Slick City closing the quality gap

PERHAPS it is a result of living next door to football’s equivalent of the neighbours from hell that Manchester City and their supporters are so prone to hyperbole.

For a club that is only able to measure its success, or lack of it, by the black-and-white photographs of trophy-winning teams from a bygone era, they certainly like to talk up their perception that City continues to be one of the Premier League’s biggest and most important clubs.

Anywhere other than Manchester, those claims might hold value, but City would need to double their average attendance, import some silverware for the trophy cabinet and drop a few superstars into their team if they were to ever attempt to eclipse neighbours United.