“Because a never-ending waterfall of legal claims and uncertainties for another four or five years would be absolutely appalling for the game.”

BBC Radio 4 Today programme · Sep 25 · Man City found guilty of most of 115 charges; Purslow warns of legal spiral

“If you add all those claims up, over nine years, and that's just in the Premier League, you can see that the potential here for this to spiral out of control is huge.”

BBC Radio 4 Today programme · Sep 25 · Man City found guilty of most of 115 charges; Purslow warns of legal spiral