Chelsea the only ones smiling

I KNOW we shouldn’t laugh but, a bit like the spectacle of a top banker having his gleaming motor repossessed, the sight of everything that can go wrong going wrong for Man City is a guaranteed source of schadenfreude in these bleak times.

But chuckle while you can – especially if you’re a gurning Gooner – because, with one major caveat, I’d still fancy City to finish above Arsenal come season’s end.

A 3-0 defeat at home might read like an obituary but the peculiar circumstances of yesterday’s match at Eastlands – it really was a blue moon showing – suggest it won’t be long before we’re seeing a correction to the effect that rumours of Man City’s demise are premature.