Manchester City’s Raheem Sterling completes crushing defeat of Spurs

It is beginning to feel like a procession. This was the 16th league win in a row for Manchester City and they are now 14 points clear at the top and, as far as the chasing pack is concerned, little more than a dot in the far distance. Throw in their almost ludicrous goal difference of plus-44 and it would not be too presumptuous, one imagines, if the people who arrange these things started looked at provisional dates for the open-top bus parade next May. And, yes, it’s still over a week until Christmas.

Pep Guardiola will urge caution, of course, because that is what managers do in these circumstances. But he only being polite, and trying to guard against complacency, when he says it is too early to be talking that way. And what other conclusion can we draw when his players have now faced all of England’s Champions League representatives and outplayed them all with an aggregate score of 12-2?

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