Manchester City fans – and the rest of us – have long had the
fallback jibe that no Manchester United fans are actually from
Manchester. But this story undermines their credibility by showing the
consequences of the belief that City are very much a Manchester club.
A Citeh fan who went to the aid of a West Ham supporter being beaten
up by two men in City shirts was himself stabbed. The thugs didn’t
believe he was a City supporter because he didn’t have a Manchester
accent.
The stabbing victim said: “The West Ham fan was with a little boy who was clearly upset. I think it might have been his son.
“I walked over and said ‘lads, that’s out of order’.
“But then one of them turned on me. He kept calling me a Cockney – I
am from Nottingham and he wouldn’t believe I was a City fan. He was
drunk and asked me what it had to do with me. I stepped in to stop them
and one of them hit me from behind. Another then hit me with a
screwdriver.”
He spent two days in intensive care with a damaged lung.
The incident happened after the two sides met in the Premier League on 1 May.
Via MEN
http://www.offthepost.info/2011/05/manchester-city-fan-stabbed-by-fellow-supporters-because-he-didnt-have-a-local-accent/