We came for you Feb. 23, 2007

The Manchester City match at Wigan Athletic before Christmas was not just remarkable for the abysmal truly awful except Joey Barton and the debutant performance by City, but for the mass protest by the City fans who boycotted the match because of the price of tickets. These of the same merry brigade that dragged their humour through the lower divisions during City’s most recent decline.

The City fans should be honoured. And they have brought down the prices of tickets at matches.
For you.
They would have paid – wherever they were playing. But they did it for the game.

I took a great picture of them at Preston last Sunday, blue flattened balloon rising above the crowd, sun in their faces, bananas in hand.

Now their brothers in red are revolting.