Jack Anderson: Don't be too surprised if case against City is 'resolved'

If City’s titles are expunged, United might get three, Liverpool three and Arsenal are on for three in a row. But steady Gooners, because it is a big 'if'. 

MAN CITY CASE: If it is proven that City have breached Premier League rules about financial sustainability – and there is an ongoing investigation into allegations of 115 regulatory breaches – the record books may have to be re-written. Picture: Michael Regan/Getty Images

Football is back. As a Hornet’s fan, I am enjoying Watford’s good start and reading John Preston’s 'Watford Forever'. The book is, as its subheading says, about how GrahamTaylor and Elton John saved a football club, a town and each other. 

As with all the best books of its kind, it’s more a social history than a sporting one. Preston describes Vicarage Road, Watford’s home ground, in the 1950s as a crumbling wreck with men’s toilets so dingy that mushrooms grew on the walls, no women’s toilet in the entire ground, bare wood benches “polished to a dull sheen by generations of working men’s bottoms” and stands of corrugated iron that kept out neither sun nor rain.