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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay

A year on, Manchester City’s legal experts have the Premier League in a corner

Illustration of a Manchester City representative dangling money in front of a tortoise that has a football as a shell
It already feels like a victory for the dominant paradigm in every other part of modern life: a victory for billionaire culture. Illustration: David Humphries/The Guardian

Happy one-year anniversary! How has it been? How do you feel? More, or less, in love? Have you counted down the days? Are you happier, wiser, more centred, like a man in a porridge advert going for a soulful morning run in a sunlit cul-de-sac?

Perhaps, to offer another perspective, you feel so viscerally nauseated at the prospect of leafing through the pre-planned partisan responses to a highly complex piece of legal wrangling there’s a danger your own intestines will liquefy and snort out of your nostrils straight into the toaster. Who knows? Maybe that was the point all along.

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