devaney » Tue Feb 18, 2020 12:42 pm wrote:Not altogether sure that I subscribe to this way of thinking. Take F1 for example, if the winner of the race is subsequently disqualified due to winning by unfair means then everybody get moved up a place if the individual/team are found to have cheated by trying to abuse the rules. Personally I think that is a reasonable course of action. I don’t quite understand why anybody should think differently. What am I missing?
I don't really watch F1 that much so don't hold it against me if I'm mistaken, but I assume all of that happens right there and then in a single race, not throughout the course of a season, and the verdict isn't reached a couple of years later like it is in City's case. Also, when this happens in F1 (again, I'm assuming), it happens when the team/racers abuse the rules themselves, while in City's case their players or manager didn't abuse any footballing rules, it was Man City's administration that abused the rules of the governing body. I get what you're saying but it's a bit different IMO.
All in all, there's no need to get technical about anything. If, hypothetically, City get stripped of their titles, they will go to whomever was a runner-up to them and there's no way around that. But cheaters or not, I don't want their titles, I want us to win them the right way.