BREAKINGWho can prevent a Manchester City reign of terror?

IT may be misplaced confidence, it may be over-optimism, it may be kidology, but United’s Ander Herrera is adamant that bitter rivals, City, are not on the verge of an era of dominance in English football, even if they lift the Premier League trophy today by winning the Manchester derby.

City, 16 points clear, can create history this evening by becoming the first Premier League side to clinch the title with five games to spare — and with April barely begun.

It makes you think of the 1999-2000 United team, which won the title with four games to go and ended the season 18 points clear of nearest rivals, Arsenal, a lead that still stands in the record books (in the Premier League era, at least). That team won seven more titles, before Alex Ferguson retired.