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Man City fans to unfurl ‘Where Did It All Go Wrong?’ banner at Bernabéu

Stephen Large

Football News

5 months ago

Manchester City fans are planning to unfurl a new banner for the second leg of their Champions League last 16 play-off at the Bernabeu.

It follows last night’s 3-2 defeat by Real Madrid at the Etihad which leaves Pep Guardiola’s side facing a European exit.

City fans started the evening by unfurling a huge banner taunting Madrid and Vinicius Jr for their reaction to Rodri pipping the Brazilian to last year’s Ballon d’Or.

The banner was emblazoned with ‘Stop Crying Your Heart Out’, the words of a hit Oasis song, accompanied by an image of Rodri kissing the Ballon d’Or at the ceremony Real boycotted in protest over the decision.

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However, City fans were the ones in tears after Jude Bellingham’s injury-time winner gave Real the advantage in the tie.

As a result, the City faithful have decided to take a new banner to the Bernabeu when the teams meet next Wednesday.

‘When we had a look at Oasis’ back catalogue, we felt ‘Where Did It All Go Wrong?’ would be more appropriate for the second leg’, one City of 13 years told Paddy Power News.

‘Although ‘Going Nowhere’ and ‘Just Getting Older’ were also strongly considered’.

Asked why they chose ‘Where Did It All Go Wrong?’ as the Oasis song for the new banner, the fan explained:

‘It pretty much sums up not only the tie, or even the season, but the club in general right now’.

‘And where exactly did it all go wrong, you might ask? Rodri’s injury? When Haaland told Arteta to stay humble? Or is it the fact Man City is by default a perennial yoyo club whose recent success predicated on oil money and dubious financial dealings was never going to last?’.

In related news, Pep Guardiola was spotted outside the hotel where City chairman Khaldoon Al Mubarak is staying with a banner of his own reading: ‘Put Yer Money Where Yer Mouth Is’.

‘Give me 9 more years and another billion quid and you’ll have your second Champions League’, the Spaniard was heard shouting.

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