Another away day, another defeat. Yes, that’s what the papers will report but this game was far from that. We pushed them right to the very end but, as what seems to be the case with us recently, we threw it away at the end.

Manchester City, the true epitome of what is wrong with everything in the game today, is never an interesting game and with our recent away form never promised much. A snow-covered Manchester gave us the belief that some of their boys wouldn’t fancy it until they saw our team sheet. Nosworthy vs Bellamy, hmm. Nice one Brucey. Hopes held high, due to a high level of alcohol, we ventured to the City of Manchester Stadium.

From the kick-off we were on the back-foot with Bellamy, Tevez and Santa Cruz running amok. It wasn’t long before Bellamy exposed Nosworthy, by running at him, crossing in for an easy Santa Cruz tap-in after four minutes and not too long after Nyron bundled down Bellamy for a penalty, which Tevez spanked in. So, two-nil after twelve minutes, class.

However, Sunderland then did something none of us expected and they scored two goals in eight minutes. The first being a cheeky header from Mensah and the second being a thunder bolt from Henderson. We’re back in this lads! And then Bellamy scored.

So, 3-2 at half time and after much pressure we equalised which sent the Sunderland faithful into dreamland, three goals away from home, who would’ve thought it. Just to bring us back down to Earth Santa Cruz put City 4-3 in front. As that goal went in our whole team seem to deflate. Questions still remain. Why was Nosworthy picked to mark Bellamy when he is clearly not quick enough?

In process of writing this report Mark Hughes has been sacked as Man City manager and in a similar ilk I am so glad my team isn’t run by a billionaire that have no idea about football. Man City deserve all they get for sacking a perfectly good manager. Idiots. Even though we lost, we have shown signs of improvement. Although, Bruce can you please never play Nosworthy again? Just a thought.

Final Score: 3-4

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