To be honest, I blame Everton more for what happened there than I blame Masters. City are proof that if you go toe to toe with these bastards on a legal basis its easy to wrap them up in all sots of red tape and threats of litigation to make sure nothing ever comes of it.

We didn't do that, we thought the best course of action would be to try and work with the EPL to come up with an acceptable solution. Naively believing we would be treated better if we did.

The first thing Moshiri and Co. should have done when the charges came about should have been to get on the blower to City to ask for the contact details of the lawyers and negotiators they have been using and then gone from there.

I'd like to think that should we be in the same position again in the future (and we will), TFG won't be so stupid as to take the same route as before.