. Perhaps a new, more independent way of overseeing and judging world sport would be needed. Leagues and entities like FIFA never fully get away with it. Maybe they don’t care, who knows.

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