Without holding a single match, the Super League has already put on a great show.

We have seen Guardiola making fancy dribbles against the secessionism of the rich and proclaiming the value of merit from the press room of a club irrigated by oil.

His bosses - his sheiks - were trained in the most fertile quarry of modern managers, the Masía del Golfo Persico, and he is now very concerned about the possible imbalance between reward and effort.

In these three days of fre

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