Man City cash in on Champions League win while rival fans fume

Manchester City continue to generate a lot of reactions for a club nobody else cares about.

Many fans of many other clubs will go to great lengths to tell you that there is no interest in City's success, starting detailed conversations about why there are no detailed conversations. The most popular reasons given for this tend to be that City have no history, no fans, and 115 Premier League rule breaches.

The Premier League charges do still hang over the club's head, and will do so - to the extreme annoyance of Pep Guardiola - until City's legal team have been able to produce defences for all of the many allegations that have been levelled at them. A guilty verdict will undoubtedly force a reassessment of City's recent achievements, although it is worth pointing out that the club are even more confident of being exonerated than they were when the Court of Arbitration for Sport overturned UEFA's investigation into their finances in 2020.

While that sticks uncomfortably in the air, the Blues have been busy winning football matches. A first Champions League trophy completed a famous Treble in June that sees Guardiola break new ground at an historic club.

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Bringing one of the game's superstars to the Etihad last summer in Erling Haaland added to the increased appeal of City, seeing them become more popular around the world as football fans wanted to watch the goalscoring phenomenon either in person or on TV. That has only been amplified with the club's second European trophy and first Champions League.

Interest in the team in the Far East this summer was markedly up on when they were last there four years ago, then over 30,000 tickets were sold for