give it to gordon
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I see Ronay's back on his favourite subject. Won't link but here's a flavour...
"To many neutrals such success in the stratified modern game will carry a sense of economic inevitability, a symptom also of something broken in the way the sport arranges itself now"
"there is a perfect fit between the Guardiola style, which is about control first of all, mastering the ball, destroying the variables that might bring defeat and the billionaire-ball model of City’s nation-state owners, which also involves creating a structure of such impenetrable wealth that its aim is to remove the possibility of defeat."
"But is it actually interesting? Or interesting enough? It was notable in the broadcast of the Brentford game that Sky Sports seemed to be making a very conscious effort to develop a City narrative"
And an all-time classic..
"Not to mention, because nobody seems to want to, the issue of those 115 unresolved charges for breaking financial rules"
He's gone even more Delooney.
Could put it the other way. Teams park the bus against City, but is it actually interesting ? Or interesting enough ? The aim of this to remove the possibility of losing.