Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern Football

Richer Than God: Manchester City, Modern FootballRicher Than God is an authoritative, emotional, provocative account of Manchester City's takeover by Sheikh Mansour, culminating in their remarkable last minute Premier League title victory in May 2012. By placing the club's extraordinary current rise in the wider context of its patchy modern history, this is also the story of English football's transformation from the battlegrounds of the 1980s to today's moneyed, seated, global entertainment. Conn

the shadow of the past is never far away

Rosenthal's masterful interviews

and a shootout in the middle of a Santa Claus convention ensue

The incompetence of British commanders causes the fall of the English government

`Very funny' William Boyd

three double-ended crayons and pages and pages of delightful fairy and princess landscapes

Lainey realises that everyone wants a happy-ever-after

including Churchill's Triumph

and are soon cloistered in a premature intimacy by the unrest roiling their city

and intellectually captivating

the author examines the complex and amazing growth of an unknown group of investors controlling trillions of dollars worldwide

the gripping trial-by-fire of 'going electric' with Bob Dylan on his 1966 world tour and their ensuing celebrated collaborations