Man City charges LIVE: £9m hotshot lawyer signs up as 'severe' punishment demand made

Hello and welcome to the MEN's Manchester City charges live blog for Tuesday, October 13. City continue to maintain their innocence, having lodged an appeal on their guilty verdict as Premier League football fans await the final outcome on 114 alleged breaches of financial rules and regulations between 2009 and 2018. That hasn't prevented fans and pundits speculating what the club's punishment should be if they fail in their challenging of an independent panel's findings, however, with calls for the club to be relegated from the English top flight.