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Judging by a video released from Abu Dhabi, it turns out that what follows completing football is to walk Big Cup trophy into a large room, where a politely clapping sheikh will greet you. Handshakes all round to club suits and your Catalan genius coach before the younger members of the royal family help cut up, using a glittering ornamental sword, an outsized version of those club-crest cakes you might buy in the Arndale Centre. Flying in a blue dream, to conjure veteran plank-spanking king Joe Satriani. But while Manchester City fans look forward to doing it all again, starting with a Friday night reunion with Vincent Kompany at Burnley, consider those of a less fortunate hue of blue.
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