Collymore labels Man City 'CHEATS' amid their 115 charges

Stan Collymore has taken a dig at Manchester City following their elimination from the Champions League by Real Madrid.

Pep Guardiola's side lost on penalties to the Spanish giants after their quarter-final tie ended 4-4 on aggregate.

It means there will be no Double Treble for City, who were hoping to go back-to-back in the Champions League after finally winning the competition for a first time last season.

However, City's successes in recent years have been overshadowed as they were charged with 115 alleged breaches of Financial Fair Play rules and regulations last February, covering a period from 2009 to 2018.

City deny the allegations, and earlier this year the Premier League revealed a date had been set for the hearing on the accusations.

However, Collymore - who played for the likes of Nottingham Forest, Liverpool, Aston Villa, Leicester and Bradford in the Premier League - wasn't afraid to mock City after their European exit.

Posting on X, he shared photos of Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest, Liverpool and Celtic lifting the European Cup.

Accompanying the shots, he said: 'Don't forget kids, you're only a big club when you've won the European Cup, and you're only a really big club when you've done it without cheating.

'Innit fam. Brrraaap braaap.'

Collymore is a boyhood Aston Villa fan and one of his photos refers to Villa's iconic 1981-82 European Cup final triumph, with Dennis Mortimer lifting the trophy.

Forest have also won the competition on two occasions, in back-to-back campaigns in 1979 and 1980, while another of the shots sees Mail Sport columnist Graeme Souness celebrating with the trophy while at Liverpool.

Collymore's latest dig at City comes after he called for the Premier League to throw the book at them when