Worst ever defeat since the 50's. Bloody hell.

Evans stopped us from winning that match. Evra lost the match for us. I don't know what he was told to do in this game, but if SAF told him to be absent at left back, he did that pretty well. Seriously - check his positioning for every one of the last five goals. What happened to him? Our attacking wasn't actually all that bad and our possession in the first half was high. But in defence, we just suffered - and badly. I think we have okay centre backs, more than okay. But we need a defensive set of fullbacks because ever since we sold O'Shea, we've been tit in those positions. Smalling has been okay. Rafael and Fabio are incredibly injury-prone and while good against teams like Arsenal and to be honest, I'd expect them to hold their own against Barcelona, City and Chelsea on the odd occasion, okay. But not every game. We need a defensive, reliable set of fullbacks - tall ones, if possible. Never thought I'd say it a few years ago, but I think it's time we sold Evra. We need fullbacks, and the sooner the better.

City ripped us to shreds in the second half and they did it down the right flank.

And yeah, Evans, done it before and will do it again. We have Vidic, Rio, Smalling and Jones. Why is Evans playing when he's prone to this sort of thing? When he's last defender, I expect him to do something bad, and that's not a good thing. All the other players could have done better, but those two, argh.

Credit to City and credit to Mancini. He found our weakness and punished us completely. I'd be even more gutted about the game but I'm still on a bit of a high from the Rugby World Cup. =]