Derby didn’t get away with it, but it took years and the cnt Mel Morris deliberately was late filing accounts to muddy the water. But the karma was that he never took them up to the untold riches of the PL despite the vast spend on players.
I think some hacks have occasionally clashed with him. Whilst Fergie and now Pep won’t countenance an inferior mortal such as football writer having an opinion. Fergie dished out life bans to several football writers.
Shearer actually had the guts to challenge him. Really surprising. As with Ferguson, Guardiola is usually treated with kid gloves by a sycophantic media.