Chelsea and Manchester City have similar goals on and off the pitch.
Fans feel the new European Super League is not about the tradition or love of the sport but simply about making as much money as possible.
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City can rest safe in the knowledge that should they win this season’s delayed Champions League competition, they will get the opportunity to defend the title next year.
The Manchester derby at Old Trafford in April 2019.
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The clubs no longer ‘belong’ to the fans - they have become instruments in an ideological war between Western capitalism and the rent hungry sheikhs of the Gulf states.
Walk down the high streets of Britain, through the shopping malls of the United States or around the retail complexes of East Asia, and you will inevitably be confronted with a McDonald’s food outlet…