Former Manchester Metropolis striker Imre Varadi mentioned it was “good to see” the membership’s followers waving inflatable bananas at Anfield on Sunday and feels it “introduced loads of enjoyable again”.
Varadi was nicknamed ‘Imre Banana’ by Metropolis followers throughout his two-year spell with the membership within the late Nineteen Eighties and so they started taking inflatable bananas to video games after they performed within the outdated Second Division.
The craze continued into the early 90s, with Metropolis followers taking bananas to video games intermittently since, and dozens re-emerged at Sunday’s sport.
Metropolis’s 3-0 win over Liverpool was the membership’s first sport since being discovered responsible of 114 prices associated to breaches of Premier League monetary guidelines between 2009-10 and 2017-18.
With the membership going through sanctions reminiscent of a factors deduction or expulsion from the Premier League, Metropolis followers took bananas to Anfield as a nod to their time as a yo-yo membership within the Nineteen Eighties.
Varadi, who now sells inflatable bananas through the membership and whose X account is @imre_banana,, exterior instructed BBC Radio 5 Stay Drive: “It was superb, [it’s] bringing loads of enjoyable again into the sport.
“The sport itself was a terrific sport clearly however simply to see the inflatable craze getting back from the 80s once I was taking part in on the outdated Maine Highway, it was a pleasure.”
Varadi joined Metropolis from West Brom in October 1986 and scored 26 targets in 65 appearances earlier than transferring to Sheffield Wednesday in September 1988.
“Anyone began to name me Imre Banana after which, the next sport, there have been 10, 20, 25 bananas after which it simply grew and grew and grew till each soccer membership had an inflatable,” he added.
“I began it however it was 40 years in the past and it is nonetheless going robust now, as all of us noticed at Anfield. I am actually happy with it.
“It is bringing loads of pleasure to the sport. It is nice to see.”