Manchester City have written to every top-flight club rubbishing the Premier League’s statement and emailed summary after the pair’s legal battle on sponsorship rules concluded.
In an astonishing, unprecedented move which further underlines the civil war that has broken out in English football, the champions have accused league bosses of ‘misleading’ sides by providing ‘inaccuracies’.
City claimed a landmark victory after a tribunal found league rules around commercial deals with parties linked to club owners to be unlawful.
However, in a subsequent statement of more than 1,200 words on Monday, the Premier League downplayed the significance of the verdict.
They claimed that the tribunal had, on the whole, backed their Associated Party Transaction (APT) Rules but had ‘identified a small number of discrete elements…which do not, in current form, comply with competition and public law requirements’.
Manchester City have written to all 19 Premier League…