Man City thrashing Liverpool was football at its most dystopian

Liverpool 0-3 Man City (Gravenberch red card 62′ | Haaland 65′, Doku 68′, Cherki 78′) ANFIELD — It was like a dystopian episode of Black Mirror . All that bluster. All that angst. All those eyes watching in hundreds of countries around the world. For a game that was effectively meaningless. Until Manchester City are sanctioned, that is the dark reality of Premier League football. Every success, every last-minute winner, every monumental upset could be deemed irrelevant in a few months if City are relegated, demoted or wiped from existence, as the most vociferous naysayers insist must happen as a…