Agree. City represents the extreme and shady end of these trends (anyone who claims otherwise is frankly clueless). The irony, however, is that precisely because City are such an artificial club, I feel more indifferent towards their success. And having already won the league recently, the novelty factor has worn off.
The same can’t be said about Liverpool who’ve wallowed in their own mystique and narcissism for decades -denying their supporters -and their most evangelical supporters still tend to be local- of what they believe is their destiny would frankly be a massive f**king laugh.