Probably will get stick for this, but after nearly 20 years, I want it fair and square. I want it through sweat and tears and through our sheer hard work, not because of some cheap luck. I’d rather Man City if they are guilty that they get dropped significant points this season than their title revoked from last season’s PL win. That is done and dusted and the FA should own up to it for taking long to do something about it.
Agreed, and the entire idea that stripping City’s titles = giving them retroactively to the 2nd place finisher is dumb. Remove City from the equation in a particular season and everything about a season changes. 2nd place didn’t win the title, and there’s no guarantee that they would have if City hadn’t existed in the PL. Whole season just gets an asterisk if it’s up to me, nobody gets credited with the win.
Same deal for example in baseball for the 2017 Astros win, in no scenario whatsoever should the Dodgers be awarded the World Series trophy, even if the title had been stripped from the Astros. 2017 just doesn’t have a World Series winner in that case, with the note being one of the teams cheated. But the Dodgers didn’t “win” the trophy, and it’s impossible to know if they would have if Houston hadn’t cheated.