{"id":132291,"date":"2020-02-15T14:29:29","date_gmt":"2020-02-15T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/02\/15\/better-late-than-never-european-reaction-to-manchester-citys-ban\/"},"modified":"2020-02-15T14:29:29","modified_gmt":"2020-02-15T13:29:29","slug":"better-late-than-never-european-reaction-to-manchester-citys-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=132291","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Better late than never\u2019: European reaction to Manchester City\u2019s ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News of Manchester City\u2019s two-season Champions League ban hit the front pages around Spain, Italy and Germany\u201cBetter late than never,\u201d declared Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga. \u201cAt last Uefa is taking decisive measures. Imposing financial fair play rules and punishing financial doping is essential for the future of football.\u201d For Tebas, this was vindication and also just the start: he has long denounced what he calls \u201cstate-clubs\u201d, and he wants moves against PSG too. For others in Spain, the focus was turned more towards the immediate implications, although the news was equally huge: it was front page everywhere, exclamation marks underlining the shock. \u201cCity, out of Europe!\u201d said Marca. AS went for \u201cOUT\u201d, in English. \u201cBlow for City: two years without the Champions!\u201d said Sport. \u201cJaque al jeque,\u201d ran the cover of El Mundo Deportivo: check against the sheik. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2020\/feb\/15\/better-late-than-never-european-reaction-to-manchester-city-champions-league-ban\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Better late than never\u2019: European reaction to Manchester City\u2019s ban<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News of Manchester City\u2019s two-season Champions League ban hit the front pages around Spain, Italy and Germany\u201cBetter late than never,\u201d declared Javier Tebas, the president of La Liga. \u201cAt last Uefa is taking decisive measures. Imposing financial fair play rules and punishing financial doping is essential for the future of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}