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Dion Fanning: Man City’s dominance is a reason for despair not celebration

If you still believe that jeopardy is part of sport, if why and how City are doing this matters as much as how Pep Guardiola has done it, then this was a different type of week
Dion Fanning: Man City’s dominance is a reason for despair not celebration

Manchester City's Rodri, Manuel Akanji, and Erling Haaland celebrate the own goal of Real Madrid's Gabriel Eder Militao during the UEFA Champions League semi-final second leg match at Etihad Stadium, Manchester

When the film director Mike Nichols looked around to cast an actor to play the role of Benjamin Braddock in the movie, The Graduate, his friend Robert Redford was desperate for the part.

Nichols looked at beautiful, blond, blue-eyed Robert Redford and wondered if he knew what it was like to be Benjamin Braddock, to be forlorn and unlucky in love.

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