I should caveat that we may have had illness in the camp which hampered team selection but having watched MOTD and seen many sides play full strength teams the lack of respect for cup competitions and our fans (who doesn't like a cup run) amongst successive city managers is really annoying. I loved our trips to Wembley in both cup competitions although I acknowledge a repeat of either needs a lot of luck, so why are so many of our managers, but not other team managers, so against cup games?

It's about time this club took cup ties seriously.