After the shock, the waves. Usually, by the third day of every new episode of the eight-year Manchester City saga, debates about the story devolve into debates about the rules alleged to have been broken. That they’re “unfair”; that they seek to stop those challenging the “establishment”; that they were created by a “cartel”.
Such views – currently being argued – have also long been shaped by spin, increasingly fired by complex new ownerships seeking to show “ambition”.
