Terrace Talk: Man City - Redemption and resurrection at Anfield 

City at Anfield has been an inexorable process of decay for many decades, the slow stiffening of limbs and the draining of blood towards the gravitational low point. That changed yesterday

Manchester City players celebrate on the pitch at the end of the Premier League win at Anfield. Picture: Tim Keeton

The filmscape for Manchester City’s 128-year history of grim and largely inefficient scrabbling at Anfield has long resembled a particularly bleak scene from a Fritz Lang opus. Inert bodies scattered hither and thither, scores of bent, leafless trees and the clear sound of thousands of people sobbing simultaneously. Was his metaphorical depiction of this painful journey in While the City Sleeps about to undergo a makeover, a City awakening at last?

City at Anfield has been an inexorable process of decay for many decades, the slow stiffening of limbs and the draining of blood towards the gravitational low point (I’m afraid I feel faint), until all life has left the body and it stiffens to a crisp.