Court publishes written reasons for overturning Manchester City's Uefa ban

Manchester City ‘may have avoided lengthy appeal process with earlier Uefa cooperation’

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Manchester City may have been able to avoid their European ban and the lengthy appeal process needed to overturn it had they been more forthcoming during UEFA’s original case against them, according to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

Earlier this month, CAS overturned the two-year ban and reduced a fine of 30 million euros (£27million) to 10 million euros (£9million), saying that most of the alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play rules were either not established or time-barred.