Well, it could be worse. I could be a Man City fan. I could be Gregg Wallace. I could be a protester in Georgia. Not the US state of Georgia, I don’t think they’re likely to want to join the European Union at this time, but the country of Georgia. Near Russia. Bit too near Russia probably, which is why there’s trouble.

But can you imagine being a Man City fan right now? You’ve won the league 10 times in about the last 15 years, they won FA cups, the Champions League, basically, they’ve been unbeatable. As ya would be if you pumped 3 billion quid, illegally, into any football club. Rochdale could be winning at the Bernabau if they could find themselves an unclaimed Emirate to back them.

And then someone pulled the plug. The greatest club team in the world just… just isn’t any longer. They’re a pushover. Three points for playing them. ‘Caaaan we play you every week? Can we play you every week’, etc.

So you’re a fan. With possibly the biggest sense of entitlement since Celtic were invented. And your team have turned to shit. You have the best players in the world, the best manager in the world, ok, one or two injuries, but who hasn’t? And you can win a game. Last 7 games; 6 losses and one draw. But that draw, in Europe last week, was possibly the worst result of them all. 3 nil up and cruising. And then Feyenoord came back and scored 3 very late goals. That’s demoralising. That hurts beyond mere pain.

So what do you do? Go back to supporting Man United? Like you did before City ‘evolved’? Or just accept that ‘all things must pass’, and City’s time has passed? Do you register for ‘assisted dying’ on the grounds that in 6 months, because City won’t lift the Premiership trophy, then ‘its terminal’? I almost feel sorry for them. As if.

Liverpool beat City easily yesterday to take a commanding lead at the top. But Arsenal look quite scary at the moment and Chelsea are a team possessed. Of both great players and a new, positive outlook. Oh joy. My two favourite teams vying for the league with the scousers. Who, if they don’t win the title, will demand at least one public inquiry. They always do.

Spurs, fresh from beating City last weekend, couldn’t beat Fulham. At home. A draw. Not just any old ‘draw’, but a really fucking annoying one. There’s eight teams all within 4 points of each other, and we’re among them. So a win would have been nice. But we don’t really do that.

Any chance we can play City again? We need the points.

Happy Monday. Unless you’re a City fan. They don’t have happy mondays any more.

A xxxx