Manchester City fined £1m for delayed kickoffs

Manchester City person been fined much than £1 cardinal ($1.3m) by the Premier League for breaching the rules astir delayed kickoffs and restarts 9 times past season, England's top-flight league said connected Thursday.

The good comes a twelvemonth aft City paid £2m ($2.56m) to the league for breaching the aforesaid game-delay rules.

The nine accepted and apologised for the regularisation breaches, and confirmed they person reminded their players and unit of their responsibilities successful complying with the rules.

"Rules relating to kick-offs and re-starts assistance guarantee the organisation of the contention is acceptable astatine the highest imaginable nonrecreational modular and provides certainty to fans and participating clubs," the league said successful a statement.

"It besides ensures the broadcast of each Premier League lucifer is kept to schedule."

Fines totalling £1.08m were imposed relating to City's location games against Southampton, Tottenham Hotspur, Nottingham Forest, Manchester United, West Ham United and Newcastle United and their distant fixtures against Crystal Palace, Aston Villa and Ipswich Town.

The longest crippled delays were 2 minutes 22 seconds each for restarts against West Ham and Ipswich.

City are awaiting the verdict of 115 unrelated charges of alleged breaches of the Financial Fair Play (FFP) rules.

The charges screen a play starting from 2009 and continuing into the 2022-23 season. City person ever denied immoderate wrongdoing.