It’s a shame given the stylish manner in which they cantered to it, but sadly it looks like we’re going to have to strip Man City of the 2017/18 Premier League title already.
City fans can go ahead and blame club sponsors Etisalat, who went and undid all Pep Guardiola’s hard work by excreting the following to herald City’s success with a truly horrible piece of corporate banality…
Celebrating victory .. Celebrating together!
Congratulations to @ManCity on winning the English #PremierLeague 🏆👏@Cityarabia #ManCity pic.twitter.com/reikzkBzgz— Etisalat UAE (@etisalat) April 15, 2018
You know when theatre people try to recreate ‘football fan culture’ on the stage and it’s just cringe-inducingly sanitised, camp and awful? Yeah, that.
It’s a shame, as City really were deserving champions up until this point.