I didn't turn a defeat into a victory, I simply didn't include it, and the Stoke game pre-dates the fixtures above. You can excite yourself about semantics if you wish (and clearly you do wish), but whether our record was W2 D2 L4 or W3 D2 L4, it still wasn't exactly stellar. Even in the year we won the title, we garnered only 34 points out of 89 on the road, and last year I think (you'd best check, you seem to enjoy that kind of thing), we were down to 31. That figure certainly looks like falling further this season, but the point is poor away form is not exactly a new phenomenon. We are victims of our own ability to a degree, in that we have some excellent midfielders, who monopolise possession and ensure that we face more parked buses than any other side. Counter attacking, in the way Arsenal do, is a relative rarity for City both under Mancini and Pellegrini. The latter couldn't find a way through Cardiff or Sunderland's massed ranks any more than his predecessor could Sunderland's, Everton's or QPR. Furthermore, Pellers has had key injuries to Kompany, Silva, Nastasic, Jovetic and now Fernandinho to contend with, and Negredo has simply replaced Tevez. But there are no shades of grey for some of the knee jerkers on here, are there, only black and white. Let's sack the manager after just 11 games in charge, eh?!
