All eyes on Anfield as tainted City return to the fray

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Scholes's considered response to this proposal was "Do one." The notion that Jose Mourinho might retrospectively be crowned a Premier League winning manager at Manchester United - he would be only the fourth in their history, with Ole the fifth - is certainly one of the funniest potential outcomes here. So that one day in the future when City were finally brought to book for their epic financial misdemeanours, he had already implanted in people's heads the idea that the runners-up were in fact the real winners.

Man City's hierarchy, of course, have come out swinging on this and are willing to use the various levers at their disposal. He also heaped praise on the City owners for their role in "the building of modern Manchester".

Burnham stressed that he wouldn't intervene in the Premier League disciplinary process other than to note that City contest the outcome and that his own club, Everton, hadn't been treated fairly under the same rules. Man City fans have been strangely quiet since the verdict, as if dumbstruck by it all.