Match report: Manchester City 0-2 Newcastle United
A school of thought exists that whenever Manchester City have a slump in form, their supporters are secretly glad to be reminded of the days before their club was a superpower and they would be forced to watch through their fingers as the likes of Jamie Pollock and Lee Bradbury lurched from one farce to the next.
Citys potential for tragicomedy was unrivalled back then and surely their supporters are able to look back and have a wry chuckle at the various humiliations their team subjected them to before the money came rolling in. Yet it is not supposed to happen now. The modern City is supposed to have shed the Typical City identity and it should not be the case that it is still possible to detect a strain of what Sir Alex Ferguson labelled Cityitis all those years ago.
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