![]() In United’s European campaign, there were multiple instances where you detected the glory ebbing away: not just in the Champions League final, which they trailed for 85 minutes, but also in the semi-final, which required Roy Keane’s totemic, self-sacrificing display against Juventus to send them to Barcelona in the first place. If there is one fundamental contrast between this all-conquering City team and Manchester United’s class of 1999, it is the absence of jeopardy. Now here they were, chanting “two down, one to go”, zeroing in on the Treble as if it were a fate divinely decreed. Twenty-four years earlier, some of these fans had made the same pilgrimage for the less alluring spectacle of a League One play-off final, when they only squeaked past Gillingham on penalties. Walking back along Wembley High Road last Saturday, through Manchester City’s designated drinking zone after the FA Cup final, the thought occurred as to whether any club had advanced so far, so fast.
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