Kits!

Turns out I was wrong, the kit is on show on the website today but you can't actually get it until next month.

I think they're very good.

Maybe not as good as last year - although those were a very good set - but it's good to have got rid of that terribly unlucky purple shirt. The black and red shirt is smart. The rumours of an orange European kit are rather worrying though.

The players modelling the kits are no surprise: Micah leading the way, with support from (in rough order of descending prominence) Petrov, Benjani, Elano, Hamann and Onuoha. There have never been any serious doubts about any of their staying.

Hart was modelling the goalkeeper's kit, which doesn't tell that much. Even with the question mark over his future, he's still the goalkeeper most likely to be at City this season.

And no sign of Dunne or Johnson, who would surely otherwise have been there.