City's Achilles heel, they are. In the league, they've taken 5 out of the last 18 points against them.
Fuck it. For me, the plain and pure inevitableness of Liverpool winning the whole God damn thing has been growing for weeks and was merely confirmed with the victory on Sunday. I was expecting a City slip-up at some point; I just figured it would be at Everton.
Anyway, I never got a chance to come in here last week and talk about something that will leave me as gutted as City possibly blowing the league: Micah Richards' departure. The dude made his debut for City one week after I started following the club. He was responsible for my first warm and fuzzy City memory (see below; I also can't forget the subsequent F-bomb on live television) and for a little while, was the unofficial leader of this crop of young English players City had stashed away (Michael Johnson, Ishmael Miller, Nedum Onuoha, Daniel Sturridge), a group of promising talent that I believed (probably rather foolishly) could lift the club from its rather blase, not-good-enough-for-the-top-half-of-the-table-but-not-bad-enough-to-be-relegated status. For a little while, Micah Richards represented hope, the promise of something slightly better. I can remember how thrilled I was when he made his debut for England and was openly discussed as the successor to Gary Neville.
Of course, City got that slightly better future (and then some). Richards didn't quite live up to his early promise, but was a solid contributor (particularly during the title-winning season from two years ago) before injuries and the ever-reliable consistency of Zabs made him obsolete. He will be missed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu0wBFBSnls