Very few, if any, other returning players have been booed at Etihad that I recall.
Indeed, most are cheered, when their name is announced.
That sums up the difference between supporters of Manchester City and the utter scumbags that follow Littlewoods.
Yes and rightly so. Millner wasn't booed because he ran down his contract and signed for Liverpool. That was his right and he'd given us good service during his contract here. Millner was booed because he belitted the club in interviews once he'd left. I've no idea why you needed to fetch him into the equation as the reasons why he's been booed and will continue to be booed whenever he plays against us have been done to death countless times on this forum.
It’s a myth that Milner was derogatory towards City.
Milner said in an in-house Liverpool interview, ‘Winning two titles at City, we had some good players, but as a team this is the best I’ve played in’.
He also mentioned something about the Liverpool team he was playing in had the best team spirit he’d ever played in (can’t find the quote).
Absolutely nowt wrong with saying either thing. It’s not even derogatory about City, it’s just being sycophantic to Liverpool/Lpool fans while he was at that club.
We plucked anything as an excuse to boo him in a retort to Lpool fans booing Sterling. I thought it was odd of us as a fanbase and I’ve given Milner a clap every time we’ve faced him since leaving when his name is read out before the game.
We’ve booed a number of other players, often for no reason n’all.
We booed Sturridge quite badly when he played for Chelsea and Lpool. All he did was leave because Hughes was playing Ched Evans ahead of him and Chelsea who were better than us at the time came in for him. He even didn’t celebrate when he scored against us (which I don’t actually like, get celebrating!).
We booed Dickov for celebrating scoring against us, who without we might still be in League 1.
We booed Distin and James for daring to leave us for a team higher up the league.
We booed Barton when he was still playing for us because he wouldn’t sign a new contract… he
was a wanker though, even when he was with us he said his teammates were ‘substandard’, he battered Dabo in training and put a cigar out on Tandy’s eye at a Christmas do. So with him I can understand and I did boo him when he played against us for Newcastle.
Cancelo was booed when he was still our player, on loan at Bayern, and the truth hadn’t even come out about what had gone on with him at City… we just decided he was now the enemy.
We have treated some ex-players poorly with booing them when there was no reason to. Most sets of fans are similar across the board though, and we aren’t much different to any of them.
I think a number of our fans are treating Savinho poorly at the moment n’all.
