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Manchester City enthuses Porto’s bars, squares and streets before the most important match in the club’s history.
The Blues face Chelsea tonight in an English Champions League final at Dragao Stadium.
And this afternoon, the city’s enthusiasts enjoyed the sun and enjoyed the setting of portugal’s largest city at the time.
The images show huge flags placed on a stone wall above one of the ‘Boys in Blue of Division Two’, ‘Bury Blues’ and ‘Eccles Blues’ pubs.
Other enthusiasts have opted for a quieter atmosphere to see the city sliding over Segs with their City T-shirts.
At least 6000 blues arrived in Portugal, with a limited number due to the coronavirus pandemic.
The city’s owner, Sheikh Mansour, paid for flights and transfers for enthusiasts passing through the city for their tickets.
But some enthusiasts still paid a lot of pounds to be in tonight’s game and faced the nervous expectation of a negative result in the covid test.
Damian Cummings, who has been a subscriber for 39 years, has been in Porto with 3 Blues for a long time.
“The City did the right thing to get the tickets,” he said, after taking credit for offering himself with the City and flying the same day.
“The biggest challenge is solving a Covid PCR verification and a one-day check to enter Portugal and return. It is the same procedure if you leave a one-day accommodation as is the case of a week’s vacation.
Pictured: 6000 Man City fans in Porto for Champions League final
“It costs 150 euros to classify any of the evidence, so we are all grateful that the owner offers flights and loose transfers. “
Lee Boland paid 900 euros for two tickets and said, “It’s more than I thought I’d spend, but you only live once. “
He told the Manchester Evening News: “When I joined the virtual queue on the UEFA online page at 1pm, I had two laptops and my cell phone in line. My center was beating hard, my hands were sweaty, just incredulous about what I was doing.
“Then on the portal to decide the price tickets. There were two Category 3 price tickets but they were not available. I updated the page but there was only one price ticket available. I cooled off again and two Category 3”. price tickets gave the impression that they still could not be recovered.
“My center broke, but I cooled down again, and the Category 2 entries gave the impression of 450 euros each. I said ‘no way’, but my wife said ‘do it, this is the possibility of my life. ‘
Then, while I was going to buy them, he told me the occasion ran out. That was it. My luck is lost.
Then my wife shouted, ‘They gave me two tickets for 450 euros each!I said it too much in cash and before I knew it, she had bought the tickets.
“I jumped and screamed as I hugged my wife. She’s a woman. Thanks to that, I have tickets to the final Champions League to see Manchester City!I’m still sweating, I still feel bad. “
In total, around 16,500 enthusiasts will be at the stadium tonight following UEFA’s resolve to move the adjustment to Portugal from Turkey.
Travel restrictions in Turkey, where some cities are blocked, have made the Ataturk Olympic Stadium almost the venue for the final.
But Portugal is on the UK’s green list, enthusiasts can simply travel.
The fact that anyone came from the same country also made logistics much less difficult.
“Enthusiasts had to suffer more than twelve months without being there to see their groups live and achieving a Champions League is the pinnacle of club football,” said UEFA President Aleksander Ceferin.
“Depriving those enthusiasts of the possibility of watching the game on the user is not an option and I am extremely happy that this commitment has been found.