The British are coming!

Well to be honest they are not really British, though they are disguised in blue ( though not Royal blue), a light blue, the colour of Manchester City, the other team in Manchester and just in case you did not know the "other " team is Manchester United, the team that has brought Football (soccer) forward 50 years in marketing and economics, on par with Major league baseball and American football and basketball, but brought football back 50 years in terms of style and tactics.
Anyhow, Manchester City apparently is supported by more fans in the city of Manchester than Manchester united and now they want to get some of that world wide support that Man U has had all these years. So what is the best way to do that? Play a radical formation with 6 strikers that score goals at will? Go out on foreign goodwill missions and export the game to underdeveloped countries? Play a free flowing attractive style that has never been seen in England? No, just get the Abu Dhabi United group to purchase the team and buy any player you want, the list of players they bought in the last few days is impressive and include Brazilian Robinho and English international Shaun Wright Philips. They will probably sign German striker Lukas Podolski in the new year and if they can get Italian keeper Gianluigi Buffon they might just have a team to pressure the big four in the EPL. The list of players rumoured by the English press to join Manchester City grows every day and reads like a world all star team. No team is safe from this British Invasion! If you have a striker who scored a goal last week in your pub league, odds are someone working for the Abu Dahbi royal family will be coming around next week to check him out ( though I am not sure if they are allowed to enter the pub?).
So why are these oil rich Arabs buying football teams? Why not buy software companies, why not help the less fortunate? Why not support Palestinians trying to break free from Israel? Why not buy American sports teams? Well the Americans still view the Emirates with suspicion, a recent attempt by Dubai Ports World to operate a port terminal in New York that handles just cruise ships, not cargo was nixed by public opposition. English football teams are owned by American Jews, Russian mafia and Chinamen.
The emirates have a soccer tradition that dates back to the 1970's and maybe before and includes a 1990 world cup appearance, they even have a beach soccer team! Some of the national team coaches include Roy Hodgson, Don Revie and Dick Advocat. So they must all be football mad supporters who just love the sport? These guys are all about making money and expanding their investments, I doubt they really care about football? They have a lot of money but it is not enough and to be fair they are not alone, did Bill gates stop after making his first billion? Have wal mart stopped expanding? No they need to keep going. Is buying a British soccer team going to make them more money? Probably not but I assume it is a good tax right off and it gets them into Europe or at least the UK? Look at McDonald's in Burger kings, they are all over England why not a Halal fast food chain? I would eat there! With this new visibility in England they have opened the doors in such a way as to befriend the English citizen ( oddly enough the nickname of Manchester City is... the Citizens) and not alienate them like the American population that views every Arab as a terrorist.