ItwasJune29, 2006, USinflation was running at 4 per cent, stock marketshad beenrising unremarkably for 18months, and everybodyknew the rise was coming.
City, on the other hand, hasn't won the English title since 1968 and played unremarkably for the better part of four decades until Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi royal family bought the team in 2008.