Peter Schmeichel's Man City rant is lazy and dangerous - he'd know the truth if he spoke to a single fan

Surely, if you notice something isn't quite right you would ask why. You'd do a bit of research. Maybe canvass opinions of those around you.

You wouldn't be as irresponsible as to head straight onto live US prime-time TV to peddle lazy stereotypes and then get defensive when (barely) challenged. But hey, it's all good banter, right?

This is Peter Schmeichel's night when covering Manchester City's Champions League opener against Inter Milan for the popular CBS coverage in the States. Like the rest of us, he thought the game wasn't the blockbuster it was billed as. When he called it 'really, really boring', he was probably within his rights. After that, everything he said was ill-judged and lacking any basic research.

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"I like good football and I like excitement from the crowd. It was dead," he said, unprompted. "The Etihad today was absolutely dead. The only people we could hear were the Inter supporters who were quite good. But there's no atmosphere in the Etihad today.

"Normally you'd think 'well, a big European night', but it didn't happen for them." Schmeichel is a former City player, of course, but his allegiances are clearly with the other side of Manchester. When ex-Blue Micah Richards tried to balance a defence for City with the top banter required for every exchange on CBS, he meekly offered that the atmosphere was better at the weekend.

Schmeichel replied: "They might have left the atmosphere there on Saturday. Honestly, it was so flat." Jamie Carragher couldn't hide his smirk - and the tweet accompanying the