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Frying pan and fire. Lesser of two evils. Maybe the best illustration of how Manchester City came to be part of everything they appeared to have been fighting against in their rise to the top of European football comes from the iconic Mitchell and Webb sketch where one German officer turns to another and asks: 'Are we the baddies?' In joining the European Super League, the Blues have moved away from UEFA and the Champions League - an organisation who had to be taken to court after trying to ban the club from their prestigious competition, whose anthem has been booed religiously by supporters for years - as well as (for now)
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