James Cooper

Yeah, I mean, it's an interesting situation.

You know, United find themselves in fifth and who knows, that might be enough to get them into the Champions League and it's certainly what Ole Gunnar Solskjaer wants to do and I think in terms of judging his

kind of managerial start at Manchester United is either a success or a failure.

I think getting Champions League football, no matter how it comes about, is probably one of those little ticks in the box or crosses against his name.

In terms of Manchester City, you know, they are desperate to prove that they are not guilty of these things.

You know, when UEFA set the ban in motion, two-year ban with a £25 million fine, they came back, fired back very quickly and said, you know, we're going to defend ourselves really rigorously on this.

We know it's gone to cast last week.

We know there were three days of hearings.

I'm told that Manchester City feel as though it went well for them.

You know, they presented their case well.

We won't know until the start of June, July, sorry, the first half of the month, how that's going.

But it's a really interesting thing.

You know, having spoken to a lot of people behind the scenes at Manchester City, there's a lot of fans.

You know, we saw the big protest banner last week in the car park at the Etihad Stadium.

I think most of them have resigned to there being some sort of ban, whether it's a two-year ban,

whether it's a one-year ban with one year suspended, I think the likelihood is certainly from the chatter up here that that's what they're looking at.

And I think that becomes very difficult because the last thing they want, of course, is A, Liverpool winning the Premier League title, their Premier League title as it was, and B, they don't want Manchester United coming into the Champions League at their expense.

So there's all those things kind of going on.

And within all that, of course, the future of Pep Guardiola and some of those players.

So I think what it's easy to do in this coronavirus sort of period,