The banner didn't bother me in the slightest. In fact I found the fact they didn't get the unintentional irony quite funny.
Most of them supported the rags simply because they were succesful and probably wouldn't have been at the swamp or followed them in any other meaningful way if they'd gone 35 years without winning a trophy. Yet they thought they were mocking us, who had stuck by City in numbers for all those fruitless years, when in fact they were mocking themselves.
Plus it proved the fact that both as fans and as a club, even when they were winning trebles, the PL, the FA Cup etc. they were still obsessed with us, even when we were not even in the same league as them. How small-time is that?
It also proved their hypocrisy beyond any doubt when they actively encouraged that banner as a club yet the Wilmslow Wino tore into Vicky Kloss over the Tevez 'Welcome to Manchester' poster. That's what irritated me. Like all bullies, they can give it out but can't take it.
Perhaps we should put our own version of that banner up, starting at "1"?