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CHRIS WHEELER: It finished 3-2 again and that was about the simply comparison. Manchester City were never travelling to match the incredible heights of last May, but it certainly wasn't meant to get rid of like this.
With no Roberto Mancini on the touchline and no trophies showing for a campaign that promised a great deal of, the fans roared their support to your departed Italian and next, bizarrely, turned on Aleksandar Kolarov.
After referee Mark Halsey called time in the season and his private career, the Bolton official was handed as warm an ovation as many of the City players who traipsed for the pitch on a instead forlorn lap of complete.
Perhaps the greatest shame at all was that a fine performance from Norwich in addition to a fantastic winning goal from Jonny Howson were overshadowed through the fallout from a weeks time of tumult.
This ended up being, after all, only City's second home defeat with the league in 48 mmorpgs. That record was inadequate to keep Mancini in a very job and he will not be the only one to purchase a disappointing campaign when City await the advent of Manuel Pellegrini.
The City players fly off in a post-season trip to Nyc this morning with an awful lot of futures in mid-air. Carlos Tevez's two-handed wave to your crowd when he was replaced by Sergio Aguero will conduct nothing to quell speculation of the fact that Argentine may have trialled his last game to your club.
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