I think we've been rumbled! People have discovered that we've been paying refs and officials all along, ever since the takeover. They know that every single Premier league ref is on our payroll and that Webb and co have been operating behind the scenes to ensure that only City are permitted to win games, week in week out, and that the other clubs (especially the poor, downtrodden, woe-is-me dippers who never ever get a bit of good fortune from refs) are being ripped off by the Sheik (or as we call him, Blofeld: 'cos he's the head of a sinister organisation bent on world domination and the total and utter destruction of all our sporting competitors).
I think people started getting suspicious when Howard Webb and some of his pgmol lackeys did the conga at our last Christmas party, all around the Etihad singing 'Blue Moon,' at the top of their voices. Or maybe when Webb became suicidal when Kevin retired and he stood alone in the pgmol offices and cried like a little baby because his 'beautiful Belgian bunny' would no longer be lighting up the Premier League.
Either way, it was good while it lasted, and we would have gotten away with it if hadn't been for those meddlesome kids interfering, going around in a van solving mysteries and all that.