Did that all really happen? Seven months ago today, 12 of Europe’s elite clubs - including Manchester City as one of six from the Premier League - signed up for the ill-fated breakaway Super League project.
As hazy spring sunshine bathed a loosening UK lockdown, City and Chelsea did their best impressions of the internet’s favourite Grandpa Simpsons meme by entering and leaving in quick time and Real Madrid supremo Florentino Perez ranted about his new and crumbling empire on El Chiringuito - barely any of it seemed real.
But European football did lurch perilously close to the precipice. Not that you’d have known it when City and Chelsea met in the final of the Champions League in Porto the following month - players from each team
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