manchester city denied that and a court of arbitration for sporn agreed, sayingester city did not skiesity funding data -- did not disguise equity funding but said they did n cooperate and are being fined 10 million euros, a tiny amount for a cl this size. let's speak to the sports editor for financial times. help us understand what the evidence was that meant the original ruling went one way and now this goes the other. guest: the investigators fought, like you said -- thought, like you said, that there was strong evidence that mancheste city had been disguising where it was getting its money from. this ruling does not quite exonerate manchester city, we have not seen the fool ruling yet, but -- the full ruling yet, ther it did not establish and there was not enough evidence, or they were time bound, suggesting there were five yeart in whiy could have brought this case and the time had run out. it has led to speculation that maybe what manchester city had done well, which was run out the clock on this before, the sanctions could apply. ros: i'm sure very good news for manchester city b