Back in Premier League action for the first time since being found guilty of serious financial rules breaches, Manchester City entered the pitch against Liverpool to a predictably hostile reception from the Anfield faithful.
With accusatory banners unfurled, boos audible, and chanting reverberating around the stadium, many of the traveling City fans decided to put on a defiant display of their own with one particular aspect of their matchday counter-protests raising quizzical eyebrows among onlookers -- namely, the large number of inflatable bananas being wielded among the away section.
While looking like an ostensibly odd choice to those unaware, it was not a spur-of-the-moment call -- nor is it a recent phenomenon. In fact, City fans have actually been taking inflatable bananas to games since the 1980s.