With a heavy touch of irony, Manchester City fans jubilantly began to dance the Poznan. Their team had stormed into a 7-0 lead against the self-proclaimed ‘original nosy neighbours’ Salford City, and so they turned their backs and began to bounce. For City fans, this was an unusually rare moment of celebration in a stuttering season and so the Poznan came with an air of satirical relief.
This wasn’t just a lopsided FA Cup spectacle - it offered a snapshot of two clubs synonymous with the transformative power of deep pockets. But both clubs, though worlds apart in resources, now find themselves at a crossroads, where fresh financial lifeblood in the coming months is key to sustaining the swathes of triumphs that have followed them, since their respective, and notorious, takeovers.
