The perpetrators of the largest financial cheating scandal in sports history performed as you’d expect them to, as they attempt to obstruct and disrupt the ongoing legal process to hold them accountable, allowing them to consolidate their footballing power in the meantime in a desperate attempt to mitigate the consequences of their blatant and unashamed cheating. Classless winners, even more sore losers, all around unsportsmanlike, cheating scum. I’ve waited to pass my own judgement on City fans so far, as I expect this would complicate and cloud lots of feelings toward the club for any fans. But with each passing day, they seem to demonstrate total complicity and approval of the massive cheating and fraud their club has perpetrated. Are there a handful of “good ones” out there? Certainly, shoutout @olivia and @der_raumdeuter of course, but I suppose I should have expected nothing less from the plastic supporters of a club like City, run by people with so much ego, and such a blatant disregard for the rules of competition. At every turn, City have believed themselves to be bigger than the league, bigger than the sport, and bigger than any consequences that may come. This arrogance has infected much of the fanbase, which is where my real disappointment lies now. Have you truly no shame at all? How embarrassing… Ultimately, this result is largely meaningless, and that’s the most frustrating and angering part of this whole disgusting mess. Years of our collective lives, years of Premier League competitions, years of football results are simply null. Millions of memories robbed, careers wasted, and clubs punished for the sin of fair play. I’ve never been one to lose my head about rivals, but when you see how important football is to people, to the world, you can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of anger and injustice. City have robbed us of everything football is about, and I pity the kids who’ve grown up and known nothing else. Fuck you, Manchester City