Liverpool fans should kill Manchester City with kindness when the two sides meet on Sunday – it could be more effective than booing.That’s the advice of talkSPORT’s Alex Crook, who has given the Reds a unique way to target their visitors in their huge Anfield showdown following City’s seismic guilty verdict from the Premier League.Manchester City’s players will now compete this season with a huge question mark over their headsGettyAn international break like no other unfolded as City were found guilty of all serious Premier League financial breaches.An independent commission adjudged them to have inflated their revenue by more than £900million by disguising owner funding as sponsorship over a nine-year period between 2009 and 2018.During this period, City won eight trophies including three top-flight titles.The Citizens insist they are innocent and have submitted an appeal against the verdict.While they await the outcome of this, they now return to Premier League under a huge microscope as the legitimacy of all their achievements in recent history has been called into question.And they could hardly have asked for a tougher first game back, with a trip to rivals Liverpool likely to reach boiling point on Sunday.For many years, the Reds under Jurgen Klopp were the closest challengers to City and could have claimed a lot more titles if the guilty verdict is to stand, with this set to make an already hostile atmosphere even more volatile at the weekend.Reverse psychology could stun Man CityAhead of what promises to be a spicy affair at Anfield, talkSPORT’s Crook has suggested an alternative way for Liverpool‘s fans to rile the Man City players.Speaking on Fiery Fridays as part of talkSPORT’s Daily podcast, he began: “The focus this weekend is going to be on the reception those Man City players get. “There’s a history of the Man City team coach being targeted on recent visits to Anfield when these two have met.”Anfield promises to be an absolute cauldron when Man City’s players walk out on Sunday afternoonGettyCity’s players have been receiving hostile greetings on Merseyside for years as they battled it out with Liverpool for titlesGettyHe continued: “I’m sure Liverpool fans have got plenty of imaginative and witty banners ready to greet those Man City players – ‘cheats’.“As they sit here now, until the unlikely eventuality that they prove themselves innocent, there’s going to be lots of chants aimed in their direction as well.”Sharing his suggestion, Crook claimed the best way for the Anfield crowd to rattle City is, rather than jeering them, to sarcastically applaud.A huge Manchester United fan, he pointed to similar tactics being used by the Old Trafford faithful in a 2009 meeting between the Red Devils and Chelsea.Crook said: “The Liverpool fans should go the other way, I wonder if they should be applauding these Man City players rather than booing them“Hear me out, I’ll go back to 2008, Man United won the Champions League in Moscow [against Chelsea] – John Terry famously fell over and missed the decisive penalty in the shootout.John Terry missed the chance to win Chelsea their first-ever European Cup in 2008Getty“I was at the game as a fan a few months later – January 2009 – the first time the two had met at Old Trafford since that final in Moscow.“Rather than jeering John Terry as you may normally expect, every time he touched the ball he got a standing ovation from the United fans and he could not handle it – he had an absolute stinker, United won 3-0. He couldn’t get his head around it.”Crook insisted that City’s players will only be given more motivation by a hostile reception, while applause could totally throw them off.He explained: “Football is littered with people who use those boos as motivation to silence their critics.“I know Enzo Maresca is going to be speaking to those Man City players before the weekend, underlining the fact that the club is still confident of proving their innocence.“And I’m sure he’s going to do what the club has done so far – try and create this siege mentality – ‘It’s us against the world, we’re going to get dogs abuse from these Liverpool fans, let’s ram those taunts back down their throats’.Could Liverpool stop the Premier League’s top scorer in Erling Haaland by applauding him rather than jeering?Getty“So again, just say Anfield stands and applauds Man City for all their previous achievements when they come onto the pitch, I think their heads will absolutely fall off and you can see a really comfortable Liverpool victory.”But with City the only side with a 100 per cent record in the Premier League this term, Crook warned taunting their players could end badly for Liverpool.He concluded “If they boo them, you’re going to get a wounded animal and that may just work against Liverpool this weekend.”