Ian Holloway has lambasted Manchester City as "a disgrace" after the club was found guilty of breaching Premier League financial rules.
City are appealing the verdict, with a statement reading: "Manchester City FC will now pursue the appeal avenues open to it, on the basis that the opinion contains clear material errors, of law, principle and fact, and is unsafe."
Ex-manager Pep Guardiola said he is "behind my club" and his successor Enzo Maresca said he "trusts the club completely." CEO Ferran Soriano said: "The whole Premier League case against us is based on a single false accusation."
But City have drawn the ire of Holloway, whose Blackpool side faced them in the Premier League in 2010-11, during the period where an independent commission ruled that they broke Premier League financial rules. Blackpool were relegated by one point in that campaign, and lost twice to City.
"You're a disgrace. You've tarred it so badly," Holloway fumed about the guilty verdict.
"For me, it's absolutely too late now. I would take everything away from every single one of them and make them start again. Right now.
"It's a disgrace and they're still not owning up to it. What type of people do they want to actually be?
"Is that [Pep Guardiola], did he know it was happening. No, I don't think he knew that. It's the people at the very, very top who are trying to cheat this game and I would throw them out.
"Why have they still got the company? Why do they still own it? Why do they still do that? Get lost.
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"How dare you ruin what's part of our country, our DNA in this country, without a shadow of a doubt. Honestly, every one of us, mining villages... why it all started, who knows, but it's all about a team and believing that you can be fairly better than someone else.
"And they've gone and ruined it, right at the top of the game. Absolute disgrace."
Holloway, 63, is now in charge of Swindon Town in League Two. His brutally honest news conferences have been a feature of his long career in English football. Last week, referring to Swindon's tough start to the season, he described himself as a "dead man walking" and impersonated a zombie.