00:00The Premier League's legal case against Manchester City was the most recent in a series of disputes involving its clubs.
00:07Manchester World's Michael Plant analysed which clubs supported each side.
00:12All the clubs that voted gave evidence in City's favour.
00:18It was Chelsea and Newcastle who I mentioned who both, like City, have links obviously to countries from the Gulf region.
00:26But also Everton who feel that they have been wronged by the Premier League in the last year due to the double points deduction last season.
00:34And you mentioned in the clubs who have given evidence in favour for the Premier League.
00:40They include Manchester United, Liverpool, Arsenal and Tottenham.
00:43I mean arguably the four clubs who would most benefit from Manchester City's fall from grace I suppose or falling from their lofty position that they're currently at.
00:55Charles Higg Jones then analysed how this case fits in with the others.
01:00It's a case that goes back quite a while. There's multiple factors and moments where there has been a massive divide.
01:09I struggle really to find a reason to put that down to.
01:13I think there's so many different ongoings in England's top flight, whether it's the officiating as you mentioned
01:20or the massive cases against these clubs and whether it led to Everton's points deduction.
01:26Chelsea's scandal with spending over a billion pounds since Tom Boda came in and there's nothing being done there.
01:32So surely something in the future will come out in the works there.
01:35You have Newcastle's situation with the Saudi Arabian consortium who's taken over that club and come into those.
01:43It's quite tough to pin something to just put it down to.
01:49But there's multiple cases now where you do see a huge divide in the league and clubs are going against each other
01:57for the league or against them, as you say, against the clubs that are going for it.
02:02So you don't really know how to react.
02:04I'm sure the Premier League are in a difficult position themselves to try and get a bit of unity together.
02:11Obviously, if you look back across the years, it sort of led to the failing of the England national team when Premier League teams were so divided.
02:21You know, you hear stories how the Chelsea boys wouldn't sit with the Man United and Arsenal players at England camp, for example.
02:29So there's massive changes and the Premier League has really worked hard on getting a bit of togetherness.
02:36And maybe that's a big factor in why England national sides are doing a lot better now as well, because the teams are more together.
02:43But when it comes to legal moments and cases like that, there is a huge divide.
02:49And, you know, the Premier League will have to be working out solutions to try and unify the group that are in the division at that time.
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