The club’s phenomenal wealth, and its supreme competence, has led to an excellence that is both predictable and a perhaps a little dull
3-1 up, when there was something that, if you peered hard enough, looked a little like jeopardy. But, in truth, the final day was as good as done after 76 seconds whenled the table by four points having played a game more. There was some thought then that the goalless draw suited Arsenal more because it maintained their lead. Win their seven remaining games and they’d be champions.
Aston Villa, of course, deserve great credit for securing qualification for the Champions League for the first time in the tournament’s modern guise, and perhaps particularly for the quirk of doing so despite beginning and ending the season by conceding five.
City may have won the title by just two points but this is a little like 2018-19, when they pipped Liverpool by a single point by winning their final 14 games of the season as Liverpool won their final nine: ostensibly close but essentially as dramatic as the final stage of the Tour de France as the GC leaders process down the Champs Elysées.
English football, it turns out, could handle oligarchs, hedge funds and foreign states running its clubs when they were brash and inefficient. Phenomenal wealth plus supreme competence , though, equals an excellence that is predictable and perhaps a little dull.Barcelona’s victory over Sampdoria at Wembley in the 1992 European Cup final marked a turning point in the club’s modern history.haven’t always been the club they are now, impoverished and desperately chasing old glories.
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