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Guardiola returns to Manchester as City spin into dizzy mess against PSG

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It is quite funny that PSG felt like the good guys at the Etihad Stadium but if we briefly detach ourselves from the notion that the European champions’ own sportswashing and cashsplashing has also done immeasurable damage to the beautiful game, then their 4-2 Bigger Cup shellacking of Manchester City was pure cinema, baby!

I was stunned at reading the comments in support of Manchester City keeping their trophies, coming out of the mouth of their Bigger Cup rivals at PSG (yesterday’s Quote of the Day). Given the example of the organisers of the Tour de Lance … sorry, the Tour de France, this kind of ‘keep the awards you won’ stuff might get him sent to the Bastille. Or consider Formula One.

They’ve got all kinds of rules about driver behaviour on the racetrack, and additional rules about what the crew can and cannot do to your car. Cars get inspected before each race, and there are also mandatory post-race inspections for every car. You might drive your car first across the line to the cheers of the crowd, but if the post-race inspection discovered that you cheated in how your team designed your vehicle, your memory of crossing the line is all you get to keep.

Think about that for a minute. If the Premier League and Fifa cannot clear the bar for morals in sport set by the UCI and FIA, that says a lot. And none of it good” – Peter Rehwaldt. My friend Bernard grew up in Coventry. And as a boy he thought the team was called ‘Coventry City Nil’. I would get out more, but I’m...

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