Middle Eastlands

I don't know, I'm out of the country 10 minutes, and overnight Man city become the richest football club in the world.

I can't help thinking that if anyone could stuff up and under perform when backed by trillions of oil dollars, it'd have to be City.

However, I had the misfortune of living in Blackburn when they had millions of pounds pumped in. I had to suffer the indignity of previously oblivious glory hunters pretending to be life long rovers fans as Shearer et al won them the premiership. Crap town, crap team, but several million quid later, the investment paid off.

So one can only hope Robinho, Jo and Yohoho or whoever can adapt to Manchester and bring home some silverware.

Incidentally, it's interesting to note that Australians, who are generally relatively ignorant about 'soccer' automatically presume you're a blue if you are from Manchester, fully understanding that most Utd fans are poxy southerners.

Anyway, the last word on the subject should go to Noel Gallagher, who has clearly retained his
Burnage sense of humour. He told BBC 5Live:

“It’ll be nice to know that every gallon of petrol a Man Utd fan buys will be
going into City’s transfer kitty.”

Read his full comments here