It was a seemingly innocuous email, sent on a Wednesday morning in January 2017, that started everything.
Arriving in the inbox of a senior official at Manchester City, it appeared to have been sent by an employee from European football’s governing body, UEFA, and contained a link to a financial compliance report.
The City official clicked the download button. That was all it took.
It was not a genuine email from UEFA but a successful phishing attempt by Portuguese hacker and activist Rui Pinto. City’s servers were breached, allowing Pinto to retrieve thousands of emails and documents from the club’s systems.
This week, almost 10 years on from Pinto’s first email, the Premier League announced that an independent panel had found City guilty of all but one of the charges against them, as The Athletic first revealed last Friday.
📝 @jwhitey98: https://t.co/iZ74j9gKJE
Signed in under 48 hours: How Chelsea signed English-record £117m Morgan Rogers from Aston Villa.
🏴Influence from Reece James and Cole Palmer,
🤝Key relationships between clubs,
🔴Arsenal wanted Rogers but not at that price,
❓Too many players? PSR?
https://t.co/XObGojwGAF
🗣️ Jurgen Klopp to MagentaTV on Jonathan Tah's disallowed goal. "If the goal is illegal, then Arsenal won't be English champions. They've scored 60 percent of their goals that way."
On Alonso to Chelsea: analysed his work at Sociedad, Leverkusen & Madrid to see how he might set this Chelsea side up. Could’ve write another 2000 words but went into his principle-first approach, why he isn’t strict on a back 3 & which players may thrive. https://t.co/355DusSTz3
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