Manchester City victim of Hustle

Filthy rich no hopers Manchester City have been 'stung' by the production team behind the BBC One show Hustle. The show (Monday nights 9pm, pictured above) which follows the antics of five con artists who steal from people who have made/stole money through unfair means, targeted the moral less club after Club Idiot Garry Cook boasted that they would soon be the biggest club in the world cos ''we've got loadsa money innit''.

The 'con' depended on Middlesbro winger Adam Johnson moving to Eastlands for as much cash as they could drag out of them. It started when Albert Stroller played by Elderly actor Robert Vaughan 'set up' the con by talking loudly on a phone in a restaurant about ''potentially the best player in the world ever....called Adam Johnson'' while Garry Cook and the Arab fella were on the adjacent table.

The 'convincer' played by ex Holby City actress Kelly Adams then set about confirming Johnson's status as one of the best players in the world when she joined Stroller at the dinner table and dropped the 'bombshell' that he is a direct descendant of Stewart Downing!.

On hearing this discussed the underhand City duo could be seen whispering to each other and rubbing their hands together as all the best TV criminals do when a opportunity comes their way.

The evil Mancs then 'googled' Johnson and found that his agent was the aptly named Maurice Dealer. Unbeknownst to them though they had visited a website mocked up by the TV Show and the agent was non other than Michael Stone the groups leader, who confirmed that Johnson was being sort after by the cream of Europe's best clubs....... Real Madrid, AC Milan and Steve McClaren's FC Twente. He then mentioned that a Spanish manager (played by Robert Glenister as the fixer) was 'very interested' in doing a deal for Johnson as soon as possible and would probably be paying £24 million for the player. He snared the duo though when he said for a 'cash' deal of £7 million up front and in full he would make sure Johnson signed for City before the end of the transfer window.

Falling for the con they drew the cash out of the nearest ATM and paid the £7 million to Stone who said he would arrange Johnson (played by ex Eastender Matt Di Angelo) to turn up for training the very next day. When this didn't happen, after much soul searching Cook contacted the police, who confirmed that the real Adam Johnson is in no way worth £7 million, as ''anyone could look as good as him in the Championship''.