All this talk about title this and title that is complete loss. One loss/draw or two puts us right back in the pack again.

Yes, it’s our best start for many seasons but that means nothing unless the gap between us and the rest is huge – and that can only happen if our run is sustained and long ie in May 2009!

On Everton/Standard Liege and us – I accept the point you raise (as i was thinking the same as I watched last night). Luckily for Everton, Fellani (?) is with them now as SL would have seriously turned them over. Would be interesting for us to play SL now that we appear to be hitting a good vein of form.

If our run is not long and sustained – or god-forbid Stevie G or Torress get injured – then for sure we’ll be returning to the ownership issue with some gusto.

I have to be honest and say for a fleeting moment I wondered whether Jim was not posting due to the ownership issue BUT within moments I thought better of it. If it were true, Jim has never bottled having that discussion with us over the ‘net. So why would he now?! Hicks will believe he still has arguable lines/arguments and (if Jim were his ‘net messenger) would want his PR machine to test them out.

Man City on Sunday will be an interesting game. Us against the money that we hoped to have ourselves. Us against Robinho costing £30m +, the kinda money Hicks and Gillett promised we could spend on Snoogy Doogy if Rafa wanted to. I look forward to Jim one day answering my burning question: of the money the club spent this summer on transfers, how much of that transfer budget actually came from H&G and how much came from Rafa’s dealings in the transfer market and success in EPL and Champions league?