City-mad Hatton invites Sheiks to ringside

Ricky Hatton hopes to add Manchester City’s prospective new owners to his huge band of supporters after inviting them to his fight against Paulie Malignaggi in Las Vegas.

City supporter Hatton, 29, takes on the Italian-American at the MGM Grand on November 22 with nearly 13,000 tickets already sold – many of them to Britons planning to travel across the Atlantic.