A great cricketer. One of the greatest performances in sporting history at Headingley. He was a wonderful, opinionated expert on cricket for Sky - the complete antithesis of anodyne Jamie Redknapp. Also a big City fan and often mentioned City on air long before we were good. RIP blue.

Yep, despite early promise Stones isn’t going to make the standard needed at City.

Did the first two not tip you off?

On the whole I reckon Fern is decent in defence and will improve as he gets used to it. My concern has been more with the form of Stones and Ota. Seems Pep can't make his mind up between them either. Rodri had his best game yet last night which was very encouraging and I think it would be a mistake to start playing Fern there again now.

I was hoping Garcia would be given his chance, but that jus wont be happening despite last nghts sub appearance.