4.7 billion

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http://edition.cnn.com/2012/05/14/sport/football/football-manchester-city-middle-east/index.html?hpt=isp_t3

As Manchester City's delirious fans spilled onto the pitch to revel in their team's remarkable English title win on Sunday, the celebrations also kicked off thousands of miles away in Abu Dhabi.

In one cafe in the United Arab Emirates capital, some fans stood and danced, one even leaped onto a table, while others simply smiled contentedly as they puffed on their shisha pipes.

City's dramatic 3-2 win over Queens Park Rangers was beamed to an estimated global audience of 4.7 billion in a powerful advert for just why Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan splashed out $320 million to buy the English Premier League club in 2008.

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know its from CNN but thinking about it, must be a typo... maybe 470 mill?
surely worth a few shirt sales and explains how a club like liverpool sells 900,000 shirts a year and yet only 8 people up there have jobs

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2/3 of the world's population?

Probably not.......

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Hahaha 4.7 billion??? What a crock!