The thing with this, that has irrevocably shaped the black humour approach that most of the City fans on here have, is that aside from the late 60s and early 70s when we were genuinely very good, we’ve been generally found the most ridiculous ways possible to be so bad as to never have bottling it become a potential issue.
It’s only since the richer “traditional” clubs with all their “history” drove the concentration of wealth and prestige at the top end of the game to a point it became so ridiculous that a nation state decided it could use it to sports wash its image and bought us out, that we’ve entered into this conversation.