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Man City's major sponsor Etihad threatens legal action against Premier League after claims the airline was at the centre of 'sham' sponsorship deals

MIKE KEEGAN: Etihad Airways - the principal sponsor of Manchester City - is considering legal action against the Premier League after it was implicated in its bombshell ruling.

— Daily Mail Football, publisher's words · Read the original ↗

24 outlets6 languages12 countriesUpdated

Who broke it

Voetbal International

NL · NL

Followed by

23

outlets in 6 languages over 1 d 23 h.

Our read

Corroborated (3)

3 of 3 outlets each added at least one detail no earlier report had. That is independence, not agreement: two of them can still contradict each other.

Judged on the 3 outlets in our latest edition; the timeline keeps all 24 we have seen.

Coverage timeline

24 outlets · first-seen order
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    Voetbal InternationalNL · NLBroke it

    Etihad wil Premier League aanklagen

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First seen is our own clock across 245+ feeds; it is not a guarantee of who published first. Each time is the earlier of the publisher's own timestamp and our first sighting. Headlines and summaries are the publishers' own words, linked to the original. How we work out who broke it.