shortcuts badge  Can money buy success?  Never mind fossil-fuel
oligarchs or US food magnates. The big money has finally arrived
in English football. And it's arrived, oddly enough, at
Manchester City. On Monday the club announced it had been bought
by a United Arab Emirates consortium fronted by Sulaiman al-
Fahim, friend of Leonardo DiCaprio and a man who is apparently
10 times richer than Roman Abramovich.  Afroth with ambition,
the new owners have already promised to win the Premier League,
the Champions League and probably the Glenrothes by-election
too. City, without a major trophy since 1976, now appear poised
on the verge of unceasing global domination. Can this really be
right?  History suggests it might be. This is football, where
the rule that you don't solve a problem by throwing money at it
simply doesn't apply. This hasn't always been the case.
Famously, Celtic became European champions in 1967 with a team
of players all born within 30 miles of Glasgow.  In the years
since, the professional game