This reminds me of a sort of altercation I was in years ago. A colleague (Burnley fan), pissed up, starts lashing out at me because I’d stopped him doing things he shouldn’t at a party. It went on for a while, throwing punches, kicking out, and all kinds of aggressive behaviour, until the point, in fear of him landing, I could take no more and just sparked him.
Strangely, the small crowd that had gathered, mainly his mates who he had been abusing, were pointing at me as if I was in the wrong. Luckily, a copper came over, put his hand on my shoulder and said ‘Don’t worry, son. I seen it all and it was pure self-defence’.
Maybe a strange analogy but it reminded me of how long City stood their and took the blows without a word of condemnation from other clubs and the media, but when City decided enough is enough and throw the right-hook, putting the bully on the floor, they are full of indignation against the one that had taken it for all those years.
Thank God we have laws in this country, which don’t allow the bullies to get away with such behaviour, and they should now be thinking twice before trying it again.