In over 30 years as a City fan I thought I'd experienced every kind of cruel let-down and deflated hope imaginable. Just goes to show, there's always something worse.
Make that 40 years...
And just because you know something is going to happen, doesn't make it any more difficult to bear.
After being top 6 for virtually every minute of the season to be let down in such a way by a team of gutless, spineless COWARDS...
Best chance for 40 years, and it's gone, in a heartbeat.
Too many players with no heart and no bollocks.
Say goodbye (reluctantly) to Ross, Roger and Joe.
Hopefully we can also say goodbye to Heaton, Enckelman, Taylor, Capaldi, Kennedy, McPhail, Parry, Whittingham and Dave Jones.
I've not been a Jones-basher up till now, but ultimately the buck stops somewhere, and if you cannot motivate your team to take more than one point from 12 at the most critical juncture of the season, then you have, in the words of the tabloids, "taken this club as far as you can".
Steve Coppell anyone?