Seeing so much disinformation about the Man City case timeline. Especially from Talksport and its stooges. No-one outside the parties and independent judiciary knows the timeline because there are multiple processes and flexibility in how they are carried out. This is my hypothesis… 1) Man City launched Section X arbitration against the Commission and Appeal Board’s determination that the decision was a publishable “Final Award”. I suspect they will ask the Section X panel to postpone a sanctions hearing until after the appeal of the decision. And although I actually agree with City that the decision shouldn’t have been labelled a final award, I also suspect they will / have already lost. The rules are not in City’s favour and the bar is far too high for them to get a Section X panel to intervene. This is a dead end. Hopefully it’s already done. 2) The Independent Commission won’t wait for the Appeal Board when it comes to sanctioning. They have no reason to delay and they’ll be doing Man City no favours after the club tried to con them with a fake defence. I suspect we’ll hear sanctions in the November Intl Break. Any truly irreversible sanctions (such as match suspension or recommended expulsion) will be deferred until post-appeal. But a major points deduction will be applied immediately, especially given both precedent and the reality is it will stop City trying to delay the Appeal. I believe the sanctions will be issued before the appeal commences and will be rolled into it (so they’re appealing the decision and the sanctions, per normal) 3) The Appeal timeline will be varied from the standard timelines but with City on negative points, they’ll have no cause to delay it and we’ll hear an outcome before the end of the season. 4) Man City might seek a Section X appeal after that (we wouldn’t know) but all sanctions other than a recommendation to expel won’t be deferred further. They’ll take hold right after the appeal. 5) The PL will then charge Man City with another 100+ charges for 2018/19-2024/25 and offer them a settlement (which will likely involve the UAE selling up and the existing APTs taking a major haircut). Again - the above is all just a hypothesis. The actual way forward is not public. But now folks don’t need to ask me what I think anymore.

PL haven’t leaked a single fact about the case. Even telling the clubs was allowed by the rules. All this leaking by City, in which they spread clear misinformation too, will be added to the next tranche of charges and likely be a further aggravating factor for their sanctions.