LONDON: When Chelsea met Manchester City in only the fourth game of the season, the match was played against a backdrop of speculation surrounding City’s prospects of upsetting the established order and breaking into the top four.
Then, Manchester City had just pulled off the audacious coup of snatching Real Madrid’s Robinho from under Chelsea’s noses, confirming that the Eastlands outfit had supplanted their opponents as the Premier League’s big-spenders following the takeover by the Abu Dhabi United Group.
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