You’d think that celebrating the career of one of your club’s greatest players would mean the occasion revolves around that individual.
Well, that’s what normal football fans are like, anyway.
Manchester City fans are a different breed these days, however, as they proved during Vincent Kompany’s testimonial on Wednesday night.
The game had barely kicked off when they started singing about Steven Gerrard’s infamous slip against Chelsea, despite it happening five years ago and having no relevance to the game whatsoever.
It took these Liverpool supporters no time to start mocking the Etihad crowd on Twitter, claiming it sums up their current obsession with the Reds.
There's been some really bad ones, but I honestly reckon City fans singing 'Steve Gerrard, Gerrard, he gave it to Demba Ba' during Vincent Kompany's testimonial has to be one of their most embarrassing moments of the past decade.
— Empire of the Kop (@empireofthekop) September 11, 2019
You begin to almost pity them. I hope they're still singing it in 20 years, it will mean they still can't focus on and love their own club. https://t.co/QMvwlnHYoA
— Henry Jackson (@HenryJackson87) September 11, 2019
Man City supporters singing about Steven Gerrard at Kompany’s testimonial. We’re gargantuan.
— – (@AnfieldRd96) September 11, 2019
Vincent Kompany: Captains Manchester City to four Legaue titles, two FA Cups and four League Cups
City fans five minutes into his testimonial: “Let’s sing about Steven Gerrard”
— The Anfield Wrap (@TheAnfieldWrap) September 11, 2019
https://twitter.com/JoeDaveGomez/status/1171862509252468740?s=20
Vincent Kompany’s testimonial, a game where there’s a squad of City “legends” playing, and the first thing the City fans chant is about Steven Gerrard.
Couldn’t think of a better way to summarise them
— Josh (@KloppStyle) September 11, 2019
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All that City’s fans’ behaviour proves is the threat that Liverpool have become under Jurgen Klopp.
They appear to think about the Reds morning, noon and night – something that conveniently didn’t happen back when they were struggling and not a direct challenger.
Liverpool fans could have no issue with them singing the song in the weeks and months after Gerrard’s slip, such is the tribal nature of modern football, but it’s now in the past and any mention of it is nothing more than embarrassing.
Frankly, it’s one huge compliment to arguably Liverpool’s greatest-ever player and further proof that Liverpool are living in City’s heads rent-free.
