As a Manchester City fan, there are few better things in football than beating Manchester United.
No matter the competition, the stage of the season or how well City play, only one thing matters on derby day and that is winning. Pep Guardiola's side did just that on Sunday having lost three consecutive home derbies and it felt so good.
What makes beating our neighbours even sweeter is the meltdown United's fanbase goes into whenever they get dominated by the Blues. After years of looking down on City and finding new ways to inflict pain, the tables have turned and they just cannot take it.
This is nothing new of course; City have been better than United for the best part of a decade now. Over the past 10 years, City have won five Premier League titles, six League Cups, one FA Cup and have played in a Champions League final.
By comparison, United have won the Premier League once, won one FA Cup, one League Cup and one Europa League. But still, United fans cling to the past and argue their side's superiority. It's understandable to be fair but pretty desperate nonetheless.
Perhaps the most prominent of voices banging the drum for the Stretford mob is Patrice Evra, former United and France left-back.
Evra has become quite the social media star since his retirement from playing in 2018, his 'I love this game' catchphrase becoming a meme and providing the title for his autobiography.
When he's not been kissing raw turkey carcasses, the Frenchman has often used his Instagram page to taunt City after United's derby-day triumphs.
However, at the weekend it was Micah Richards' turn to give Evra a taste of his own medicine. After annoying Gary Neville and Roy Keane by celebrating City's win in the Sky Sports studio, Richards took to Instagram after the match to ask Evra "Where's your Monday morning video?", referencing Evra's famous Monday motivation posts.
Typically for someone associated with United, Evra could only respond by referring to United's past glories.
Performing a cover of Oasis hit song Wonderwall while driving his car, Evra sang "I said maybe, you're going to win it [Champions League] when I'm ninety, and after all, you're my noisy neighbour!"
It was all good-humoured from Evra, but really? Is City not winning the Champions League yet the best you can do? In the past, he has claimed that City will always be in United's shadow because 'I have the same number of Premier League titles as them!'
I mean, that's not really a surprise is it, Patrice, given the state of City's finances back in the early 2000s? Even back then though, Evra didn't enjoy playing City as much as he'd have you believe.
Evra made his United debut in a 3-1 defeat to City in January 2006, a match that saw him substituted at half-time after Trevor Sinclair ran him ragged in the first half.
The echo chamber that Evra, Neville et al contribute to is one of the reasons why United are still stuck in their post-Sir Alex Ferguson rut, nine years after he retired.
They always hark back to United's past successes and some mythical style of play known simply as 'United DNA'. Until they wake up and start living in the here and now, United will struggle to ever reach City's current level. Long may that continue.
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