Terrace Talk: Man City - We’re now on dash for knockout glory

Down with the bunting, box up the tinsel. The league is over and we can all relax in the afterglow of our trophy gluttony. No late-campaign jitters, sleepless nights worrying about goal difference and whether our little star will shine brightest. It’s over and everyone knows it is.

But this is Manchester City, the team put out of the cup in a quagmire at Halifax by the curse carefully laid by a wall-eyed soothsayer called Romark, who the following month drove blindfold into a police car in Southampton high street to confirm his unique skillset.