Collison leaves Hughes feeling blue

MONEY can buy you almost everything, but not, apparently, an away victory.

Manchester City’s oil-soaked riches might have made them the envy of the vast majority of their Premier League rivals but their record on the road remains the stuff of nightmares. This dismal defeat extended City’s winless run in away league football to 11 matches — a scandalous statistic for a club of their resources.

It says everything about the depths plumbed by Mark Hughes’ club away from Eastlands that their manager suggested this was one of their better performances on the road, and it was scarcely credible that this was the same team that had held Liverpool to a 1-1- draw at Anfield last week.