It is but 2½ weeks since we were digesting the reality that Manchester City had won their fourth consecutive Premier League title and thus established themselves as statistically the most dominant club in English football history. That is not enough, though. This latest news tells us that from this position of unprecedented dominance, they intend to run away from the rest of the pack.
Amid the legalese, the endgame here is frightening. It is not about being frontrunners in the Premier League competition, it is more about rendering the competition redundant because if you lift financial constraints, which is what they are fighting for in court, then you create a two-horse race for nation-state-owned clubs, with Chelsea, whose owners are
