Manchester City today won a landmark legal victory against the Premier League after judges ruled that some of the competition's sponsorship rules are unlawful. City, which is owned by a firm linked to Abu Dhabi's ruling family, are currently facing 115 charges of breaking Premier League financial rules in a separate legal case. City are expected to seek costs and damages while the Premier League are expected to have to amend or dump the system entirely. The panel ruled the league was wrong to reject, under APT rules, a wide-ranging new sponsorship deal City had lined up with Etihad late last year. Within the ruling it also emerged that Arsenal, Manchester United, Liverpool, and West Ham gave evidence in favour of the Premier League, along with Brentford, Bournemouth, Fulham, and Wolves.
