Just for today, I’ll count myself as a honorary Manchester City fan.

Manchester City, of course, travel to Stamford Bridge to take on Chelsea in the early Saturday kickoff.

Since we knocked City out of the Carling Cup a few weeks ago, it all seems to have gone very quiet from over there. I certainly haven’t noticed any more provocative publicity stunts going on around the City Centre (such as the Welcome To Manchester Tevez poster) and, if I am quite honest, I haven’t noticed much football going on, even though they have played a few games since the Carling Cup semi-final.

In short and despite the fact that the team now costs five times more than ever before, they seem like the same old Manchester City to me.

Their away record has been pretty poor of late whilst Chelsea’s home record is second to none so I don’t hold out much hope that City will actually do us a favour and take a couple of points off Chelsea but the strange thing is, they just might.

They beat them quite convincingly at the Eastlands and, despite looking as underachieving as ever, they might just realise that they still have something to play for this season and give them another game here.

I won’t be putting any money on them but I will probably give the Red Mancunian air that surrounds my house a little punch should they take the lead at any point.

And if at the end of ninety minutes, they have restricted Chelsea to a point or less, I might even be moved to congratulate one or two of my Blue friends on their fine performance.

Here’s praying… (So this is how it feels to be a City supporter).

UPDATE: Something strangely predictable about this as City suddenly produced perhaps their best performance of the season to utterly thrash Chelsea 4-2 (they were 1-0 down at one point and roared back into a 4-1 lead.

This is the good old Manchester City… thrashed by Stoke one minute and then thrashing Chelsea the next. It will be interesting to see if normal service is resumed when they play their next match (away to Sunderland).