There is a huge sports news story to be told here, an independent panel of three well respected retired judges have issued a report and adjudication that suggests that the governing body of one of the most important sports leagues in the world is, at its most generous interpretation, utterly incompetent and chaotic or, much worse, utterly corrupt and in cahoots with a subset of clubs to disort and manipulate the competition. In many ways the fact it was City bringing the action is irrelevant to the real substance of the story.
But instead what we get from.significant portions of the press is the kind of crap Barney Ronay has served up today which has already been called out by multiple posters. The level of sophistry being employed to avoid writing the real story is an indication, with a few honourable exceptions, of just how bankrupt much of what passes for sports journalism in this country these days actually is.