Do we know PRECISELY what this rule change involves? It would appear very likely that it introduces the notion of "associated parties", but we don't know exactly what this term means. We suspect, but again don't know whether it is as clearly discriminatory as we believe. It is claimed that City are threatening a legal challenge but again we don't know. It could be Newcastle, or, indeed, any other PL club that sees the regulation as anti-competitive, because the claim that a level playing field can be established or maintained through tampering with sponsorship is nonsense. But I would suggest that if a legal challenge is actually threatened the club in question must be very sure of its ground.
