I've never understood how this bunch of jokers managed to get anyone at all watching them, let alone attract the fawning media coverage they used to. As for Manchester City Council making public money available to them, that was truly shameful.
It's true enough that their fans are deluded. They're a third-rate tribute act pure and simple, so should be laughed at mercilessly. They're no more entitled to be taken seriously as sharing a common genesis with their parent club than someone doing a turn as Elvis at Batley Working Men's Club is to claim he and Presley are true kindred spirits.