Pot of gold buys City silverwareWhen this season started Sheikh Mansour's net spend on Manchester City had already soared to £650m, and we all wondered what kind of gratification he would want in return for such an outlandish binge. Qualifying for next season's Champions League was handy, but it was the battered old FA Cup that made City feel like a force again.
"Blue moon, now I'm no longer alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own." City's favourite lyric has been sung as a torch song and fed through a computer to produce a manic dancefloor anthem. But it was always optimistic as well as being faintly self‑effacing. When redemption came, 35 years, two months and 16 days after the club's last major trophy, no patron of the now discarded Maine Road would have expected it to arrive on such an engulfing tide of money.
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