Craig Burley

I think the mental side of it is a big part of it, particularly when you get to this stage of the season.

And particularly when somebody's chasing you down.

Then it becomes into the realms of who plays on a Saturday and who plays on a Sunday or a Monday.

Because that really factors in.

You know, if you're Arsenal and you're playing on the Saturday, for whatever reason, you're playing the Saturday, you're two points ahead, you bang the win in, you go five ahead, you put the pressure back on.

But if you're Arsenal,

Arsenal, you're two points ahead and you're playing on Sunday and City are playing on Saturday and they win, you're now a point behind.

And that may seem like a very small thing to the fan, but from a playing perspective, and I had it when I was in Scotland in particular, when I was at Celtic and Rangers, because usually the teams didn't play on the same day because of television.

And it was so nip and tuck, one of us was playing on Saturday, one of us was playing on Sunday.

And of course you know what the other one's done, and whatever the other one does, generally piles the pressure on.

So those are the little nooks and crannies that this is going to come down to.

Yes, the cup final.

Yes, how tight it is.

And who can get their nose in front early each weekend to put the pressure on the other team to ask the question?

That's the position that City want to be in.

Whether they will be or not, I think that's a big, there is an argument of whether they'll be strong enough.

But if they are, that's where I'd want to be.

I'd want to be playing on a Saturday.

I want to be playing first every week to put the pressure on Arsenal and see how they cope with it.

Particularly the players that go down.