English football can punish Manchester City for violations, but can Premier League ever recover what was lost?

Getty Images The first beams of sunlight are breaking through the cloud that has hung over the Premier League for three and a half years, and yet the damning verdict meted out on Manchester City by an independent panel has done little to cut through the fog that surrounds the past, present and future of England’s top flight. That City insist they are still waiting for the panel’s final decision and the Premier League are yet to make a formal statement is a reminder that the expectation of a guilty verdict in 114 of 115 charges does not bring this…