After a summer celebrating their first trophy in 35 years, City began preparing for life in the Champions League as Uefa’s FFP regulations took hold. This meant clubs were required to balance their books over three-year cycles, starting from 2011-12, with the first deadline in 2013.
With losses of £123.3m the previous season, City would have fallen foul of the new guidelines. And what would the punishment be for non-compliance?
Responsible for selling 35 million records worldwide, Snoop Dogg can now add record ticket sales to his resume.
The club have opened up sections of the away end because of the spike in interest, meaning not only have the ‘sold out’ signs gone up for the visit of Preston North End, the game is also set to see more Swansea fans in the ground than ever
So maybe you couldn’t watch the match, but you’ve seen the final score. You might also have looked at how many shots your team had, how many saves your keeper made, and how much possession your side managed. So far, so traditional, right?
But that doesn’t always tell the full story of how your team got on.
This is where our new feature called Match Momentum can help. It’s a
Oxford United, the 1986 League Cup winners, were in a slump, having dropped from the second tier to the fourth since 1999 – and were sliding down League Two when owner Firoz Kassam sacked Graham Rix.
Kassam, the club’s unpopular owner, invited out-of-work manager Chris Turner to watch their 1-0 defeat by Swansea – and most people thought he was the new manager, including the Oxford
