There is a joke doing the rounds among legal experts about the amount of times they have been put on stand-by for a decision in the Manchester City “115 charges” case.

Meals have been cancelled, night outs postponed and work diaries cleared in anticipation of being called to comment on the case. The only punishment doled out so far, they note, is to their social lives.

Finally, though, it appears as if their expertise might be about to pay dividends.

Whispers of a resolution to the case are nothing new but one source with insider knowledge of how arbitration cases work has told The i Paper that experts are braced for a decision to drop in mid-November – possibly in a week that coincides with the next international break.

When we can expect a verdict

That tallies with conversations w

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