Tottenham have been a bogey team for Man City for the past decade, but where would Spurs have finished if the Citizens were nowhere to be seen from 2009-2018?Manchester City’s guilty verdict has huge ramifications for English football after an independent Commission found the club guilty of serious breaches of the Premier League’s financial rules across a nine-year period from 2009 to 2018. That has already prompted discussion around what could happen to the titles and European places affected during those years, with several clubs considering legal action over the sporting and financial consequences of City’s conduct. Tottenham are among those clubs, as Spurs Web has previously covered.The sanctions have not yet been decided and are expected to follow City’s appeal, which the club are expected to launch soon. The Premier League rulebook allows for a range of potential punishments, from a reprimand to the most extreme possibility of expulsion from the competition or the stripping of titles.But what if, rather than trying to predict the eventual punishment, we simply removed Man City’s Premier League results from every season covered by the charges?We have recalculated the league table for every season from 2009/10 to 2017/18, removing City’s results and the points their opponents gained from those fixtures, to see where Tottenham would have finished in each campaign.Photo by Mark Leech/Offside/Getty Images2009/10Actual position: 4thRecalculated position: 4thThe first season in which Tottenham qualified for the Champions League in their history would have ended in exactly the same position.Even if Spurs had done the double over Manchester City that season, removing those two fixtures would only reduce their total from 70 points to 64 – still a point clear of Aston Villa, who would have finished fifth on 63 points.2010/11Actual position: 5thRecalculated position: 4thHarry Redknapp’s Spurs narrowly missed out on back-to-back Champions League qualification, finishing six points behind Arsenal in fourth. Tottenham took only one point from their two meetings with City, so removing those results leaves Spurs on 61 points.Arsenal, meanwhile, lose 4 points from their meetings with City, allowing Tottenham to climb into fourth and return to the Champions League.2011/12Actual position: 4thRecalculated position: 2ndDespite finishing fourth in what would be Redknapp’s final season in charge, Tottenham missed out on Champions League football after Chelsea, who finished sixth domestically, won the competition that year and took the final qualification spot for English clubs.Spurs had lost both of their league meetings with City, meaning removing those results does not take any points away from Tottenham. Arsenal, however, lose three points from their meetings with City, allowing Spurs to leapfrog them into second.Winners Manchester United would still be 20 points clear at the top though.2012/13Actual position: 5thRecalculated position: 4thAnother big Tottenham ‘what if’ from the previous season was whether Redknapp could have stayed beyond 2011/12.Spurs were building something under the English manager and could have wondered what might have happened had he remained in charge, although his successor Andre Villas-Boas still guided the club to an impressive 5th-placed finish.Tottenham missed out on fourth place by just one point to Arsenal, but removing City’s results would have been enough to send Spurs into the Champions League places with 69 points.2013/14Actual position: 6thRecalculated position: 5thThis was a more difficult season for Tottenham. Villas-Boas was eventually sacked in December following a run of heavy defeats, including a 6-0 loss to Man City at the Etihad. The reverse fixture under new manager Tim Sherwood was barely any better, with Spurs falling to a 5-1 defeat.Yet removing those six points would only make a small difference to Tottenham’s final position, because fifth-placed Everton had also lost both of their matches against City that season.2014/15Actual position: 5thRecalculated position: 4thThere it is – the fourth and final season in which Tottenham missed out on the glamour of Champions League football while Man City finished above them.You can read more about the numbers Tottenham potentially missed out on financially here.This was also the beginning of the Mauricio Pochettino era after Spurs activated a break clause in Tim Sherwood’s contract barely 6 months into his tenure.Pochettino’s first Spurs side finished fifth, six points behind Man United in fourth. Tottenham lost both meetings with City that season, and removing those results would move Tottenham into the top four.2015/16Actual position: 3rdRecalculated position: 3rdA young Spurs side emerged as the primary challengers to surprise champions Leicester City and stayed in contention deep into the campaign before a disappointing run-in ended their title hopes.Tottenham actually took six points from City that season, so removing those matches drops Spurs from 70 to 64 points. However, Manchester United and Arsenal also lose points from their meetings with City, meaning Tottenham still remain third in the recalculated standings.2016/17Actual position: 2ndRecalculated position: 2ndFor the second season in a row, Pochettino’s Tottenham were involved in a title race.In fact, Spurs were the only team in Europe’s top five leagues to concede fewer than 27 goals and lose fewer than five games, alongside Bayern Munich, but Antonio Conte’s Chelsea ultimately finished first after collecting more victories. (StatMuse)Pochettino has argued that Tottenham should be handed the title after Chelsea were found to have breached the Premier League’s financial rules during a period that included the 2016/17 season. That is a separate case, however.Pep Guardiola’s first season at the Etihad saw his side go winless against Tottenham, while also notably handing six points to Chelsea. Even if those results are removed entirely, Spurs would still have finished five points behind Chelsea.2017/18Actual position: 3rdRecalculated position: 2ndManchester City produced a remarkable season, finishing as champions with 100 points, and they completed the league double over Tottenham.Removing those two defeats would have meant Spurs claim the runners-up medal, just one point behind Manchester United at the top.READ MORE: Tottenham transfer update: Micky van de Ven worry, Dani Olmo opportunity, Morgan Gibbs-White – Spurs WebThe post Where Tottenham would have finished every Premier League season without Man City appeared first on Spurs Web.