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Disguised funding and dishonest witnesses: findings in Manchester City case

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The commission calculated that, over the course of the nine seasons under investigation, from 2009-10 to 2017-18, City had booked £949.94m in sponsorship revenues from Abu Dhabi-based companies.

The report’s most important sentence, shortened and in plain words. How

Those ambitions could not be met by the finances then being generated. The commission broke the charges into four blocks and once the first had been proven a domino effect ensued.

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