Man City can eclipse Manchester United thanks to Sir Alex Ferguson’s famous habit
The time has passed when Manchester United were the permanent reference point for Manchester City. If they used to be role models or targets, now they can seem more of a salutary warning. But at a point when City are four games from displacing United from the record books, from becoming the first team to become English champions in four successive seasons, the pertinent comparison may not lie with one of Pep Guardiola’s former teams.
Rather than his beloved Barcelona side, his City centurions or last season’s sides. They were United teams who won because they had won in the past, who became champions with a feel of remorseless predictability, but who benefited from what came before then.
