Fergie shrugs off City threat as United focus on red rivals

MANCHESTER CITY may have spent £120 million (€132.5m) on new players — but Alex Ferguson will always regard Liverpool as Manchester United’s true local rivals.

Not since 1968, when United won the European Cup and City finished top of the old Division One have Manchester’s two giants met on anything like an equal footing.

But the pair go head-to-head at Old Trafford tomorrow with far more than bragging rights at stake.