The proposed strike on Dec 1st has been averted already as the PFA and the Premier League came to some sort of agreement at last. The impending strike and subsequent legal action obviously did the trick at last.

City's PFA rep Gary Rowett had gone on the record to say that the players were sticking together.

“We do not want to weaken the PFA’s position while negotiations are going on.

“Perhaps the new offer might make some of the lads feel not so strongly about the issue as before, but the idea of a union is to show solidarity and I think that is what we will do if it comes to it.

“A lot of players are wanting to know where they stand if the strike happens and it seems to have got to the stage now where I can’t see any middle ground and that it will, after all, come down to a strike.

“I understand people saying it is bad for the image of the game, that we get such big salaries and all the rest of it.

“Footballers are not politicians or accountants and we don’t know too much about those two aspects of the dispute, but we are just standing up for our union as people do in other jobs.”

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