MANCHESTER, England -- What a strange day in Manchester. It started with one club, Manchester City, worrying about their Champions League fate and ended with the other, Manchester United, in a state of anxiety about their own prospects when everybody else expected it to be the other way around.
City's success in overturning a two-year ban from UEFA competition at the Court of Arbitration for Sport was unexpected pretty much everywhere apart from the Etihad Stadium boardroom, but the verdict has added a late sense of jeopardy to the race for Champions League qualification via the Premier League.