Manchester City are effectively challenging an appeal panel to question the legitimacy of official Abu Dhabi government documents as they seek to prove their innocence, a report has revealed.
City claimed to have “irrefutable evidence” of their innocence even before they were found guilty of more than 100 major financial rule breaches and have continued to point to that same body of evidence ahead of their formal appeal, with club officials unashamedly confident that they will ultimately win this case.
