The Fiver | Assuming the rules of FFP only applied to nouveau pauvre clubs

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The Fiver doesn’t really do empathy. A largely inadequate teatime email, devoted exclusively to the satisfaction of our grubby urges, we usually couldn’t care less about anyone or anything else. You may have discerned as much from our increasingly half-ar$ed, will-this-do, is-it-do-1-o’clock-yet output. So imagine our surprise when we found ourselves feeling both empathy and sympathy for Manchester City over the weekend!

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