EPL charges Man City with over 100 financial rules breaches

Which equates to a slap on the wrist in the Premier League.

In some ways this situation is very similar to the film The Untouchables which I recently rewatched.

If someone buys a club and wants to spend whatever they want on players, etc then really shouldn't that just be allowed? As long as due diligence is done to ensure that the perspective owner actually has the money, then is there really any harm done?

In itself, probably not. But then once they've set up all those FFP fair spending rules (e.g. percentage of turnover, etc) then you've got play by them (even if in themselves, these rules are just to try and maintain the status of certain clubs) or face the consequences.

To look at the Al Capone analogy - Sure, on one hand he was just helping folks enjoy a drink or two, since it had been outrageously outlawed. However, we can still righteously cheer on Costner and Connery (even although we know the mob wasn't really doing any harm) as they are enforcing the law, which Capone and co knew full well they're breaking.

Same thing with City. There's no way they wouldn't have know what they were up to. For a full, Hollywood style ending they should really be stripped of all titles they won within the period in question and be demoted to the fourth tier.

Of course that will not happen. As per the Champions League investigation, a small fine is the best we can hope for.

There's so many big clubs in Europe dealing with such obscene amounts of money I just can't bring myself to give a fuck about this.