Off to Leicester tomorrow, for City’s away match. Reasons to be excited:

1. Watford don’t play tomorrow, so IF we win, we’ll be 6 points clear of them, and at least 3 points clear of Stoke. And, of course, still top.
2. There’s going to be a huge away following, making a lot of noise.
3. The manager of Leicester is Ian Holloway, another manager that City fans love to hate. All together now, “HOHHHllaway, what a wanker”(repeat to fade, with childish grin).

Leicester are the only team that can beat us twice this season, so a draw at worst would be very welcome. We had a bad day when they came to Ashton Gate, losing 2-0, in easily the worst performance this season. Leicester weren’t much better, so let’s hope they haven’t improved – because we certainly have. I saw on www.Football365.com a piece about our prospects SHOULD we get promoted (our odds are 6/4 at the moment, so a lot of people clearly think we will). The expert opinion is this:

“How Would They Do In The Premier League?
Frankly, they would be embarrassing. While this season has been little short of miraculous, Derby would look like world beaters compared to this lot. Aside from maybe McIndoe and at a stretch Sproule, the prospect of Bristol City coming up against Man Utd and Arsenal would be equal parts terrifying and hilarious.”

Well, bring on the terror and the hilarity. And surely the point is not how we would cope with Man United and Arsenal, but how we would get on against Middlesboro, Reading and Bolton. Games between the Premier League’s “Superclubs” and the ordinary (proper?) football clubs are almost a foregone conclusion (although there’s always room for an upset), but even with the current squad, we would certainly not be embarrassed by the rest. Being written off as over-achievers has suited us well until now, and the sense of anticipation is really growing. This time last year we thought there had never been a better time to be a City fan. We were wrong.

But it’s not all good news – I read today that Scrumpy the Robin, the City matchday mascot, is not a real robin at all, but a man wearing a robin suit.