City fans can now enjoy the very best after seeing the worst...
Manchester Evening News|May 31, 2024
THERE'S a chant that inevitably comes up at City games home or away and Blues are always waiting for it.
SIMON BAJKOWSKI
City fans can now enjoy the very best after seeing the worst...

As soon as they are asked where they were when they were s***, they fire straight back 'beating you' not You would think that a club that can currently call themselves champions of world football would not particularly enjoy the reminder of the one year in their 134-year history that they were in the third division least because of the insinuation.

City fans have no need for such insecurities though because so many of them who were there to see them at their worst are now seeing them at their best.

Faces that were in Istanbul last summer were there for Wrexham, York and Gillingham 24 years earlier.

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