Posted AT 6:00 AM EST on 04/09/08
For the love of soccer and money
It must be some comfort for white van man, the archetypal English working-class football-obsessed male, that some of the cash that disappears into his tank is now heading back home. A Gulf Arab tycoon has just agreed to buy Manchester City, the Premier League football club, sister to the more prestigious Manchester United, for almost £200-million ($376.7-million).
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