1. Giggs, Scholes and Ferguson will be retiring soon

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2. Philip Neville is on a free transfer this summer – perfect for your team’s assault on the 2013/2014 title

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3. Van Persie COULD go through another bad patch

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4. They get Fabio back next season

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5. Hawkeye will be introduced next year, meaning they won’t be able to get away with incidents like this anymore

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6. Your club gets to travel to more exotic locations (Iceland, Albania) against Europa League teams

(United players won’t get to visit many Icelandic volcanos next year – Jon Gustafsson/AP/Press Association Images).

7. You can use the classic ‘at least my club didn’t buy the league title’ line (N.B. Does not apply to Man City, Blackburn or any team that has actually won the Premier League)

(The Glazers: actually pretty generous with their cash – Dave Thompson/PA Wire/Press Association Images)

8. Your team’s games are so much more exciting and unpredictable (unless you support QPR, in which case you lose nearly every week)

(QPR manager Harry Redknapp during the Barclays Premier League match at Loftus Road – Sean Dempsey/PA Wire/Press Association Images)

9. David De Gea may be one of the best goalkeepers in the league, but he’ll surely get arrested sooner or later

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10. As Roberto Mancini says, City are the better team, they just couldn’t be bothered applying themselves this season

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11. Next year will be Liverpool’s year

(They have Luis Suarez after all – Nick Potts/PA Archive/Press Association Images)

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