Not sure that was the case. Ellis Short pulled the plug on all the funding. They were given next to no money to spend that season, I think they spent a total of about a million bringing in James Vaughan and Jason Steele - the rest of the side was made up of free transfers and loans, so that...
They've got their work cut out - I think I counted about half a dozen howlers from him in this doc.
By the end, his confidence was absolutely shot to bits.
Its everything that polished, airbrushed promotional Man City BOREFEST isn't.
It taps into the club, the players, the employees, the fans, the community, the city, perfectly. What you DON'T get is the fly-on-the-wall dressing room scenes which were (initially) fascinating at City but rapidly...