Get the day's biggest stories sent direct to your inbox so you never miss a thing The 7,000 travelling Blues fans had endured a dismal afternoon.
Ten-man Blackburn Rovers were about to turn Man City over in the quarter-final of the FA Cup, 2-0. For Anthony Phythian it was too much.
Suddenly his roly-poly figure, oddly dressed, strode onto the pitch. READ MORE: Jack Grealish set to play with "favourite player ever" if Man City transfer goes through "The picture of me on the pitch in the white boiler suit is at Ewood park in 2007," he recalls now. "We were losing an FA Cup quarter final and I decided to invade the pitch to protest and even get the match abandoned.
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