On course for a sticky situation

The City kit boss and former Latics star writes every week for Chron Sport
NOTTS County made life difficult for Manchester City in the first 20 minutes of our FA Cup fourth-round replay, before the Blues eventually ran out 5-0 winners.

The visitors hit the inside of the post and produced a lively performance.

But after Patrick Vieira’s two headed goals there was only going to be one winner — despite a couple of injuries which saw Patrick’s head bandaged up and Mario Balotelli withdrawn with concussion.

It was nice to score from set-pieces, particularly corners, because we haven’t done that enough this season.

Aleksandar Kolarov has a wonderful left foot. In training his free-kicks are frighteningly good, which is a useful weapon to have.

If we beat Aston Villa in the fifth round we will host Everton or Reading in the quarter-final.

Obviously if we do end up playing David Moyes’ men, we will have to be on top of our game because Everton our are bogey side.

The Toffees have a tremendous record at Eastlands, as does their midfielder Tim Cahill.

We are back in Europa Cup action on Thursday, when Aris are the visitors for the second-leg of our last 32 tie.

It was 0-0 in the first leg. Hopefully we can finish off the job at Eastlands, which will earn a tie against the winners of Dynamo Kiev and Beskitas.