FILE PHOTO: Soccer Football - La Liga Santander - FC Barcelona vs Real Sociedad - Camp Nou, Barcelona, Spain - May 20, 2018 Barcelona's Andres Iniesta and team mates celebrate with the La Liga trophy after the match REUTERS/Albert Gea/File Photo
ZURICH (Reuters) - Club football played second fiddle to the World Cup in 2018 and that was probably just as well given its utter predictability.
Four or the five major European domestic leagues, which concentrate nearly all the top players and most of the sport's wealth, turned into one-horse races in the latest demonstration of the growing gulf between the biggest clubs and the rest.
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