Man City embraced their shame and laughed in the face of English football, no one knows whether their emphatic 3-0 win at Anfield matters. For now cheats do prosper, writes OLIVER HOLT

Manchester City delighted in a delirious dance with their own notoriety at Anfield on Sunday evening. The team belonging to the club branded the biggest cheats in English sporting history embraced their shame and laughed in the face of the scorn of the rest of football. On the occasion of their first public outing since they were found guilty by an independent commission of 114 charges of financial chicanery, City defied the revulsion that has been visited upon them and waltzed past Liverpool , the team which suffered most from their cheating, with a comprehensive 3-0 victory.