On the ball: City's love-hate relationship with Champions League persists

May 08, 2022 12:09 AMThere is a sub-section of Manchester City's support who freely declare they have no desire for their team to even play in the Champions League, let alone win it. The logic follows that it's a competition for the gilded elite, those who designed the financial fair play system to protect a closed shop against interlopers like City, a formerly provincial club now flush with the riches of Abu Dhabi.