If Manchester City do what is widely expected this weekend, they will have achieved something no other side in the history of English football has ever managed.
From the origins of the game in the 19th century when the Football League was formed by the drapers and mill owners who were the forces in English football then to the present day of petro-states and venture capitalists, no club has been as close to this achievement as Manchester City.Â
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