There are some things money can't buy - just ask Chelsea.
Manchester City have spent a lot to get where they are, but this was the perfect afternoon to show up any lazy slurs that there aren't other major factors behind their remarkable success. As if 12th place isn't embarrassing enough after spending £600m in a year, they offered very little as the weakest team Pep Guardiola has picked all season romped to victory.
Premier League champions again already after Arsenal's defeat at Nottingham Forest, Coronation Day for City was made all the sweeter for the manner in which the match played out. A starting XI containing nine changes from the Real Madrid game and three academy graduates bossed a far more expensively-assembled Chelsea team to set up the trophy lift that everyone was in attendance for.
