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Doing a Pep Guardiola?: The DA could have a pre-season wishlist and R500 million for the moonshot team. Photo: Papi Morake/Gallo Images

Is it moonshot or money shot in South Africa’s coalition land

Will Manchester City, like Mzwanele Manyi, pull off a treble this weekend?

Arsenal fans during their final game of the season against Wolves at the Emirates Stadium. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)

No trophy for second, but Arsenal lived the dream

Mikel Arteta’s work-in-progress squad made the fans believe — and placed football on notice

Manchester City celebrate winning the 2011/2012 English Premier League title. (Getty Images)

Manchester is blue: Joleon Lescott on City’s rise to the top of English football

The former player identifies the game that changed it all for Manchester’s noisy neighbours and talks about the club’s challenges in Europe

Pep Guardiola meets HH Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Manchester City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak at the Presidential Affairs Office in Abu Dhabi on March 14, 2018 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. (Photo by Victoria Haydn/Manchester City FC via Getty Images)

The beautiful game’s slow death is complete

Football loses the last vestiges of being a sport played by people who have something in common with their supporters

Raphinha of Leeds United celebrates after scoring their side’s first goal from the penalty spot during the Premier League match between Brentford and Leeds United at Brentford Community Stadium on May 22, 2022 in Brentford, England. (Photo by Alex Davidson/Getty Images)

Premier League: Reliving a ridiculous final day

Sunday saw the top and bottom of the table decided in thrilling fashion.

Fernandinho of Manchester City is thrown into the air by teammates after playing his final match for the club during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Aston Villa at Etihad Stadium on May 22, 2022 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Matt McNulty – Manchester City/Manchester City FC via Getty Images)

Fuelled by Premier League dynasty, Man City crave Champions League legacy

Pep Guardiola won’t be satisfied until their domestic bliss becomes the catalyst to conquer Europe

Complete domination: Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City, has drilled positional play into his team — but so has Chelsea’s Thomas Tuchel, which will make the Champions League final on 29 May particularly interesting. (Tom Flathers/Manchester City FC/Getty Images)
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Positional play 101: Why City vs Chelsea is the perfect tactical storm

The Champions League final hosts two sides that have perfected the art of controlling space

Manchester City’s Pep Guardiola and Liverpool’s Jurgen Klopp during the Premier League match between Manchester City and Liverpool at Etihad Stadium on September 9, 2017 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Tom Flathers/Manchester City FC via Getty Images)

The Premier League returns: Strange times, stranger football

English football is set for (another) defiant return, bringing with it several bizarre subplots

Six-time Ballon d’Or winner Lionel Messi has told Barcelona he wants to leave in a “bombshell” fax that is expected to spark a legal battle over a buy-out clause worth hundreds of millions of dollars and a fight from top European clubs eager to sign up the Argentinian.

Top European clubs circle as Messi calls time at Barcelona

The Argentine legend has fallen out with the Catalan club’s hierarchy, which has alerted a number of sides in world football

Seismic decision: Manchester City fans have another reason to celebrate — the Court of Arbitration for Sport has overturned Uefa’s decision to ban the club from European football for two years. (Michael Regan/Getty Images)

Manchester City CAS ruling counts for everything and nothing

It may leave a sour taste in the mouth, but the lack of sanction for Manchester City, aside from a fine that amounts to small change, doesn’t affect the bigger picture

Pep Guardiola, manager of Manchester City moves training equipment during the training session at Manchester City Football Academy on June 06, 2020 in Manchester, England. (Photo by Matt McNulty – Manchester City/Manchester City FC via Getty Images)
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Football will define its own destiny as it returns to a strange world

The superstars of the Premier League are back and how they do will determine whether they remain relevant – on and off the pitch

Orlando Pirates head coach Josef Zinnbauer greets fans and poses for selfies at their Absa Premiership match against AmaZulu FC at Orlando Stadium in Soweto, Johannesburg. (Lefty Shivambu/ Gallo Images)

The secret behind the Josef Zinnbauer magic

The Orlando Pirates coach has masterminded a dramatic turnaround at the struggling club he joined just over four months ago. Now, they are league contenders

Preventative measures: Paris Saint-Germain (right) and Dortmund line up in an empty Parc des Princes stadium in Paris stadium.  (Getty Images/UEFA/AFP)

Covid-19 red cards major events

Sporting events, from football and tennis to rugby and cycling, on this year’s calendar are in doubt

Having won four English Premier League titles in the last eight seasons, Manchester City were given a two-year European ban on Friday. (Shaun Botterill/Getty)

What now for Abu Dhabi’s Man City project?

After being banned by Uefa from European competitions for two years, will the side return to their old, mediocre standards?

Marcelo Bielsa manager of Leeds United crouches during the Sky Bet Championship match between Leeds United and Cardiff City at Elland Road on December 14, 2019 in Leeds, England. (Nigel Roddis/Getty Images)

Return to glory: Leeds United’s masterplan is in its final phase

The once-great Elland Road club is set to become one of the most valuable entities in English football

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola will look to spend big to have a chance at winning the English Premier League next season. (Catherine Ivill/Getty Images)

Guardiola set for Man City summer squad refresh

The Manchester City manager wants to strengthen his squad in the transfer market so that he can mount a challenge to Liverpool next season

Man City boss Pep Guardiola. (Reuters/David Klein)

Can Guardiola salvage Man City’s season?

Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola conceded the Premier League title to Liverpool long ago, but his side’s profligate attack and porous defence are becoming worrying trends. A…

Three things we learned from the Premier League

Liverpool moved to within six victories of becoming champions of England while Man City dropped points on the road

Liverpool manager Jürgen Klopp. (Alberto Lingria/Reuters)

Chaos theory: How Jürgen Klopp has harnessed the unpredictable

The Liverpool manager has his side playing unstoppable football but it’s the attention to detail off the field that has bred the success

Man City boss Pep Guardiola. (Reuters/David Klein)

Guardiola chases Champions League vindication

City start their latest bid to win the club’s first European Cup with a trip to Shakhtar Donetsk in the Group C opener on Wednesday