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Manuel Pellegrini has given Manchester City supporters the go-ahead to keep booing the Champions League anthem … because it is has been lucky for his team!

Blues fans have vented their anger at Uefa before every game in the competition by jeering the music which is played ahead of every game in the competition.

Some feel that the supporters have made their point for past grievances, and that they should now forget their grievances and focus on getting behind the team in their quarter-final second leg against Paris St Germain.

But Pellegrini smiled when asked about the issue and suggested that the Blues have topped their group and come through a last 16 tie with Dynamo Kiev with the anthem taking some hammer.

Asked if the fans should quit their hostility, Pellegrini replied: “It depends if you are superstitious. If you are superstitious we continue winning if they boo the anthem!”

City fans began booing the anthem, in response to what they saw as harsh treatment over financial fair play, and also the blithe way in which Uefa treated fans who had already booked trips to Moscow before they closed CSKA's stadium as a punishment for racism and violence.

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Pellegrini did make the point, with the game being a virtual sell-out, that the crowd could make the difference on the night.

“Maybe they have some booing at the beginning but after that they are always supporting our team so I don’t have any complaint about the fans,” he said.

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