I'll start by saying all 11 City players were fantastic last night - we pressed high up the pitch, our passing game's back and we actually had width to our play (credit Kolarov, Zabba, Johnson).
Still, for years people on here have riled about teams in the bottom half/Fat Sam going to Old Trafford and just throwing the game. Blackburn for me did that yesterday. 17% possession in the first half, 79 minutes before their first shot - for whatever reason, they didn't even try to make it a contest.
The Big Four might have been broken up - and I'm loving being involved in the title race/having a perfect home record (especially since I made it over to see a few games) - but I hope FFP and later (more sensible) reforms do actually make the league more competitive by eroding the hegemony of the top clubs. As great as this season is, I'd rather watch us win things in the next decade when starting from a more level playing field, rather than 10 years of playing keep ball with the scum, Spurs and Chelsea.
And for what it's worth, I don't begrudge one cent of the money spent since the Sheikh game in - after the hundreds of millions put down by United/Chelsea/Arsenal/Liverpool since 1992, someone needed to do something major to upset the apple cart. I just hope things somehow start trending backwards now, rather than heading closer to some bullshit European super league.