Guardiola’s supremacy: how City became too good for their own good

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One more time, without feeling. The sun rose on Sunday morning, the Earth completed a full rotation on its axis and Manchester City won the Premier League title, just as they did in 2012 and 2014, and 2018 and 2019, and 2021, 2022 and 2023. Another trophy in the glass case another silhouette to add to the mural. The greatest saga in English football has been turned into ecclesiastical liturgy, its rhythms ...