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Which banners did Liverpool fans display at Anfield against Man City?

It was billed as one of the most emotionally charged club football matches in recent years with Liverpool’s historically vocal and disapproving fans promising a hostile reception for Manchester City as the Blues played their first match after being found guilty of breaching the…

Which banners did Liverpool fans display at Anfield against Man City?
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It was billed as one of the most emotionally charged club football matches in recent years with Liverpool’s historically vocal and disapproving fans promising a hostile reception for Manchester City as the Blues played their first match after being found guilty of breaching the…

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Instead, City’s bus was driven into the stadium via a different route and entrance, usually reserved for service vehicles on match days.While Enzo Maresca’s team avoided the flares, pyrotechnics and attacks on the bus that were meted out to City during their visit to Anfield for a UEFA Champions League match eight years ago, there was no escaping the chants and banners inside the stadium.The creativity of Liverpool fans was….

The banner was held across the stand behind City’s goal.Liam Gallagher, lead vocalist of the British rock band Oasis, is a self-admitted lifelong Man City fan.

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Gallagher has been vocal in his support for City despite the charges and was among the travelling Blues supporters at Anfield.

Liverpool fans picked on lyrics from some of Oasis’s biggest hits and creatively used them to mock City.

The banner above takes a line from the hit song Stop Crying Your Heart Out.A little creativity was needed for this banner, which carried a stanza from the song Where Did It All Go Wrong?

A number of the titles that City won during the charged 2009-2018 period were with teams built around global football stars.Liverpool’s supporters were among many in the Premier League who felt “cheated” during the years that City piled up domestic football trophies.

They made no secret of their feelings when given the chance at Anfield against Man City.Liverpool fans mocked the empire built by City’s former manager Pep Guardiola, who signed some of the biggest names during his decade-long run at the helm, which brought 20 trophies.Manchester City fans had their own way of mocking Liverpool.

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They waved inflatable bananas at the away end, a reference to a decades-long tradition when a City fan took a blow-up banana to a game in 1987.

It also served as a dig at then-Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard, who slipped during a match against Chelsea in the 2013-2014 season when the 0-2 loss to the London club set off a series of results that saw City clinch a come-from-behind Premier League title.

From creative wordplay on song lyrics to simply calling Man City 'cheats', the Reds fans went all out at Anfield.

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