After Manchester City won their second straight Premier League Title, they were caught on the bus singing a quite disgusting song about Liverpool FC.
The song Manchester City were signing poked fun at not only Hillsborough victims but also Sean Cox who was stabbed outside Anfield before Liverpool’s Champions League semifinal against Roma. The song also went on to say, “Kompany injured Salah” and “the Scousers won (expletive all).
Wow
— indykaila News (@indykaila) May 14, 2019
This is disgusting. #MCFC players Singing about people being 'battered' in the streets is low. Very low. Didn’t expect this from @ManCity https://t.co/ytBkAVXkYe
Everyone knows that Manchester City and Liverpool have a competitive rivalry, but is this just too much? Pep Guardiola’s side are a team with some established veterans letting themselves being taped singing this sort of nonsense.
Liverpool players, after beating Barcelona, sang You'll Never Walk Alone with the fans on the pitch.
— Stephen Drennan (@babuyagu) May 14, 2019
Man City players sang songs about a Liverpool fan being battered in the streets and put into a coma. https://t.co/ePpIEtMVei
It is not a good look for a City side who are also facing UEFA investigation which could see them out of the Champions League for an entire year. Liverpool would not even expect this kind of behavior from Everton or Manchester United, just because the content of the song is so cruel to a lot of innocent people.
Some of the biggest club rivals ever such as Gary Neville and Wayne Rooney would never be caught saying such filth. They have respect for tragedy and people’s lives. It is all in fun and banter to copy the famous Liverpool “Allez, Allez, Allez” and remix it to your team and season. The Citizens deserve a lot of respect for the season they played, but why this?
This will only add fuel to the fire in the future games between the two sides, and do not expect Liverpool or their players to take it lightly going forward. The club means everything to the players in red shirts and many of them have donated and supported Sean Cox in his rehab and recovery, from which he is still not 100%.
The video is already swarming around Twitter and will get much media attention over the coming days. Especially since former Liverpool starlet Raheem Sterling is in it, belittling the club that set him up for a career of stardom.
The bottom line is, why cannot we just respect the two great seasons these clubs have played? Instead of going at each other, raise one another on each team, sing about your teammates or a certain game. For football in England to keep dominating Europe we need competitive rivalries, not disgraceful ones.