by Striker

WHEN the legendary Jimmy Greaves, all of those years ago, made that casual remark on TV that, “soccer is a funny old game”, little did he know just how near the truth he really was, for, as subsequent events have proven over the years,  the beautiful game has more ups and downs in it than one would find in a yo-yo.

If one needs any proof of this, one only has to look at the recent developments in the fortunes of the Premiership to find all the confirmation one needs to realise that Greaves really knew what he was talking about.

Before Christmas and well into the New Year, Man City were coasting along, seemingly without a care in the world, totting up the points and easily keeping their nearest rivals comfortably at bay.

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