“There’s no hatred in them,” spits Smith. “I f***ing hate it, me. You know the best match they played was against that Roma when they were all injured and the reserves played, in the Champions League. They put the reserves on and they beat them. I was out with some f***ing new City fans and they’re like Reds, the new City fan. You’ve never seen them before, they’re like 40-odd. We were doing the LP cover actually, and this d*** who was doing the LP cover, he goes ‘This is a foregone conclusion this game, Roma away. There’s no way were gonna win because Aguero’s out, so-and-so’s out, Milner’s out, that Dutch f***ing useless c**t, Kompany’s out.’ That’s what Reds are like. And they f***ing won! They won and he didn’t even notice. That’s what they’re like nowadays. In the old days, Mike Doyle or Malcolm Allison would have said, ‘Excuse me, we are the runners-up, and United are sh**.’ Mike Doyle used to hate Man United. He used to follow them and shout at them. He used to shout at George Best.”