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Originally Posted by Bagor
No. That doesn't seem about right at all. What are you trying to say that Unitef/Liverpool led the other four clubs into this mess? Levy is a big boy. He very much knew what he was doing.
As for a blanket ban for the next three years for all six teams that's not equally fair either given you're looking at punishing United, Liverpool, City and Chelsea by denying them access to a competition that they're inclined to qualify for whereas Spurs and Arsenal get off lighter?
It's a case here of the reward was going to be the same for all. Punishment should be the same.
Banned for the next x times of qualifying for the CL.
If it takes some teams three years to complete the ban and others eight so be it.
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I have no idea who the actual ringleaders/initiators were. But if a couple owners pushed this forward and basically threatened other clubs into joining or being left behind, they absolutely deserve a bigger punishment. The other clubs who caved are still complicit. Early reports make it look like Juve, Real, Barca, Liverpool and Man U are at the core of it.
Anyway I hope it is a moot point. As everyone in the uk is saying today, what is really needed are systematic changes to make sure it doesn't happen again. Or they will try again somewhere down the line.