Enzo Maresca has an idea of how, to borrow a phrase adapted from an Inspiral Carpets song, this is how it feels to be City. It has changed in the last three weeks, with a guilty verdict returned in the case of 114 Premier League charges, with an official judgment that they benefited from more than £900m in disguised, and thus illegitimate, funding, with the word “sham” attached to their contracts and, for some, their achievements.
Maresca has talked about how he and his players have had to block out the “noise”, as he terms it. They did it very effectively at Anfield on Sunday, shrugging off chants about cheating to beat Liverpool 3-0.
