Sign up now! Sign up now! Sign up now? Sign up now!It is quite funny that PSG felt like the good guys at the Etihad Stadium but if we briefly detach ourselves from the notion that the European champions’ own sportswashing and cashsplashing has also done immeasurable damage to the beautiful game, then their 4-2 Bigger Cup shellacking of Manchester City was pure cinema, baby!I was stunned at reading the comments in support of Manchester City keeping their trophies, coming out of the mouth of their Bigger Cup rivals at PSG (yesterday’s Quote of the Day). Given the example of the organisers of the Tour de Lance … sorry, the Tour de France, this kind of ‘keep the awards you won’ stuff might get him sent to the Bastille. Or consider Formula One. They’ve got all kinds of rules about driver behaviour on the racetrack, and additional rules about what the crew can and cannot do to your car.

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