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Manchester City’s Kevin De Bruyne scores their second goal from the penalty spot. And City had seemed unusually focused coming into this game. All teams define themselves against something. City have an opportunity now to define themselves against everyone, against the person , against existential adversity. The damned City. The unforgiven. The outlaw blues. it’s […]

Pep Guardiola directs his Manchester City players at the Bernabéu. Revel in the irony: in fact it might be even as the good rupture comes that Manchester City eventually produce an excellent European performance. Enlightenment is achieved through the abandonment of desire. And yet even within that irony there are deeper ironies, the suspicion that […]