Manchester City's dominance is distorting football fandom
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Manchester City's dominance is distorting football fandom
To be a fan is to be part of a community.
Ben Valenta, David Sikorjak, • Fans Have More Friends
For the first time, the Premier League this season was forced to strip points in the standings from two of its member clubs for breaches of financial regulations. One of them, Everton, was punished twice, prompting outrage from its fans. Appeals then kicked off a long, opaque legal process that left not just those teams but also their rivals mired ... See more
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Football stood at the very core of what the town was about, not on the outskirts, not on the periphery. It had nothing to do with entertainment and everything to do with how people felt about themselves.