Rampant City serve up their best yet

Manchester City’s Delph-dwelling roving reporter writes every week for Chron Sport

MANCHESTER City produced one of their best performances of the season in seeing off QPR 6-0.

With respect, the opposition wasn’t the best of the season, but on the day City were clinical, exploiting gaps and generally being superb in possession.

Manuel Pellegrini’s men are on a roll again now, and there’s no reason why they can’t maintain that

momentum and win the final two games against Swansea and Southampton.

The runner-up spot is still within sight, but Arsenal look likely to take second with their game in hand - they are playing really well too. But whether City finish second or third, at least they won’t have to pre-qualify for the Champions League group stage.

Seeing the QPR players looking so dejected at being relegated reminded me of my worst drop experience when I was playing. In fact I suffered relegation in successive seasons at Huddersfield in the early 1970s.

It was bad enough going from the first division to the second, but then we dropped straight into the third a year later. That was a miserable time.

In many ways it reminds me of the Portsmouth situation more recently: that has been a sad demise for a once-great, FA cup-winning club.

It didn’t work out too badly for me in the end, because the summer following the Huddersfield drop to third, I was transferred back to Latics, who were then in the second!

But my worst memory as a player came at the other end of the table, when I was at Bradford.

We needed only one point against Peterborough to be promoted. We could have gone up even if we had been beaten on the last day. But we lost - and all the others who needed to win, won. THAT was a really bad time!