There have been few winners in Manchester City’s guilty verdict, except highly paid lawyers and the inflatable fruit industry. The fans have suffered, being forced to question everything they have been told, while being labelled “cheats” but they were able to forget the cacophony of noise around the club as Enzo Maresca became the first manager in history to win his first seven games in charge of a team.
Ipswich were the latest victims but they put up a fight in City’s first home Premier League game since being found to have breached financial rules. Defiance has fortified the majority of the City fanbase, who were able to see local boy Phil Foden instigate the triumph with a kiss of the badge, before an emblem of their wealth, Erling Haaland, secured the points to move six clear of the nearest challengers with a clinical double, albeit with a few scares between.