Delap sinks City and opens the way for Arsenal in the Premier League

While City collapses after the sanction for breaching more than one hundred financial rules of the Premier League and its third consecutive defeat on Saturday, Arsenal has taken advantage of the run to usurp the top spot and sit six points clear.

City were winners in the first seven league rounds. Since the sanction a month ago they have only managed two wins in the domestic championship.

Nottingham Forest were their executioner in the tenth round. With three points they managed to get out of the relegation zone.

Delap, a former City player, scored two goals against his former team. He did it against the manager who coached his reserve side, adding salt to the wound.