It's fair to say that things didn't exactly go to plan for Manchester City while Kit Symons was there. The Welsh defender joined a Premier League side from Portsmouth in 1995 and left, three years and several managers later, when relegation to the third tier of English football was confirmed.
If it was a shock for the Blues to lose their top-flight status after seven years, what followed next could scarcely be believed.
The club expected to challenge for immediate promotion and when that didn't happen aimed to achieve it the next year. Instead, they suffered two drops in three years to leave them languishing in the third tier.
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