Terrace Talk: Man City - We're no longer a lame Anfield duck

Those fans at Anfield in 1981, 2003, and 2021 are the only ones to see City triumph on this side of Stanley Park in the last four decades, but this pulsating draw brought Guardiola’s men tantalisingly close to adding another to that all too brief list

Manchester City's Kevin De Bruyne celebrates scoring the equaliser at Anfield. Picture: Peter Byrne/PA

The poet Mark Doty once talked of the courage to love against the certitude of loss and, although he was not thought to be pronouncing on Manchester City’s 129-year history of execrable performances in Liverpool, you would be hard-pressed to ignore the Anfield Allegory.

He did not, as far as we know, write about the imperfectly shaped egg that is Manchester City, out of which have emerged any number of lame Anfield ducks down the years, ducks who have consistently waddled into the killing fields and keeled over with nothing more audible than a quiet quack.