Manchester City scandal a test of Britain’s commitment to rule of law

The visit by star-studded Manchester City, the most successful English football team of recent times, was a highlight of Hong Kong’s football festival this summer.

Supporters, sporting the club’s colours, flocked to Kai Tak Stadium, turning it into a sea of blue.

Now, the club has plumbed the depths, found guilty by an independent tribunal of systematic breaches of the English Premier League’s financial rules over almost a decade.

The affair has, with justification, been described as one of the...