Under Stuart Pearce's idiosyncratic stewardship 10 years ago, Manchester City managed to create a number of records as unwanted as they were hideous. Going eight games at home without scoring a single goal was matched ingloriously by scoring just 10 goals in the 19 home games that season. It was like watching cheese go off.
Although Pearce complained of having little money to spend, what cash he was given to bolster the goal-scoring side of things he splurged on the dubious talents of Bernardo Corradi, Georgios Samaras and Darius Vassell. Seldom can a top flight club have had such a delicate striking trident as this.