THE POINT WE KNEW UNITED FEARED US
IN a 2011 derby, Wayne Rooney scored an overhead kick to win the match for City’s rivals. Yaya Toure still took the positives. ‘When Rooney scored that goal, they celebrated like they were playing against Barcelona. At that time I felt like United had started to fear City,’ Toure says. ‘It’s like me and my brother — if I always beat him, day after day, after that you don’t have a feeling, because you know you’re going to beat him. You don’t have to be so happy or proud of yourself. ‘When Rooney scored the goal all his team-mates were celebrating like crazy. It was a beautiful goal, but the feeling I had was, “We’re going to go on top of them because they take us very seriously now”. They could see City were coming.’