Mancini's side only showed enough ambition when it was too late and by then battle lines were drawn as James Collins and former City captain Richard Dunne fought a magnificent rearguard action at the heart of Villa's defence.

It takes me several minutes to find my handbag in the tornadoesque mess that's my new home.

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Thorstein said, ‘There is one thing which I request, and that is the godord for my sons.’