Manchester City fans have every right to be fuming.
Having woken up on Monday trying to put a disappointing defeat at Tottenham behind them, before lunchtime they were being told they could soon be travelling to play Torquay as punishment for being the biggest cheats English football has ever seen. Once more, the club is at war with a major governing body and the fans have had nothing to do with it.
Either City bosses have committed grave financial offences to dupe the Premier League for almost a decade and gain an unfair sporting advantage, or the Premier League have David Brented it - hopelessly overreached in an attempt to prove they could be both a friend and a boss and accused one of their most high-profile members of rule breaches that will stain their reputation for years without having the evidence to prove it. Someone, somewhere has fundamentally cast a serious cloud over the club without thinking at all about the supporters.
