For top footballers, the season is an ever-lengthening ordeal. Some 108 players from English Premier League clubs played at the World Cup in Russia, more than from any other league; Spain’s top division finished a distant second, providing 78 players.
Within days of the World Cup’s conclusion, Premier League teams were already packing for meaningless pre-season friendlies in far-flung outposts of the ‘empire’—in Australia, Singapore, the US.
The club with the most players at the World Cup was Manchester City with 16, more than their rivals United, more than the most successful, most prestigious clubs in European football—more than Real Madrid and Barcelona, more than Bayern Munich and Juventus. City’s rise has been meteoric. Since winning a League Cup in 1976, the last, fading echo of a relatively glittering period for the club, City had floundered, playing in the third tier of English football in the same season that Manchester United swept to an unprecedented treble, winning the Premier League, the Champions League and the FA Cup.
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