Saints fan in peace.
Firstly, can I just say, I'm not here to gloat or anything, but having browsed through this forum a bit this morning can I just say you all need to get some perspective. I've seen a few of you talking about this being Citys darkest hour etc....you're reigning champions and second in the league for crying out loud. Just remember where you were a few years ago! I know you've spent a lot of money, but to be so down about being where you are seems like madness to me, and not what I expect from City fans - you're not United! (trust me, I mean that as a compliment!).
As for the game itself, I'm genuinely not massively surprised by the result. We've been playing well for months now without getting most of the results we've deserved. In recent weeks we have completely outplayed United away and lost, Everton at home and only drew, Chelsea away and drawn, and Arsenal at home and only drawn to name a few (and yes, we did outplay them, especially United). Yes, I have no doubt that City had a bad day yesterday, but a big part of that was Southampton's approach to the game. Ok, our goals all came from errors (Gareth Barry, football genius!), but even the most hardcore City fan will be able to admit we should have had at least a couple more, not to mention the penalty shout at the end of the first half. What has happened to Joe Hart this season by the way. Last year he seemed like the best keeper in the world...this season he seems error prone whenever I've watched him?!
As for the support, City fans were good. But St Mary's is a strange stadium in that it's usually pretty hard to hear any other stand other than the one you're in. The stadium was rocking yesterday in a way it hasn't done since the end of last season when we were heading towards promotion. Having Sky+'d the game and watching it back you can hear Saints fans more than City (although there did sound like prolongued periods where you could hear City more). The commentator was almost certainly commenting on what he could hear in the ground rather than what was coming across on the microphones. All in all both sets of fans did their bit in creating a good atmosphere yesterday.
As for "that Peter Kay song", it was nothing to do with beating City per se. It is in reference to Portsmouth who sung it when they beat us 4-1 when we went down in 2005 (with words, "we sent the scummers down"). Portsmouth have sang it for the entirity of pretty much every game they have played for the last 7 years...beating the Champions in live on TV was a good chance to let the blue few know order has been fully restored on the South Coast (although we have been singing it since the end of last season).
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhtMUyO5BU4[/youtube]
