Then the writer's focus is wrong. That'll be 100 of your finest sterlings please.
ETA: The focus of the sentence can be changed without the clunky construction but I guess it's a forlorn hope that that might happen.
Well, the problem is that if the man could 'have' charges against him dropped he probably wouldn't have brought them against himself in the first place.
Okay, so, for eejits like me cup qualification is all about #grim_arithmetic, rotten goal difference and the need for one team to leather another by about four goals. What month is this? April? May?