City had a very good home record in 77/78, I’ve not looked it up, but I think we were beaten just two, possibly three, times at Ninian Park in the league - think Luton may have hammered us 4-1 as well. That win at Sheffield United was our final away match and it was the only one we won, we lost something fourteen of our twenty one away games.

A word about Dave’s prediction of us “bludgeoning”our way into the top six - the use of that word was understandable because that’s what we had been doing for years at this level, it was how we achieved any success in the Championship in recent seasons. The really concerning thing is that a team that is really poor by this division’s standards when it comes to the technical side of the game, has, very quickly, lost its ability to physically overpower opponents. Danny Gabbidon likened us to a dog that rolls over to have its stomach tickled on the radio on Tuesday, he also called us a soft touch, he was right and, while that continues, relegation has to be thought of as a possibility.