Dream scenario:
City lose vs Fulham
Arsenal beat Utd
Spurs beat City and therefore win the title. For us.
Nope, you're deluded if you think any professional sportsperson wouldn't do anything they can to compete at the highest level possible, least of all for the sake of (in Spuds' case) a pathetic local 'rivalry' in which they are a long-distant second-best and about which the players don't give a toss