While the surprise begins to subside at Manchester City, the leading barrister Murray Rosen is forming an independent commission that will decide whether to prove if the reigning champions have committed more than 100 alleged breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules.
A timeframe remains impossible to predict and the technical, legal jargon used during the commission’s investigation will prove difficult for many football fans to decipher.
But, as the lawyer Stephen Taylor Heath of the JMW firm tells Mirror Football, the commission will not work like a typical court case.