Why this Champions League campaign feels very different for Manchester City

Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today. Enzo Maresca has an idea of how, to borrow a phrase adapted from an Inspiral Carpets song, this is how it feels to be City. It has changed in the last three weeks, with a guilty verdict returned in the case of 114 Premier League charges, with an official judgment that they benefited from more than £900m in disguised, and thus illegitimate, funding, with the word “sham” attached to their contracts and, for some, their achievements.