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[Marc O'Reachtaire @o_reachtaire]

This Micah Richards narrative that the players had no idea Man City they were cheating is the biggest load of nonsense I ever heard, also Guardiola knew and was complicit, he has been a serial cheat his entire life

[Annemarie Dray @AnnemarieDray]

All I’m saying is having a team that’s guilty of 114 financial charges with a manager giving fist pumps on the touchline and a supporter base singing ‘we’ll cheat when we want’ top of the league is a pretty terrible look for the @premierleague

[Melissa Reddy @MelissaReddy_]

How long is the stench of the “sham” going to corrode the meaning, worth, and very essence of the Premier League?

Listening to commentary about Manchester City’s players matching the defiance of their ownership and triumphing in adversity.

Listening to fans chorusing the names of the men running the club, wearing masks or displaying banners of their faces and jibing: “We’re Man City, we’ll cheat when we want.”

Victory being framed as “a lovely moment,” a show of togetherness as though some grave injustice has been imposed on City, rather than their hierarchy being found by an independent commission to have orchestrated financial doping on an industrial scale.

Their opponents and the rest of us wondering if any of this actually matters now and how much of it ever did?

There can be no business as usual pretence. We need a full stop to the absurdity.

[Big Timi @OrevaZSN]

We underestimate how much human potential gets crushed by the struggle to survive. Somewhere, there’s a genius working double shifts who hasn’t had the energy to create anything in months because they’re too fucking exhausted just trying to stay afloat.

[Oliver Holt @OllieHolt22]

The Premier League's descent into a farce of a season began in earnest this afternoon. What a mess. City top of a league they may be kicked out of in a few months. It felt like another bad day for English football today.

[François Plateau @francoisplateau]

There’s something sinister about watching a team caught cheating play week in, week out in a competition where they’ve been found guilty of 114 out of 115 charges. It makes a mockery of the competition and, frankly, makes the whole thing look like a joke.

[Henry Winter @henrywinter]

What an absolute mess of a season, a complete farce. Are Manchester City in a title race or a relegation battle? Football is resilient, the PL will survive, City will survive, but this dispute is deeply damaging. The sooner the process - appeal/sanctions - decided the better.

[HandofArsenal @HandofArsenal]

Genuinely feels soulless watching them play. Atleast last season there was rivalry, this just feels like a waste of everyones time.

“The fans and players havent done anything” Look at how smug they are acting.

Genuine disgrace they are allowed to play in the Premier League.

[The Different Knock 🏆 @DiffKnock]

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You’ll be calling your agent the moment the sanctions drop mate

Enjoy it while it lasts

[Sam Pilger @sampilger]

Until Manchester City are sanctioned for their decade-long cheating every one of their goals and every one of their wins this season will be meaningless. The Premier League also remains hugely damaged for as long as this "sham" continues.

[JB™️ @gunnerpunner]

Every single goal City score, and every single time their players celebrate with those smug grins, and every single chant from their fans about it, damages the Premier League’s integrity and brand.

[B/R Football @brfootball]

Only one word on the mind for Liverpool fans at Anfield 🗣️

[UnitedMuppetiers @Muppetiers]

Hey @premierleague your league is being dominated by cheats guilty of 114 charges why are we still playing games without sanctions?

[Terry Flewers @terryflewers]

CHEATS CHEATS CHEATS CHEATS

[James Pearce @JamesPearceLFC]

It's a victory that is likely to mean absolutely nothing in a couple of months when City get their punishment for nearly a decade of cheating. What a mess the Premier League is in.

[WelBeast @WelBeast]

I can’t believe they’re still allowed to play in the league and continue ruining more lives.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Nothing will keep this story and the pressure for sanctions stronger than Man City continually winning and being dominant. It’s going to be the season-long drumbeat. Even more so if they did know in summer about this and went even harder in transfer market as a result.

[Wayne Barton @WayneSBarton]

When you see Erling Haaland scoring and the City fans celebrating as if the club has been persecuted and not been found to be the biggest cheats in football history, you understand why everything that now happens - a continued product of the cheating - badly stains the league

[J D @Tottenham1886]

@AdamJoseph And the manager and fans showed zero decorum today, in fact revelling in it, disgusting, send them down now, chant CHEATS across the land

[Adam @AdamJoseph]

English football has no chance at reclaiming it's integrity with City in the Premier League. None, zero. It has felt like that for years & worse since the verdict was announced. Until they are sanctioned & expelled, this is what the PL will be. An awful, empty, terrible feeling.