This weekend, the English football season concludes with the FA Cup final. Manchester City, having won both the league and the League Cup, are on the verge of an unprecedented treble. That such a feat is being greeted with a shrug, as if inevitable, tells you everything about the contemporary game. Manchester City, a big club in a big city with a brief, swashbuckling period of success, has been transformed from slumbering, clod-footed giants into a trophy-winning machine by an infusion of Emirati cash. Owned by the deputy prime minister of the UAE, City have won four of the last
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Finding football's soul
Top flight football in England is a global phenomenon, more than anywhere else in Europe, more indeed than any league in any sport
 "The Liverpool supporters showed that matchgoing supporters matter. Supporters, at the stadium, singing their hearts out as they have done for years, for decades, matter. Photo: Reuters")
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The Liverpool supporters showed that matchgoing supporters matter. Supporters, at the stadium, singing their hearts out as they have done for years, for decades, matter. Photo: Reuters
