Man City fan who made Yaya Toure's Periscope masterclass possible - and you still owe him a pint

Manchester City return to Premier League action at Crystal Palace on Monday, with Selhurst Park the scene for plenty of memorable days out over recent years.

There was Edin Dzeko’s early opener in 2014, just after Steven Gerrard 'let it slip' in Liverpool’s defeat to Chelsea on the same day, Kelechi Iheanacho’s injury-time heroics in summer 2015 and Yaya Toure’s surprise return and match-winning brace in Pep Guardiola’s first season.

Toure loved Selhurst Park and he also netted a trademark free-kick to cap a 3-0 FA Cup fourth-round win later in the same campaign.

That game was a Saturday 3pm kick-off and, as such, fell beneath the UK’s football broadcast blackout. For many City fans, it will be forever known as the Periscope match.

“I posted a picture of me or the ground or something on Twitter and a few people started replying saying ‘film it’,” City fan Josh Chambers told City Is Ours , recalling a day when he became the unlikely hero of the online City community.

“So I thought, ‘why not?’, got Periscope out and started streaming. Then it just started to blow up - I think because people were looking around and there was nowhere else streaming it.

“Even my dad stumbled across the stream. I hadn’t told him where to look or anything. It sort of crashed my phone a little bit, I couldn’t do anything with it and it started overheating.”

But it wasn’t just Josh’s friends and family members who were relying on his device lasting the course after Raheem Sterling put City ahead late in the first half.

“I looked and it was about 86,000 who were watching it live, which was a bit mad,” he said.

“There were then another 30 or 40-odd thousand who watched it on replay. I don’t know what the final number was.”

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