Manchester City played digital football. United are a dial-up version | Barney Ronay


Pep Guardiola’s Premier League champions took their game to a whole new level in the 6-3 trashing of their city neighbours

“Yeah, not bad.” With 44 minutes gone at the Etihad Stadium Manchester City scored a goal that brought the usual cheers and roars, but also something else, the urge to laugh.

City had already spent the first half playing football that seemed to have benefited from an operating system upgrade, demonstrating the latest miracle processor against a batch of red-shirted patsies.

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