There may be another motive for the legal challenge as City has been locked in litigation with the league for two years.
Since 1992 the Premier League has been funnelling previously unimagined wealth to the elite players, coaches and clubs of English football. For almost as long as it has existed, however, those running the league have battled to maintain the commercial and competitive balance on which its success is based. Competition is its essence, predictability a deadly enemy. Unlike Germany or Spain, the league has never been dominated by one or two clubs.
Were they to succeed, they would be free to blow up the already strained commercial balance of the league, and more fundamentally the uneasy but vital consensus on which its success is based. How the league is run Since its inception, the Premier League has been run by majority rule, set cannily at 14 of 20 clubs to avoid a traditional 'big six' holding sway.
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