On an icy, full-throated afternoon at Wembley Manchester City produced a kind of medley-triumph, a run-through of the greatest hits of their own new age en route to the first trophy of the Pep Guardiola era. Victory was achieved in the familiar frictionless style of this state-of-the-art team. But it was nailed into place by the boys of 2011, that thirty-something spine that has been at City ever since the first trophy-winning summer, the FA Cup final victory on this ground against Stoke City. Vincent Kompany, David Silva and the latecomer Sergio Agüero did not just score City’s goals to take this game away from a distressingly underpowered Arsenal. They looked like grown-ups out there,...
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