Last weekend's derby aside, it's almost guaranteed that Manchester will be blue come the end of the season.

Pep Guardiola's men need five points from their remaining six games - starting against Tottenham tonight - to take the title out of United's hands.

With their third Premier League trophy in seven seasons on the horizon, there's no longer any doubt that the Citizens are just "noisy neighbours" as Sir Alex Ferguson once depicted them.

The animosity between the two clubs has intensified with City's rise since the 2008 takeover and the recent game at the Etihad saw plenty of sparks fly.

Ashley Young went lunging in on Sergio Aguero, while both sets of players clashed near the end in a heated exchange.

Generally speaking, the Red Devils seem to rather enjoy playing across town, having gone unbeaten against City on their patch since November 2014.

The Sun report that their fans may have to get used to making the short trip across the city too. The newspaper have it that amid talk of Old Trafford being redeveloped, City are happy to have a ground-share. 

This isn't entirely unprecedented as United played at the old Maine Road when the Stretford End was bombed during the Second World War.

Not many viable options 

Ideally, supporters would always want to avoid that scenario. There was talk of Spurs playing at Arsenal during their season away from White Hart Lane, but the north Londoners were spared that because they have Wembley at their disposal.

For clubs in the north, of course, the national stadium isn't an option, leaving the Etihad - which ironically, is loosely translated from Arabic to mean 'United' - as potentially the best option.

Old Trafford is comfortably the largest club ground in England, but next season, its capacity will be reduced to 73,300. It pales in comparison to Barcelona's Nou Camp, which houses over 99,000 and is set for further building work. The Santiago Bernabeu holds in the region of 81,000 as does even Borussia Dortmund's Westfalenstadion.

The club's managing director Richard Arnold has confirmed it is the Sir Bobby Charlton stand which would be expanded, adding:

“It would be a multi-season challenge and it isn’t certain that there’s a way of doing it which doesn’t render us homeless.”

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