Win or lose, Manchester City case poses perilous threat to Premier League power

Arsenal clash is part Super Sunday but more importantly Tribunal Day Seven and the stakes could scarcely be higher.

TITLE RIVALS: Pep Guardiola, Manager of Manchester City (L) and Mikel Arteta, Manager of Arsenal. Pic: Julian Finney/Getty Images)

Dance while the world burns. You have to hand it to English football. It is above all endlessly adaptable. Everything is content. Never stop selling. Even if the thing you’re selling may just turn out to be the ground beneath your own feet.

The days leading up to any big soaraway Super Sunday showdown tend to bring an avalanche of messages from gambling companies describing their latest match-day lures. With Arsenal due at the Etihad on Sunday afternoon the gambling emails have once again flowed like wine, albeit with a topical twist this time.