SO WHAT?

It looks as if every pundit is assuming that Manchester City* are guaranteed the Champions League before a ball is kicked, thus insuring that they achieve The Treble*. All well and good. In football terms they are pretty much the best team in Europe, and if, as foretold, they do in fact, prove the so called experts right, will anyone really care?

The inevitability of Manchester City* winning stuff is like the inevitability of that meteorite that wiped out the dinosaurs. It was always coming and when it did, the Dinosaurs couldn't do anything about it; nor did they worry about it.

Sport is all about jeopardy, expecting the unexpected, drama and, let's be honest, romance. It's all about meeting triumph and disaster and treating those imposters just the same, except when triumph is par for the course. A club whose currency is success at any cost, including fair play is hard to care about. Manchester City* are that club. Producing some of the best teams that most have us have seen, yet no one really gives a monkeys.

Is it because the strategy of this nation state club is to get the best manager in the game because money is no object and then hoover up players because money is no object, thus creating a squad that can field two first elevens because money is no object, while having the advantage of not having a stadium debt? Or is it because of the ten ton elephant in the room that goes by the name of 'Breaking Financial Fair Play Rules Around 100 Times Over A Nine Year Period' particularly in the context of previously receiving a two year ban from European competition and a £26.8m fine (later overturned by their legal team)

Whatever the reason is, I don't think on this occasion it is the standard currency of jealousy or dislike, it's extraordinary that it is simply apathy. It's a shrug of the shoulders at best.

Whatever this club continue to achieve on the pitch  their place in the pantheon of football greatness will be akin to Coldplay's in the Rock 'n Roll Hall Of Fame