If only...
Pep Guardiola's side have made history on an afternoon which brought disappointment for second-place Arsenal - while Jurgen Klopp managed his last game as manager of Liverpool.
news.sky.com
"And it's even more difficult when coming up against the City's £1bn squad"
"Spending that is enabled by their Abu Dhabi investors that has fuelled unprecedented dominance but also an unprecedented Premier League investigation."
(note Abu Dhabi investors, rather than state owned but then have they ever referred to the Glazers as US investors?)
"Judgement day awaits, though maybe still months away.
Talk of punishments – this season saw Everton and Nottingham Forest docked points for overspending – is on hold.
So for some is the verdict on this entire period of such superiority on the pitch."
(Talk of punishments? Are we not allowed to present our case to the IC first then Rob?)
"Now there’s little stopping the juggernaut for the 10 times champions of English football – on the pitch at least."
(And there we have it, the overriding reason for the charges, sod all to do with guilt or not)