Mancini demands more as City slip up again

NOT even Alex Ferguson would have expected the tables to have turned this quickly in the Premier League title race.

It is not even January, yet already it looks like advantage Manchester United.

While they, right on cue, have hit their stride for the crucial Christmas period after cruising to a 5-0 victory for the second successive match, City laboured to a stalemate at The Hawthorns as they failed to score in the top flight for the first time this season.