I’ve supported Man City for fifty-eight years, maybe more. I haven’t got Sky this season, but today I can watch on my son-in-law’s tablet while the girls put on a film. Volume low, subtitles on (me, not them). I’ll sit between blankets and crumbs, one eye on the score, the other on their cartoon plot. At sixty-three, I’ll take it: the girls first, City second.

