We’ve all seen the emails Len. They’re guilty.

From the CAS decision "...the adjudicatory committee “wrongly assumed that the criminally obtained documents are genuine”, when they said it was obvious that at least some of the documents have been “edited to achieve a particular presentation”.

City also made the claim, accepted by CAS, that some of the financial “arrangements” discussed in the email had never come to fruition. I'm not sure they're the smoking gun everyone thinks they are.

I’m currently reading the CAS report and you’re being very careful which bits you quote. A city director basically says “we conspired but didn’t go through with it” and CAS took his word for it. The original email City submitted matched those hacked. The editing bit was just the newspaper.

Spoiler alert - paragraphs 234 to 273 are where you'll find all the references to "no evidence" and "insufficient evidence".

I’m assuming nothing of the sort.

So why would they get a slap on the wrist if not guilty?

The number of charges makes it more likely. I’m sure they’d accept a few small ones even if they could fight them all.

I think a fair outcome would be a hefty fine and a forced name change to Manchester Cheats