Nottinghamshire

Nick Mashiter
Football reporter

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Oliver Glasner should return to Crystal Palace on Sunday as a hero.

With the Eagles he won the FA Cup, Europa Conference League and the Community Shield to etch his name into Selhurst Park history. His final match in charge was that 1-0 win over Rayo Vallecano in Leipzig in May.

Yet his summer move to Nottingham Forest, after opting to leave Palace at the of last season, has left his legacy tarnished in the eyes of Eagles fans.

A new modern-day rivalry means the reception he gets when Forest travel to Selhurst Park on Sunday could be mixed.

Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis is currently suing Palace over a banner which was unfurled by home supporters at Selhurst Park last season.

That animosity grew from when Forest took Palace's spot in the Europa League for 2025-26 due to Palace breaching Uefa's multi-club ownership rules.

Of course, that inadvertently helped Glasner lift the Europa Conference League, following Palace's demotion into that competition.

Because of that success and others - leaving him as the most successful manager in Palace's history - the Austrian deserves to be lauded in south London on Sunday afternoon.

Palace owner Steve Parish has urged fans to give him a "fantastic reception" and ignore the "pantomime narratives".

He is right, Glasner left and moved on to something else, that is the nature of the game. He is not the first and will not be the last.

Of course part of football is tribal rivalry but Glasner deserves to be recognised for what he achieved, not to be painted as the villain after so much success with Palace.

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A number of Premier League clubs want Manchester City to be hit with both "retrospective punishments" and sanctions for the future for their mass financial rule-breaking, sources have told BBC Sport.

An independent commission found City guilty of all charges relating to breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons.

City have appealed against the verdict, while the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) is poised to look at the findings to see if there may be any suggestions of potential misconduct.

However, there is said to be a consensus among a group of top-flight club executives that if City's appeal is unsuccessful, the sanctions should make reparations for the period when they broke the rules, while also limiting their powers in future.

There is also a feeling from at least four Premier League boardrooms that a "one-hit" points deduction resulting in relegation to the Championship would be an insufficient punishment given the severity of City's wrongdoing.

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Content creator and Nottingham Forest fan Ellie Molloson gives her damning verdict on the charges against Manchester City: "As a Nottingham Forest fan, I don't want to see Manchester City back in the Premier League for at least 10 years.

"In the 2023-24 season, Forest were given a four-point deduction for breaching financial fair play and profitability and sustainability rules.

"We got a four-point deduction, and we were in a really scary relegation battle that season.

"For a considerable chunk of the season, those four points were going to send us down. Admittedly, the football wasn't great. However, we needed every point that we got.

"Man City did not co-operate with the Premier League, and City actively hid up to £900m in revenue that they did not earn. £900m across nine seasons...

"Man City had nine seasons of stolen memories, stolen trophies. They do not deserve the credit they have been given."

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