MANCHESTER City fans have paid £3,000 to have a plane fly over Old Trafford during April's Manchester derby trailing the taunting message to United fans: 'You're the pride of Singapore', referring to United's far and wide fan base.
United fans wanted to do the same thing with the message: '25 years and still coming', alluding to City's failure to win a trophy in that time.
Two things strike me about this new tangent on fan rivalry. One is that United fans were never going to beat their City counterparts as it's quicker to reach a Manchester-based plane company from Wythenshawe than the Home Counties and secondly, with so much money involved how is it neither set of fans could think of anything funny to say?
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