With the Rags it was "Let's hope they win everything for football's sake!"
No, let's try "Boredom's sake", nobody wants the Premier League to end up like for example Ligue 1 or the Bundesliga with the same winner every season.
Now it's "Can City be beaten?!", said in a tone in which that person really wants it to happen, and for the Rags to be up there again someday.
I'll never forget when before a commercial break, Sky put in massive letters "Next: Galaticos", before a game against the mighty QPR. That same season they went straight back down again and miserably.
That Beckham documentary in which BBC News has them as a main headline as if everyone was behind them, sums it all up really. With us, it was "Can United get in City's way?" before the cup final. They really wanted United to still keep their status as the only Premier League Treble winners going.