Colins Bellend said:
I think you'll find the motivation is with the opposing team because of Citys situation.It wont allways be like this but untill we establish ourselves we will be pretenders and all teams will lift their game against us
Whilst I understand what you're saying (and it's true), it is such a cop out to use that as an excuse for looking so lacklustre in recent weeks. If teams are raising their game against us, we need to be redoubling our efforts, not shrugging our shoulders and saying "it's not fair, they didn't use to try this hard against us".