A UK football watchdog has suggested that Manchester City's owners could be removed from the English game following a monumental verdict. With the club found guilty of all 115 financial charges and artificially inflating revenues by nearly £900 million over a decade,

On the day Andy Burnham spoke of the wrong turn Britain took under Thatcher, football was facing a day of reckoning over its own story of corporate acquisition

The IFR was founded last year and could now play a part in potential sanctions that are to come from the verdict.

The independent commission's verdict against Manchester City has "significant implications for the integrity of the game", according to the Football Association.

The Man City case has turned football upside down and touched other industries, including politics after prime minister Andy Burnham’s comments, but, as Miguel Delaney details after years of reporting on the scandal,

City disrupted the rest of the top flight with the players they signed after their 2008 takeover, and these examples show how

Phil Foden was sent off for a kick out at Bruno Fernandes, who kicked him first in a first-half skirmish that left City with 10 men for the final 67 minutes.