Manchester City have launched their latest legal assault on the Premier League – via challenging its attempt to amend sponsorship rules.
Last year, the four-in-a-row champions triumphed over the competition when a tribunal found that Associated Party Transaction (APT) regulations – designed to stop clubs from signing inflated commercial deals with firms linked to their owners and introduced following the Saudi-led takeover of Newcastle United – contravened competition law.
Despite numerous objections from City, clubs voted by 16 to 4 to back Premier League plans to amend rather than rewrite the rules in November.