Manchester City’s confidence is infectious. The underfire club reacted to the guilty verdict delivered by an independent panel by defiantly declaring their innocence and stressing: “The Premier League process remains ongoing, with significant elements uncompleted.”
The rhetoric was so convincing even a spokesperson for the U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham considered the matter to be far from closed. “If wrongdoing is established...” a statement read. It had to be subsequently altered to, “Wherever wrongdoing is established...”
