That's awesome, Nigel, I'm a Manchester City fan here in Texas. I came by it more honestly than jumping on the bandwagon, though, I chose them as my English team when they hired me in Championship Manager. I think it was the 2001 edition of the game, it was when they were in the First Division as it was called then. So my first year of cheering for them was actually hoping they'd get back up to the Premier League.
Ironically enough, my brother then picked Chelsea as his club, so he and I now obviously find it difficult to explain to others that we didn't just pick them after they got great.
Anyway, yeah, I could understand Pelligrini just playing for the Champions League but that makes it pretty disappointing when you get eliminated like that.