£900m in ‘sham contracts’ and ‘disguised funding.’ The Premier League and the Independent Commission used this wording when referring to Manchester City’s guilty verdict on 114 charges of violating Premier League financial rules. Over the past week, Manchester City has been at the centre of arguably the biggest club football scandal since Calciopoli in 2006. The central question is whether this verdict, if upheld, could have consequences beyond football, even affecting Britis