Creative accounting, la.
Their books are cooked.
Our potatoes are boiled.
Two clubs. One suspiciously similar shirt.
Who’s more famous,
ya daft bastards?!
MAN CITYMANCHESTERCity buys trophies.
BORAT FCKAZAKHSTANBorat sells potatoes.
Man City / Borat FCSame blue. Wildly different budgets.
MAN CITYMANCHESTERBORAT FCKAZAKHSTAN
← Man CitySame kit. Different overdraft.Borat FC →
Spuds pay the bills.
Borat’s transfer fund?
Whatever the potato stall made.
Already fuming.
“Which one’s City?”
“The expensive one, la.”
The match report / 01
Nice pass, lad.
Wrong payroll.
Same shirts. Same ball.
One ref asking for a transfer.
“Same shirts. One costs millions.The other smells of potatoes.”
From the archives / 02
Nine past City.
In Liverpool, la.
9EVERTON
1MAN CITY
“Nine–one? That’s not a result.
That’s a postcode, lad.”
Goodison Park · 3 September 1906 · First Division.
A joint-record eight-goal league defeat for City. Even the budget couldn’t save that one. City’s own match history ↗
Borat’s glory days / 03
Only eight.
Get in, lad.
8TRACTOR UNITED
1BORAT FC
“City let in nine. We let in eight.
Who’s the big club now, la?”
The Potato Cup · sometime in the 1930s, apparently.
Seven-goal defeat. One goal less embarrassing.
“And we did it on a potato budget, lad.”
Scouse commentary / 04
Same blue.
Different blag.
Big money. Dodgy sums.
Honest spuds, la.
“City cooks the books.
Borat cooks the spuds, la.”
“Dodgy books.
Honest local potatoes.”
“City’s got lawyers.
We’ve got receipts, lad.”
Last orders, lad
Who’s the real big club?
Pick a side. Give the group chat something to argue about.
Your pick only. No votes counted. No mates convinced.