This is completely false. Try checking the UK Subsidy Control Act or standard FCA regulations governments routinely ban owners, especially foreign state entities, from dumping unlimited uncommercial capital into businesses to distort fair competition. More importantly, City weren't punished for "spending money." An independent panel found them guilty on 114 counts because they systematically fabricated over £830M in fake sponsorships to hide that spending and lied to their own auditors. Falsifying corporate financial statements to bypass regulatory caps is a severe corporate offense in everyform of business. It's not a "bent football rule," it’s accounting fraud.