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Of course it would. I think many are approaching this question of appeal from the wrong end The IC is not a judicial body and it does not have any right to deny an appeal to a court. A properly constituted court may deny an appeal if it is not based on solid grounds eg a perverse judgement...

My understanding of projectriver's posts is certainly that the PL is going to have to present very compelling evidence indeed to the IC because of the gravity of the charges. He believes however that our case depends on the question of sponsorship and in particular the funding of the...

Platini originally saw debt as the problem and proposed to make clubs reduce levels of debt. This alarmed some of the "biggest" clubs in Europe (we both know which!) and they threatened legal action on the (accurate) grounds that debt was an accepted way of raising capital for investment in...

I don't think this is the case at all. If the ruling of the IC goes against City the club would go straight to court. The grounds of the appeal would almost certainly be (amongst others) that City had been found, in fact, to have broken the criminal law and that the IC has no jurisdiction in...

It was David Conn who said in one of his earlier works that football needed to be more businesslike but should never become just another business. The unfortunate thing is that no-one has ever been able to work out how you manage this and the gap was filled by UEFA, which saw opportunities to...

I do think that Abramovitch's purchase of Chelsea in 2005 really raised the stakes because the Glazers bought United in the same year, Chelsea soon did inflate the cost of transfers, won back to back PL titles and seemed destined to succeed in Europe too. Sheikh Mansour bought City in 2008 and...

The idea that football is EITHER a sport OR a business but cannot be both is clearly erroneous: it is, and always has been both. The days of amateurism can be seen as no more than a mechanism for ensuring that there were no player costs to consider but growing interest in the game helped make...

If Simon Jordan thinks he's better than Pep ... he can't possibly be. Besides, we all know Arteta is the manager of the year. All Pep's worth is an honourable mention.

I was quite impressed with Liverpool yesterday but not enough to give up on the league just yet! I've got a lot of time for Bournemouth's manager but find it hard to believe he's managed such a transformation in the time he's been there. I am sceptical about their position as second best form...

I think the media will rant on about dark forces interfering to ensure that City's cheating went unpunished is already well rehearsed.

I should add as well that there would be a good chance that the High Court may find that a "guilty" judgement at the IC might be found to have prejudiced any further consideration of the charges if based on grounds of reasonable doubt (just as some newspaper coverage of high profile events does)...

I don't know what details have to be given, but the whole business is opaque to say the least. Presumably City will have to be provided with the grounds on which the judgement is made and if City find that the commission considers the evidence furnishes conclusive proof (beyond all reasonable...

This is what Stefan and others have emphasised recently - that three man commission had better have very, very solid evidence indeed to find that the range of people and organisations involved have been complicit in fraud on such a scale and over such a time period. This has certainly sparked...

No, no, no. The PL will make a bald statement telling everybody the result of the committee's hearings. Our rivals will chooses to be convinced that City were guilty and should have been put out of business. Klopp will then make a public broadcast to tell us why this is a bad day for...

While the press debate whether a massive points deduction or expulsion from the PL is a fitting punishment for City's hideous crimes and Lord Chief Justice Jordan insists there is a case to answer a succession of mere football finance experts - Maguire, Ioannidis, Plumley and our own Stefan...

Just what I wanted to know. Thanks very much for a very full and considered reply. I conclude that any interpretation by the PL which lays us open to penalties would be controversial enough (in our eyes perverse enough!) to provide grounds for appeal.

Any charges of murder?

He sounds like an ideal candidate for a well paid job heading up the Post Office.

This is why we're lucky to have Stefan to be the "public face of Manchester City". We'd all react like you given the chance!

"We all just know"....