It hasn’t always been big bucks and glory with foreign players in the blue half of Manchester. IAIN THOMSON looks at one of the most bizarre periods in the club’s history when three Georgians followed in the footsteps of Georgi Kinkladze…

FOREIGN players pack the Premier League season after season. Players from 95 different countries have played in the English top flight.And according to the website myfootballfacts, from the Premier League’s inception in 1992 to the end of the 2010-11 season 2,992 players had made at least one appearance – 1,289 of t...