Man City lodges 'comprehensive' appeal after guilty verdict in financial rule-breaking scandal

AP – Manchester City has lodged a "comprehensive" appeal, the club confirmed on Friday, following the publication of a report by an independent commission detailing large-scale financial rule-breaking by the Premier League giant in one of English soccer's biggest scandals.

"The club's firm position," read a short statement from City, "is that, on multiple grounds, the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe."

City has protested its innocence throughout the long-running case, which dates back to 2018 and reached a milestone on Tuesday, when the Premier League published a verdict saying the Abu Dhabi-controlled club was "guilty of all charges related to serious breaches" of the competition's financial rules from 2009-18.