Both Man City and Paris Saint-Germain breached football's financial regulations, but the Gulf state rivals could not have dealt with scrutiny more differently, writes IAN HERBERT

Around Qatari-owned Paris Saint-Germain , everyone has been terribly circumspect about Manchester City these past few weeks. Neither on nor off the record will anyone betray a sense of schadenfreude or pleasure about the reputational damage their cheating has heaped on Qatar’s arch Gulf rival Abu Dhabi. But it’s hard to avoid the sense that those arriving with defending champions PSG for the Champions League tie at Manchester City on Wednesday night will consider City’s conviction on all serious charges of financial manipulation to be anything less than comeuppance.