After the initial jolt of the Premier League fixture list coming out, without any easy games on it, I have felt better about City's top-flight prospects this week.
I set aside 150 minutes to watch the highlights DVD of City's 2013-14 season.
And what I picked up from watching it was that City were good. Really good.
Even better than I had remembered. It makes for really entertaining viewing.
Brilliant, pacy, attacking moves, highly accurate passing and superb finishing were our trademarks. There were many memorable goals.
Every year The Fox fanzine subscribers vote for their favourite goal of the season and this time round there were three that were neck-and-neck for first place.
Eventually, by just two votes, a winner emerged and it was Chris Wood's brilliant effort at Turf Moor, which saw him out-muscle a Burnley defender before sending a half-volley soaring into the top right-hand corner. As that made it 2-0 against the only side within touching distance of us, many of you said that was the moment you knew that we were going up.
In second place was Danny Drinkwater's late and spectacular equaliser at home to Watford, to cap a frantic comeback after City had trailed 2-0; and close behind in bronze medal position was Lloyd Dyer's cut in from the left and crashing shot at Bolton, which clinched City's first second tier title in 34 years. As one subscriber told us: "It made me cry with joy!"
There were many others, any of which could have won in a more ordinary year.
Andy King's 25-yarder at Blackpool; Anthony Knockaert's rising free-kick in the League Cup against Derby; Danny Drinkwater's low drive at Reading; David Nugent's sharply taken opener at Burnley; Jamie Vardy's winner at QPR and Riyad Mahrez's stunner at home to Blackpool.
There were even plenty of votes for a goal that never was (officially, at least) – Kasper Schmeichel's header at home to Yeovil ... we all know it crossed the line before Wood made sure on the follow up.
There will, almost certainly, be fewer City goals to enjoy this season, but things have got off to a good start. Go on YouTube and check out David Nugent's incredible curler round the keeper with the outside of his right foot from the Walsall game on Wednesday night. It made Drinkwater's 25-yarder in the same game look a bit run-of-the-mill!
Here's a fact that I quite liked. There are seven Premier League clubs with stadium capacities lower than the King Power Stadium. Southampton's St Mary's Stadium, being the same design, is just about equal to the KPS, So there are only 11 grounds bigger than ours. It demonstrates we aren't minnows in the top flight. More like a gudgeon, or maybe a dace.
