When it was only 1 club that were threatening the "elite" clubs it was welcomed as a fairy story, still 4 CL places to scrap for, so the likes of Arsenal and Tottenham still had a chance of jumping on the gravy train, so the 4 became 5 , City turned up fucked up the chances for the likes of Arsenal and Spurs chances of regular CL football.
Newcastle have just fucked up their chances even further, but what has been shown is its all down to good club management , you only have to look at those complete fuckwits over in trafford that money doesn't mean everything , City are a self sustained club , which the stupid cunts who constantly slag the club off for cant see.