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From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story.
I'm Manveen Rana.
In 2008, Manchester City was a football club in despair.
Humiliated on the pitch after a historic 8-1 defeat, their finances looked shaky and the outlook was bleak.
It was a far cry from the triumphs of the club down the road,
as Manchester United was riding high on a record-breaking winning streak.
Undeniably, undoubtedly, irrefutably, unequivocally, Man United are five times the club that Manchester
City are in terms of scale and reach.
The difference between City and United is the age-old battle between faith and reason.
Reason tells you to support United.
They win lots of matches.
I'm credited or discredited with the phrase City-itis.
And City-itis was that just when you think nothing can get worse, it usually did.
So when an extraordinarily wealthy Emirati sheikh, a member of the United Arab Emirates ruling elite,
decided to buy the club, the team and its fans were giddy.