David Wetherall wishes City had enjoyed a slice of West Ham's luck in their doomed fight against the drop.

The Hammers are favourites to clinch Premiership survival tomorrow having looked bound for relegation just over a month ago.

Their fortunes have been transformed by an amazing run of six wins in eight games, which began with a hotly-disputed winner against Blackburn that did not cross the line.

And as Wetherall waits to find out who will lead City into League Two, he regretted that his own team's hopes of staying up were never given a similar boost.

"The one thing we needed, which we couldn't do, was to win two or three games on the bounce," he said.

"You look at West Ham in the Premier League. They have managed to do that even though two out of the first three wins were fortunate.

"They won at Blackburn with a goal that could and should have been disallowed for three separate reasons. And they also beat Arsenal, who had so many shots, hit the woodwork numerous times and missed many glorious chances - West Ham had one shot and won 1-0.

"They won games there they shouldn't have done and probably didn't deserve to but all of a sudden they find themselves winning three on the bounce, confidence is up and everything snowballs from there.

"We've had the opposite so our confidence has tended to go the other way. We just couldn't string those two or three wins together that would have given us the belief to turn things round.

"We just needed those single incidents in games to go our way.

"A number of times we found a way of not winning a game that our general performance says we should have done.

"There have been off days but we've been unfortunate not to break that habit."

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