Man U is like the New York Yankees in American baseball -- a "global" brand which people love or hate.

Man U has the resources to buy players and the resources to grow players. To compete with it, you have to have deep pockets. Also, the unequal distribution of TV revenue and performance bonuses in the EPL gives some clubs more funds to work with (although half the money is distributed equally, which does help all the clubs). Such a system helps maintain the status quo.

As an event, watching it on my couch in the US, the match was unbelievable. I just wish more people on the west side of the Atlantic realized what happened in that match and what it meant.

Mike from Morgantown

Yeah I know there were injuries, financial problems etc. but God, the negativity of the man. Lambert seems to be an early favourite to take over, how would you feel about that?

lol i bet yoiu would think otherwise if a billionair would pump money in ten third-league clubs winning the championchips the next 40 years and liverpool, manu, arsenal and others would play in the second league then...

why are they so big? because they won titles, they grew with the fanbase and they won prize money. they deserve to have a better position than someone coming from nowhere with sheik abdullahs money.

do you wish to tell me that in the german league, where it isn't possible to play mr sheik, that we have a unfair league and the premier league is more fair? pahahahaha now THIS is funny. in germany, even the club without money can survive in the league because there aren't 5-10 who get everything from a sheik. your league is fair because a few clubs get money from billionairs? what's with all other clubs? don't they suffer because of that? don't they have a problem to reach champions league or even euro league because of that? you say exactly the opposite of the real situation, just a few clubs get a huge advantage against others in the premier league because of the billioniars.

has to be great to come from second league in premier league in uk to compete against 10 billionairs clubs and some others. yeah, very nice system.

"if you are lucky, even with a smaller fanbase, a sheik will get interest in your club and if you have no luck, like all other clubs, you can hope to stay in premier league because you wonÄt have a chance against the sheik club anymore""

Trafford isn't in Salford. Trafford borders Salford and is a borough of Greater Manchester just like Salford and Manchester are. The difference is that Salford and Manchester are cities of Gtr Manchester as well as boroughs.

OT: Didn't City concede a goal against 10 men? It's a shame goal difference is the decider instead of something like how many local or English players are in the team. Why would people support players from outside the area they come from let alone the country which they live?

Joey Barton shouldn't have been sent off. He only did what every City fan would have done to Tevez a few months ago.

sad im late to the party to help kowenicki out! amazing match, amazing comeback, and im so happy manure united got sent home empty handed.

on other notes, what people here dont understand is that MONEY DOESNT BUY YOU TITLES. If it did, then the dominance barca had the last 4 years in la liga and in europe would have never happened, because big spender real would have crushed them every single time. football is about being a good team, believing you can win and keeping on playing till the last minute. city came back from an 8 point gap btw them and man u to win the title in amazing fashion. one month ago i told myself that man u were champions but fortunately it didnt happen.

im a chelsea fan and i would have never expected us to reach the champions league, especially because we beat the barca which always have that 12th man advantage on the pitch.

this season i learned that no matter what, if you believe in your team and if you are willing to fight and cheer them on no matter what you can do anything, and a great example of that is montepelier wining ligue 1 in france when two seasons ago they were in ligue 2.

Merson's reaction pretty much resonated with every neutral and City fan across the nation, in fact the world.

In 2009 Mourinho bought tons of players for Inter and they won the triple (and they beat Barca...). Surely without Mou they wouldn't have made it so far, but on the other hand without Sneijder, Eto'o, Milito and Lucio they would have never won the CL either.
Oh and they had (and still have) a $300m deficit....
Ignoring for now that there was no Italian player in their starting eleven in the finals, which is another very sad point.

ofcourse money helps, but it also about being a team, it was the 2nd year for mourinho as coach for inter and even though he spent money(he sold zlatan which also made it possible) its not the money which brought inter the titles. they won vs a very dominatant barca as 10 men and they smashed bayren in the final, such wins are due to their overall team play.

That's more than a little help though. Inter had 6 fresh players on the pitch in the CL finals. Bayern had one (Robben).
Also never heard anything again about this: http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/figc-announce-investigation-inter-milan-deals-motta-milito-905461

possibly has to do with clauses in the contracts of militato and motta having to do with their clubs performance. such as bayern owning money to the previous club of neur because of the clubs performance.