Manchester City’s incredible 6-1 win at Old Trafford was fuelled by the “mercenary” jibes being hurled at their players. Saturday is the tenth anniversary of the seminal moment in Manchester derby history, when the brilliant Blues wiped away 37 years of devastation in the most emphatic style possible.
City had won just once in that period, and even the arrival of Sheikh Mansour as new owner, with all of his wealth, had not stopped the Manchester United steamroller when it came to that fixture.
In three derbies at Old Trafford following the 2008 takeover, United had won the lot, and Sir Alex Ferguson’s derisory dismissal of the upwardly mobile Blues as “noisy neighbours” seemed to be justified.
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