I was asked once by a southern based rag who'd had enough of my lifetime's devotion to City - "go on then choose: England win the world cup or city Win the FA cup."
Because that spastic knew fuck all about the subject he was shocked when I said the latter. It was a gut reaction and I still don't take it back. England winning the world cup would make me delighted but either the win over the clay heads last year or our at the death from the jaws of defeat result on 13/5 are still in the realms of semen stained under crackers and way beyond anything that could be called delighted.
So this brings me to my point. If Italy had lost to us and we had progressed for one more game to our eventual doom against the krauts would Italy have decided enough was enough and gone shopping for Bobbino?