Winning the Champions League would be an extraordinary act of defiance from a team still waiting to learn if it will be cast out by Uefa and transformed into a sporting ghost ship
Has there been a more existentially strange interlude in the history of any modern football club than the drama that could await Manchester City over the next three months?
This is a question that may concern only City’s fans for now. It will get lost in the more general weirdness of sporting life in the time of plague. But bear with it, because while the prospect of finishing the football season is a journey without maps for all concerned, what awaits City from here could be both glorious and a little disturbing.
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