Glory Days For the Waifs and the Strays

On May 12th, 2019, Manchester City became the first team to retain the Premier League title for a decade. Twenty years earlier the same club was slogging its way fortuitously out of Division Two, having sunk ignominiously to the third tier, its glory days well behind it. Ordinarily, the tale of a sleeping giant awaking to stomp gleefully over the competition would be celebrated far beyond the core fanbase. But City's success is tied inextricably to their takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group in