Ownership Matters: Football Must Put Integrity Before Wealth In recent days, MUST has been asked by a number of media organisations to set out our view following reports that Manchester City have been found guilty of the overwhelming majority – reportedly 114 out of 115 – of the Premier League charges brought against them. Manchester City continue to deny wrongdoing and are expected to appeal. They are entitled to do so. But if these findings are upheld, this cannot be dismissed as an accounting error or an accidental breach of complex rules. It would amount to industrialised cheating on an unprecedented scale. For years MUST has argued that ownership matters in football. At Manchester United we have seen one form of bad ownership: the Glazers loading the Club with enormous debt while extracting hundreds of millions of pounds through dividends, interest and associated costs. Read the full statement here: imust.org.uk/Blog/Entry/owne…