Mike Summerbee has come up with a novel way of stopping Manchester United next weekend.
City must score to avoid going down in history as the team with fewest top-flight goals at home in a season and Summerbee says locking United in their dressing-room until kick-off might help. He explained: "I don't think we should allow visiting teams to warm up on the pitch. Keep them in the dressingroom until just before kick-off.
Even some of the best players would bottle it having to run out in front of 40-odd thousand."
Saturday's game will kick off at lunchtime on Saturday after an appeal by United to City to put back the start time fell on deaf ears.
United wanted more time to recover from Wednesday's Champions League clash with AC Milan. But City boss Stuart Pearce said it would not have been right to make supporters change their travel plans.
"Supporters get a bit annoyed when games are moved," he said.
"They buy tickets and make travel arrangements and so for us to change one of our games from a Saturday to a Sunday morning wasn't really workable."