Manchester City’s 6-0 win in Saturday’s FA Cup final against Watford made them the first team in history to win the domestic treble in England.

Josep Guardiola’s squad contains some prominent England players. Kyle Walker, John Stones, Raheem Sterling and Fabian Delph are now treble winners - as is Phil Foden - and all of them made important contributions to City’s historic achievement.

Walker and Sterling played all 90 grotesque minutes of the final at Wembley as City added the FA Cup to their EFL Cup and Premier League pots. Stones played the last ten minutes.

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This is a treble with context that can’t be ignored.

City are the flagship club of a global organisation that’s owned by people with big questions to answer. There are financial matters being investigated; the club’s sheer financial might alone is enough to leave a bad taste.

Guardiola and his paymasters, and presumably City’s supporters, crave the UEFA Champions League. Only they know whether they’d swap this little piece of history for a Premier League and Champions League double - I know I would.

Nevertheless, it’s a phenomenal achievement. City’s rivals have spent plenty of money of their own, often very badly indeed. The champions, meanwhile, have built a club in Guardiola’s image and beyond.

Money helps but it guarantees nothing. So to win everything domestic football has to offer in the space of a few short weeks is incredibly impressive.

And, worryingly for the rest of us, it feels like it could happen again.