Which banners did Liverpool fans display at Anfield against Man City?

From creative wordplay on song lyrics to simply calling Man City ‘cheats’, the Reds fans went all out at Anfield. Save Share It was billed as one of the most emotionally charged club football matches in recent years with Liverpool’s historically vocal and disapproving fans promising a hostile reception for Manchester City as the Blues played their first match after beingfound guiltyof breaching the Premier League’s financial rules. In the end, Manchester City walked away from it withthree points in the bagand smiles on their faces but not without facing scorn from the Reds’ supporters at their famed Anfield Stadium in Liverpool. The Blues evaded a much-anticipated “Anfield welcome” by avoiding the route usually taken by team buses driving into the venue. Instead, City’s bus was driven into the stadium via a different route and entrance, usually reserved for service vehicles on match days. While Enzo Maresca’s team avoided the flares, pyrotechnics and attacks on the bus that were meted out to City during their visit to Anfield for a UEFA Champions League match eight years ago, there was no escaping the chants and banners inside the stadium. The creativity of Liverpool fans was displayed on the streets lined with thousands of Reds fans before kickoff and inside Anfield once they unfurled their scathing banners in the stands. Here’s a selection of the best banners and signs displayed inside Anfield on Sunday: The most direct attacks since the Premier League’s independent commission’s guilty verdict was announced have focused on the finding that City “arranged ‘sham’ contracts” with a number of its commercial partners. Man City were found guilty of 114 of the 115 charges, giving Liverpool fans the chance to create a wide, strip-like banner that carried the word “cheats” but with the British pound sign replacing the “e” 115 times. The banner was held across the stand behind City’s goal. Liam Gallagher, lead vocalist of the British rock band Oasis, is a self-admitted lifelong Man City fan. Gallagher has been vocal in his support for City despite the charges and was among the travelling Blues supporters at Anfield. Liverpool fans picked on lyrics from some of Oasis’s biggest hits and creatively used them to mock City. The banner above takes a line from the hit song Stop Crying Your Heart Out. A little creativity was needed for this banner, which carried a stanza from the song Where Did It All Go Wrong?...