What a terrible night.Vedran had acres of space lots of the time,but by the time we saw it so did spurs.GUTTED we should have beaten them.CTID AND BEYOND

Some of the negativity in the previous reports makes me embarrassed to be a City fan, some of the people commenting on this performance are clearly not Blues, I've seen some comments citing a lack of passion!!!! From where i was sat there was no lack of passion or effort, we just came up a little short.

The players couldnt have given anymore, if you've got nothing positive to say don't comment at all, one defeat at home alwasy brings out the negative muppets.

What is it against tottenham thats 8 games in a row we`ve conceded 2 goals and they`re the ones with a dodgey defence? I like everone else had high hopes of reaching Wembeley. Do we freeze with fear in quarter finals and against spurs, I`m well disapointed sick infact sick as a pig.

If anything this shows we need a forward come January.

If anything this shows we need a forward come January.

Vassell garbage,Vassell utter garbage,Vassell would struggle to get into Derbys team he is that garbage.I guess the point I am trying to get across is that Vassell is garbage.Etuhu should have started.

Richards's main weakness as centre back is his positional play. Garrido is better going forward than defending and is also suspect positionally. How many goals conceded this season have come down that side of the pitch? Ball is a better defender than Garrido, Corluka better positionally than Richards. Play Richards at right back and we get his powerful surges back linking with Ireland who would also cover Richard's in a way that Petrov does not cover Garrido. Play Corluka at centre back, Ball at left back and Garrido left side midfield. If that make s Petrov a sub impact player or second striker so be it.
Disappointing last night but credit to Spurs for a job well done. Referee was poor. Never a red card and Malbranque should have had a red. Johnson was pushed in the back - penalty not a dive. Hart had only one save to make and Robinson pulled off two excellent saves. We have come a long way in a very short time. The future is bright blue. Keep the faith - Merry Christmas.

when you consider we would be playing Everton in the semi-final it must go down as a real missed opputunity to progress to at least being ina cup final, still,onwards and upwards,theirs still plenty to play for this season, last night was dissapointing but lets get over it and help lift the lads for the rest of the campaign!

The ref ruined the game in my opionion- sending off was debatable, although as no injury was caused a sturn yellow would have done - Malbranque (2nd goal scorer) should have been sent off, Dunne should have got a penalty (I think his first sending off decision influenced all his others from there on in- i.e he lost his bottle). After the sending off Spurs closed up shop and we couldn't get through !! We kept giving the ball away in midfield through lazy long ball passes. The dynamics of the game were decided in the first 20 minutes and the open cup tie I wanted to see last night did not happen !! Fair play to Robinson though, he saved them twice !! He's deffo lost wait and seems more agile, pitty he can't perform for England !!

Big questions have to be asked about this defeat. How could be get this game so wrong. To lose to a team who have been languishing for the whole season in the bottom half of the table and who for most of the game had 10 men. That's pretty poor. Everything was in place, we were at home, had Elano back and a full strength team. In the last few three or four games we have looked less than convincing. Why? With really difficult games coming up against Villa, Blackburn, Liverpool and Everton that January transfer window cannot come quick enough.

Spurs were really good last night. Berbatov is blessed with incredible skill and a pleasure to watch for a football fan. If only he was in City's team. And Robinson's two saves were world class. As for City, it is becoming very clear that we can't progress rapidly without a top class forward. Let's be very very clear. Bianchi is not that man. He's reasonably effective at holding the ball up but really offers no more than Vass or Mpenza. All are hardworking journeymen but all lack the requisite levels of skill and penetration. I think two of these three can be bench warmers but let's hope that Boj and Castillo can make a difference up front. I fear we need to spend really big though to get the all-important front man. As others have said though, although we've made massive strides, City are still three or four players from being a top side. However, the entertainment levels of the last two games have been great. Compare this to the dull fare on offer last season.

There is nopanic fellow blues. Putting the massive disappointment aside, we were beaten by the better side (Berbatov was immense - how refreshing seeing a player trying to stay on his feet at all costs). OK Tottenham are languishing in the lower regions of the league but last night they played very well - infact if Zakora hadn't been sent off, the game would've been over a lot sooner (Lennon dropped deeper and spared Garrido/Richards blushes). Having said that Elano should've scored in the first half and Robbo made 2 top saves.

We do need to have a little patience with our team though. Garrido/Richards are still very young and need to learn their trades. Sticking with them now will pay dividends in years to come. If it costs us a few games this season - so be it.

Look we're all dissappointed, but everyone who's doom and gloom get a grip. We have got to realise that we are not a top 4 side yet possibly not top 6 we will see but the progress from last year is massive and will continue. As someone who has followed the blues for 30 years I've seen last night many times before but the differance is that now for the first time ever I came away thinking lesson learned Frank nad Sven will get it right whether it be that we need a top quality left back or who should partner Dunnie at CH.Last night Castillo signed for us on loan, a top class striker IMO, he paid part of the fee to allow this to happen himself! I cannot remember things being so positive ever. So its ok to be down this morning but come on guys get over it, nothing has changed the future is still blue.

Despite the fact that Spurs have been languishing down the table, they are a quality side who have turned it around of late. Berbatov in particular was in a class of his own last night. So to beat them you have to play well. City didn't play well and didn't convert the few clear chances we had. It also didn't help that the ref got the sending off wrong and turned down one stonewall penalty and another probable one to make up for it.

The main problem when attacking was our whole front line was too static. Just camping on the edge of the Spurs area and waiting for the ball surrounded by defenders. The best way to beat ten men defending is width and movement. We lacked both for most of the game. Towards the end several players looked tired as well. Johnson and Elano in particular, looked to be struggling. Petrov and Geovanni and Corluka were the only ones who really tried to spread the play, but it didn't help that the formers passing was woeful all night.

IMO the real reason we lost last night is we have a very thin squad. Hamman, Elano and Johnson pick themselves if they are anywhere near fitness, because we don't have any real quality cover. The forward line also lacks a big target man. Hopefully all this will be sorted in the window. Disappointing as it was, we have to remember that this is still largely the same team as last year and a lot of the players in it are also very young and still maturing. SGE has worked wonders just to get them where they are.

We are simply not good enough and we have not played well for the last six games and we are in a false position in the league.

devastated! if ive ever been asked if id ever wasted anytime in my life, then i can now say 94mins on 18/12/07, i know im over reacting and i never gripe much but last night, joke, poor, words that wont get published- anyway im off to a new shop thats opening in town called total recall, heard they do good memory wipes, c'mon the lads lets bash the villians, and thanks to u blues last night for not booing garrido when taken off ect, its detrimental (however u spell that)

I knew we were in trouble from the very first kick. Spurs passed the ball around for 2-3 minutes from the kick off without a City player showing any inclination to try and get it back. We were lethargic throughout, playing at walking pace. The worst aspects of the Bolton performance all over again without the recovery and we had probably the easiest draw of the round. What an opportunity to miss.

Well somebody has burst my balloon for this week at least and I do wish the MEN would stop mentioning silverwear until we are actually in a Final or Europe until 1 game to go and we have a chance, because it always seems to be the kiss of death.

So how do we sum up last night. Firstly, I got sick of all the moaners sat near me, even after 1 minute they were moaning and groaning about things, you all need to get behind the team...you would not have thought we had won all those home games the way people were in the crowd last night. It was like they expected Spurs to just roll over like they were some conference side. Yes Spurs have had a poor start but they are far from a poor team who have finished 5th 2 seasons on trot.
To me the 2 main problems last night, was the lack of someone trying to force the issue and make things happen, and secondly we just could not handle berbatov, who was awesome. City started poorly, but you cant just blame Garrido for the goal and its unfair just to pick him out and say why wasnt ball playing etc, that still would have happened to ball, there was no pressure on any of the players in the build up and Garrido was left short. Again I have seen some more moans about Petrov. For me, only him and Geo when he came on tried to make things happen, and tried running at the players, too many others played the safe option stood still and passed when they didnt need to. When you play against 10 men, you have to make them work, but they didnt need to do a lot of chasing as we kept passing too early before a challenge was near or kept hitting them with our passes. Well done Sven for trying to change the game but I think he needed to instruct our wide players to stay wide, because if we would have persisted with that I think we would have got the goals, but we ended up being too narrow & Elano was dropping far too deep. I agree with other posters about maybe switching Richards with Corluka, but lets just remind ourselves of Richards age! He is bound to have a dip in form, so get behind him and help him back rather than slagging him off. Dont know where that stat came from on Sky that Spurs had 65% of possession coz 2nd half it was all City. Anyway, its not the end of the world and success with Sven wont happen overnight. Good to see us already getting recruitments for January and with Bon Jovi fit we will have some good options. Bianchi didnt get much service last night, but he is the type of player who comes alive in the box which is what we need.

Keep backing not slagging

Another thing that worries me is this,if we play like we did last night and the first half against Bolton we will lose the next three games Villa away and Blackburn and Liverpool at home.

Stevieblue(nobodys voice,but my own), Heaton Norris(nearly) i agree, the players had there heads down and never seemed to luck up to find space...Ref was appalling, City in my eyes didn't get any "rub of the green" no luck whatsoever but we did play with heart, just wasn't our day. Time to move onwards and upwards..

Crazy substitutions sven Bring on donkey drogba when we needed racehorse Utuhu and then when we were still desperate for a goal swop a defender who should have been changed in the first half, were these Faszacerley's choices? Elano wasn't fit shouldn't have played and ended up more in defence than attack he was so unfit. Hate to say it but this was a Pearce performance.

Blue Chris, On The Blue Moon - spot on mate the ref had a shocker and killed the game after 20 minutes. Being 1-0 up at the time Spurs didn't want to play football any more and just parked a bus in front of their goal. To be fair to Spurs they did what they had to do well from that point onwards. Despite all the blue possession we lacked the vision and creativity to open them up. In this type of game with our current team our best chance of scoring always looked like it would come from a set piece - unfortunately nothing worked well on that front last night.

Still I'm not too disheartened we play attractive possession and passing based football with a team who display a desire to win, a massive change from the start of the year.

Every season they find a new way of humiliating us.What do they have lined up for us in the FA cup?
Earn a replay and lose 6-0 at home to 9 men!!!!!
Please do me a favour and lose at upton park.
In my 46 years this was the most embarrasing home cup defeat I have witnessed.
It is now obvious that none of Svens signings are up to the rigors of premiership/English Cup football but worse than that is the way we are ruining Micah Richards by trying to convert him into a centre half. It's a carbon copy of what happened to Ian Brightwell who started as an attacking box to box midfielder and ended up a jack of all trades master of non having 'filled in' as full back then centre back.
If the club don't know his best position (and why would they when ALL city's younsters in the past have brilliant prospects at 18 and nowhere at 20)then sell him to someone who has proper coaching set up - don't ruin him!!!!!!

not read all the comments so aplogies if i'm repeating widely held opinions, but here's my fourpence worth. What was sven thinking? all he had to do was play the same team that finished against bolton and we'd have had a chance. trying to accomodate bianchi, vassell and elano in the same team was a mistake. city should've fielded a more solid team, with elano on the bench, there was too much at stake to try and be flamboyant, especially considering how inconsistent the team has been lately. any doubts about garrido were confirmed last night as well, the kid made a great start to the season but its all going wrong for the lad, time for michael ball to replace him as first choice left back. I know it sounds like i'm ungrateful and haven't acknowledged the success we've had in the league, but city looked like a bunch of chumps last night.

i cant believe spiderman knows anything about football. we are in a false position ??? not at all mate - you see, though we havent set the world alight of late the sad truth is that the rest of the premier league are crap...plain and simple. therefore we should be around the top 4/5 given the results weve had. stop moaning and get behind the team if indeed you support city.