There’s no suggestion that the tracking device found under a UEFA investigator’s car, at the height of a forensic investigation into Manchester City’s finances, had anything to do with the club under suspicion.
But it was an emblem of the tension and paranoia at the heart of an extraordinary, unremitting 15-year war which has concluded with the Premier League finding the club guilty on all but one of 115 charges.
The device was found when the independent forensic accountant, recruited by UEFA to assist investigators poring over hacked emails which suggested City were involved in Gulf state-sponsored strategies to cheat football financial
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