Manchester City at home. Get it over with.
The Saturday before Christmas used to see the lowest gates of the season, as shopping took precedence. You can thank Amazaon and ebay for getting you out of that, even if it is the early kick-off, which means that if you really want you can go Up Town for some presents after the match. The German Market’s still on, as it has been for what seems like about four years. If you look really hard you might find a German.
Look even harder and you might find a Manchester City supporter, because for all the glory they’ve bought and cheated their way to over the past ten or so years, they still haven’t managed to get many hunters. Not that that matters, because the supporters they’ve got are a reasonably despicable bunch. We say that every time we play them and we’ll keep saying it until it isn’t true, which will be never. In their squad they’ve got Kyle Walker and Scott Carson, who in his career has won a European medal on average every 3.2 European games. Both of them have been there for an age, even longer than the 115 charges have been around, and the North Stand will have been knocked down before they’re heard.
We’ll still have a few players out injured and a few out of form. Talking of which, Manchester City are hilariously shite at the moment. This means that a lot of our supporters are convinced that they’ll beat us because teams who are playing shite always beat us. It probably doesn’t happen to us any more than any other club and anyway, if it’s true that teams who are playing shite beat us then how come Small Heath haven’t beaten us since decimalisation? They’ll still be shite on Saturday, we’ll win and the festive season can get started. Do they still have Father Christmas at Lewis’s?
