A month. Quite a long period of time, when you think about it. Mere days seem to last forever sometimes, so a month is pretty lengthy, really.
Things you can comfortably do in a month:
Stop smoking by going cold turkey.
Lose at least a stone in weight and become considerably fitter.
Watch your favourite film (on average) 400 times.
Fly around the world 25 times.
Or...
Watch City play three times.
If the Premier League had planned it that way, they couldn't have hijacked our season much better. Apart from the Fulham match, we have been pretty abysmal, and I put that down firmly on the shoulders of our players lacking match fitness. I'd not put it past the Premier League to punish City for Mancini's transgression with Taggart's Puppet the other day by delaying our start to next season by two months, then forcing us to play catch-up in January, when we will have to play someone every day for two weeks to make up the lost ground. That'll be one in the eye for the Noisy Neighbours, eh?