Bolt from the blue as City surprise us twice

TWO things I never thought I would live to see happening on one day — City fans behaving like old school gents, and the Blues winning at Old Trafford.

I was at infant school last time they did it, just months before signing up to the Red cause, and thus on that scale should be well into my pensionables by the time they do it again. They deserved it though: no bitterness from this quarter.

City were the better team for starters. And one might almost go so far as to say the Berties deserved the win in light of their unexpectedly good behaviour, and after several years of increasing unluckiness in these OT derbies, not least the 1-1 draw a few years back when Andy Cole missed a last-gasp chance to end the hoodoo.