It's about the mentality. Most of those players would have come into the side knowing that it wasn't on merit, but that it's just an attempt to keep them happy as the majority of them are squad players. Man City's concerns are the Premier League and Champions League, anything else is a bonus. You'd also only have to look at how many of their fans turned up to the game against us compared to what they normally get to see that they weren't that bothered either. Oh come on, the City result can't just be completely dismissed. Ok we shouldn't read too much into it (just like we shouldn't read too much into the 4-1 defeat at Southampton) but it was a very good result and shows that we are capable of beating sides much better than ourselves.
That City result will be the highlight of our season, a one-off, much like the win at Chelsea last season.
Unfortunately the Soton game has been more like us this season, as we were also equally poor against Everton and not very impressive against West Ham either. How do you know it's a one-off? Can you see into the future?
No I can see our past record away at the top clubs over the last couple of seasons and that we haven't improved enough to expect to go to any of the top 5 or 6 and win in the league yet.
But THIS ISN'T THE LAST COUPLE OF SEASONS. It's this season and we have a manager now.
You might as well say that City are due a relegation soon because of their record.