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How do we punish Manchester City? Many other football fans and I have discussed this a lot this week since the club was found guilty of 115 breaches of Premier League financial rules

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The initial ideas for punishments started off with the obvious (points deduction, transfer bans) but have come to resemble some medieval torture device of a forfeit for a football club. Forced to play home games at Old Trafford? Must begin in the first qualification round of the FA Cup? Take your pick while you can.

A disclaimer is that I do not hate Manchester City and its fans. I grew up supporting Arsenal in a time when Manchester United were the irritatingly rich and dominant team. Spurs are our local rivals. City were, instead, a club who yo-yoed between the leagues and I liked them for the cult appeal of players like Shaun Goater, Georgi Kinkladze and Ali Benarbia.

Their status in everybody’s minds changed on August 31, 2008, when Abu Dhabi United Group took........

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