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Gateshead’s fruitless trip south offers hint of Manchester City’s doomsday future

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His team bottom of the National League, Lee Cattermole’s ‘bomb squad’ approach could well end with him departingAmong many doomsday scenarios facing Manchester City is plunging down the football pyramid. Would that be so bad? Instead of yawning at the prospect of yet another meeting with Real Madrid or repeated Aviva train-hampered journeys to Wembley, how about the exoticism of away travel to Wealdstone? In the National League, City’s ownership may wish to know, there are no formal financial fair play or strict salary cap regulations.Wrexham, Notts County and Chesterfield…

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