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And how many other times? Of course there are still important games and important goals, but I doubt he went crazy at a single league goal in 17/18 as they were clearly champions by early November, and it was just a walk in the park all season. That's most years for PSG, Bayern and Juventus...

The other stat he uses is about games dominated by 70% possession or more. In the first 3 years of OPTA Stats (15 years ago) there were 3 games where a team had 70%+ possession. The last 2 seasons it's been over 60 games per season. So, in 15 years that has gone from 1 game per season, to 1...

Exacty right! What is that League like if two teams are clear a couple of months into the season? No historic, domestic rivalry to "spice" up a game, just teams playing out the nonsense of a mid-table Chelsea vs Atletico Madrid clash, to see who can climb to 8th. Yawn fecking city. Even if a...

Who's your money on for those trophies next season? They were odds-on in 36 of their 38 games this season. Only away to Liverpool and Chelsea were the exceptions. How many times a season as a Man City fan are you genuinely out of your seat punching the air and going batty as the ball hits the...

That's exactly the comparison I made to someone yesterday. It's like when you can edit Championship Manager, and you give yourself all the best players you can think of, and all the money it will allow you to have, then play a season where you stuff everyone. By the end of the 1st season, when...

Exactly! A fine, what's the point? How much would the fine have to be to make ANY difference whatsoever to man City? £50m, £100m, £200m? What was the fine they received?

I loved watching the Harlem Globetrotters, but I only ever wanted to go once, as I prefer watching competitive sport.

Even if they did, what would they do when someone is found to have broken the rules? It'll be the same noddy punishments that UEFA are dishing out for breaking FFP rules.

Oh transfer ban, yeah, but BANNED from the Champions League? There is more chance of me going home tonight and finding a naked Jess Ennis-Hill lying on my bed waiting for me. And do transfer bans really mean much to teams who have been stockpiling huge amounts of World Class players for years...

Don't hold your breath.

Do you honestly believe there is any chance they get banned from CL? I'd love to say there was, but there simply isn't. Aging squad? Not especially. Did you see the talent they had sat on the bench, and that didn't even include Phil Fogden. Where are they about to be weak if they get a 2...

And what do you think they will end up getting? If it's a Champions League ban, I'll eat my left sock. They can throw huge money at it, to kick it down the road before a punishment gets agreed because UEFA can't be bothered to keep fighting. It will be a fine and/or a transfer ban. That'll make...

FFP has caught them, but what are you expecting in terms of a punishment? Fine? Transfer ban? Seems to me that clubs are stockpiling players so that they can ride out a transfer ban.

Just because the rest are falling further away from City, doesn't mean we have a great, exciting League. Liverpool had their best ever season, and that meant they could run City close. The "twists and turns" of the run-in were non-existent, as City haven't dropped a single point since JANUARY...

Yes, completely agree, and worse. It's actually become EXPECTED that we see the glamorous BIG TEAM full of stars doing their party pieces, and scoring all their beautiful goals. A team that tries to stop them is accused of "anti-football". Man City dismantled Watford to a greater extent than...