{"schema":"hottub-news/story/v1","story":"st_dxg4wczv7linhcoypplq","title":"Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson","title_en":null,"outlets":1,"brief":null,"page":"https://hottub.news/stories/sham-city-verdict-on-financial-breaches-is-damning-and-punishment-must-dxg4wczv7l","count":1,"items":[{"id":"n_dxg4wczv7linhcoypplq","seq":768143,"kind":"article","title":"Sham City: verdict on financial breaches is damning and punishment must be severe | Jonathan Wilson","url":"https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/sep/29/manchester-city-financial-breaches-verdict-premier-league","summary":"How can Manchester City be trusted under its current owners? There is a good argument for Premier League expulsion How bad could it be, really? How serious can a breach of arcane financial regulations be, really? Just how damning can accountancy be? Even after Friday’s revelation that Manchester City had been found guilty of all but one of the charges brought against them by the Premier League, it was perhaps difficult to grasp the scale of what that meant. After the…","published":"2026-09-29T20:30:10Z","seen":"2026-09-29T21:03:35Z","lang":"en","source":{"id":"kite-theguardian-com-4ab56e","name":"theguardian.com","domain":"theguardian.com","outlet":{"wikidata":"Q11148","name":"The Guardian","type":"newspaper","country":"GB","designations":["daily newspaper","newspaper"]}},"via":"kite-theguardian-com-4ab56e","topics":["soccer","manchester city","football","sport","football politics"],"authors":["Jonathan Wilson"],"entities":[{"id":"Q3809964","name":"Jonathan Wilson","type":"person"}],"image":"https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/7dae953ec1472f0847eb7fa49af4db2161d57aed/289_0_2662_2129/master/2662.jpg?auto=format&fit=max&quality=85&s=f6b3605b44464f2fa5fff36797309d58&width=140","story":"st_dxg4wczv7linhcoypplq","category":"crime-law","category_p":0.4000000059604645,"category2":"politics","sentiment":"negative","tone":-0.800000011920929,"political":0.550000011920929}]}