Terrace Talk: Man City - Reds can’t wriggle off the hook as city stays Blue

The lost soul who had decided to go fishing in the canal alongside the revamped Cottonfield Wharf near Bengal Street an hour before the match probably did not realise that — standing forlornly by the stagnant ditch with a two-foot piece of fibreglass — he might be representing any number of pre-match metaphors.

By Simon Curtis