Manchester City's judgement day -- or at least the first of many days -- has finally arrived. As sources first told ESPN back in August, the long-awaited hearing into the club's 115 charges for allegedly breaching the Premier League's financial rules starts on Monday, Sept. 16 and the stakes, for both the league and its reigning champions, are huge.
The reputations of both are on the line. If City, who strongly deny all charges, are found by an independent panel to be guilty of the catalogue of charges, their success since the 2008 takeover by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al Nahyan of Abu Dhabi will be irrevocably tainted.