All the City fans in the pub were chanting across the pub "You're not singing anymore" as the final whistle sounded. The usual banter followed, so I decided I'd had enough and me and the girlfriend went back to my Nanna and Grandad's house.
Of course my Grandad and Auntie are Blues. and as soon as I walked through the door I heard that laugh echo from the living room. My grandad couldn't wait for me to get home to give me the old "you may be champions but..." speech .
Then on the other side of the coin there is the joys of a Derby Day, like in 2006, where Manchester United beat City 3-1 at Old Trafford. This time it was our turn to do the chanting and the mandatory banter.
I couldn't wait to get home to stick the proverbial two fingers up at the blue half of my family. The form book simply doesn't exist in these games.
They call Manchester the city that never sleeps. That is true. It is also the city where the derby rivalry never sleeps. The passion is always burning even when it is the off-season the banter still floats about.
Sometimes it's heartbreaking, sometimes it's like marrying the most beautiful woman alive being a Mancunian football fan, but I would not change it for anything in the world nor would I pick the other side if I had the choice.
Forget the Merseyside, London, Madrid, or Milan derbies, for the Manchester derby is the best and most passionate derby in the world, and that has only intensified and increased since Sheik Mansour has piled his billions into our bitter rivals. Our hunger to show our rivals that money can't buy trophies is that little bit greater.
You can ask a United fan what they think of City fans, and they will say we hate each other and vice versa but that is not entirely true, because it is friends and family who support the opposition, so hate will never be a factor.
Ask me if I hate a City fan, and I will tell you it's more of a love-hate relationship, a bit like having a girlfriend. You can't live with them, but you can't live without them, either, as they are 50 percent of a magnificent occasion.
It is just pure passion and hunger that it boils down to and it is mainly laughs and jokes. All this is why I consider the Manchester derby to be the greatest derby in the world.
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