- City set the early pace in the league going 10-12 games unbeaten and are top 2/3 at the turn of the year
- sudden dip in form in the new year losing 4 out of 6 games, press having a field day, Andy Gray ecstatic
- come storming back into form winning 9/10 of the last 12 games
- finish on 83 points (W25, D8, L5)
- win FA Cup beating Chelski, Mr Chelski scores own goal
- Barry named footballer of the year
- Owen scores in first 3 games and is hailed as yet another 'masterstroke' of the genius
- Owen then out injured for 6 months but will miraculously regain fitness and form in time for World Cup squad
- Anderson finally scores a goal
- Real Madrid knock them out of CL with a penalty won by the lady boy's blatant dive
- Sir Alex Ferbacon loses it big time and says he was always a cheating ####, decides the writing is on the wall and 'retires' on grounds of ill health after getting hammered in the April derby
- fans revolt and american flags burned outside the Theatre of Broken Dreams
- crying in the streets of Seoul, Shangai and Essex
- red mancs suddenly declare they've always been blues