Who are we?

THEY say the league table doesn't matter until Christmas, and surely City have proved now they're real contenders for a Champions League place next season.
Just three days into the new year the Blues are back in the top four, after a tough run of games over the festive period that could have burst the bubble on our season.
All season, fans of other football clubs - mainly Liverpool fans who still think it's the 1980s - have refused to believe we're no longer a laughing stock, and that any minute we'd be found out and would start plummeting down the league to mid-table obscurity.
Well, after finally winning away from home to complete the double over Newcastle last night we're back to where we've been for most of the season - in the Champions League places.
Okay, so Liverpool still hve a game in hand, but that's not so much of a threat when the side who started the season thinking they could win the title can't even beat relegation-threatened Wigan in front of the once-intimidating Kop.
After crashing out of the League Cup to our bogey side Tottenham (my Spurs-supporting mate texted me the next morning to say they'd win the league if they played us every week), we played three of our rivals for a European place - Aston Villa, Blackburn and Liverpool - and didn't lose to any of them.
And going into the second half of the season, we're still unbeaten at fortress Eastlands.
Elano had lost form, they said. The rest of the Premier League had figured out how to play him, they said. We had lost the one man in our one-man team.
Scored last night, didn't he?
Then, the second goal last night showed we've got a manager who can influence a game with his tactical nous, unlike when Psycho was in charge. Kelvin Etuhu and Gelson Fernandes combined to make the game safe - both substitutions, both young talents, one hand-picked by Sven-Goran Eriksson and the other given his first-team chance by the Swede.
We were kept in the game by Joe Hart's save from Michael Owen - which again is credit to Svennis after he rightly stuck with the future England keeper over the undoubtedly talented Andreas Isaksson.
Our second away win of the season couldn't have come at a better time, either. The last side we beat on the road was West Ham on the first day back in August, and we play them again at Upton Park in the FA Cup on Saturday.
Want proof City are now a big club? Look at how Joey Barton's career has nosedived since he left. Barton, often amusingly described in the media as an "England" midfielder, might be out of jail for the time being, but Michael Johnson will play for his country before Mad Joey ever dons the Three Lions shirt again.
One last point - good to see Sir Taggart has finally woken up (is that the right term to use?) to the fact that the Theatre of Dreamzzz is as quiet as a funeral. We've known that for years!