Man City 'guilty' Financial Fair Play verdict will offer Arsenal vindication but little else

Have you heard of Adam Nelson? Unless you're one of the rare people who fall between the Venn diagram of football and shot putting, then the answer is probably not.

The American competed in the 2004 Olympics where he won silver only to find out that — Yuriy Bilonog, the Ukrainian who had beaten him to first place in Athens — had in fact been found guilty of doping nine years later. Bilonog got to stand atop a podium with his national anthem playing in front of adoring crowds in the Greek capital. Nelson later received his gold medal in an airport food court.

Sport is littered with hundreds if not thousands of these cases where winners have been found to have cheated after the fact. Each time it tries to correct the injustice, but each time it ultimately fails.

Nelson will never get to hear the Star Spangled Banner blaring out in front of his friends, family, teammates and supporters. He was robbed of the reward that comes for all the sacrifices athletes make to become the very best in their sport. Arsenal could fall in to the same category.

Manchester City are once again under the spotlight after UEFA chief Aleksander Ceferin reaffirmed his organisation's stance that their allegations that City breached its Financial Fair Play restrictions are «right.» City vehemently deny this, but with Pep Guardiola's side facing 115 further charges from the Premier League, potential sanctions are a hot topic right now.

It's worth noting that those hoping for swift justice against City are likely to be left disappointed. Many have drawn an equivalence between the 10 point deduction that Everton received for one breach of Premier League profit and sustainability regulations and assumed that City are therefore in line for an even heftier