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Beyond the 'Emptyhad' Jokes: Searching for the Soul of Manchester City

Mary D's Beamish Bar is so close to the Etihad Stadium you can hear the team announcements from inside.

A two-storey white-brick building with a flat roof, barred windows and a team of burly door staff in orange hi-vis vests, Mary D's teems with supporters before every Manchester City home game. But with kick-off looming in the second leg of City's Champions League quarter-final against Tottenham Hotspur, the crowd has thinned out almost completely.

In an area just inside the entrance, a dozen people sit around tables, their eyes fixed on a large television screen mounted on an interior wall above a pair of flickering fruit machines.