There are complexities within this story of the Premier League charging Manchester City with breaking 115 financial fair play rules — or, at least, the rulers of Abu Dhabi, which owns City, will find whatever complexities they can. These are mainly about the alleged impracticality of taking retrospective action against any alleged offenders, such as awarding Manchester United and Liverpool the three league titles they would have won if City had not been cheating. Allegedly.

But there are great simplicities to the case too, the most obvious of which is this: I don’t know any fans of Manchester City. I know fans of Man United, Liverpool, Arsenal, Chelsea, Spurs, Aston Villa, Everton, Leeds United and West Ham. I even know a Nottingham Forest fan.