For the busiest team in English soccer, it feels like the 2020-21 Premier League campaign started sometime in the midsummer of 2019. To Manchester City and its relentless schedule, these things are starting to run together. No club in England has played more than City’s 118 matches since Aug. 12, 2018. Outside of this year’s pandemic hiatus, that means it has averaged a game every 5.4 days for two years. The last thing City needed now was a hyper-intense, jam-packed schedule in the world’s most punishing...

Source: Wall Street Journal September 11, 2020 11:37 UTC