I remember when we lost 3-0 to Southampton in our first season at COMS, a loss that looked as if it might send us down. Their first goal was a cracker causing the City season ticket holder sat next to me to leap from his seat and shout "Great goal". Then the enormity of what had just happened dawned on him. He sat down very quickly, muttered under his breath "well it was" before spending the rest of the match in silence with his head in his hands.