Amid the excited rattle and hum of another Premier League season finale, Manchester City's inexorable progress to what would be an unprecedented and quite stunning consecutive treble continues almost in silence.
This is not a sly dig at the atmosphere at the Etihad. That's for others to debate. Personally, I have never found anything wrong with it.
No, it's not that. It's a reference to - I suppose - how a lion hunts. Or how a cobra moves through the grass. Silently. Without fuss. But successfully. Oh so predictably successfully.
Because this is the modern City.