Alastair Campbell Summarises The Manchester City Game


By Alastair Campbell
November 8 2009

I've never seen so many sightseers in a car park in almost half a century following football. The players' section of the car park at the City of Manchester Stadium that is, where a yellow-jacketed steward was telling excited autogawpers which Ferrari, Porsche, Maserati or personally customised giant 4x4 belonged to which highly paid members of Mark Hughes's £100 million-plus squad.

I've never really been one for cars but there are a lot of men who are, including a few Burnley fans stopping to take pictures. I know Chris Eagles has a Lamborghini, but the fact it made the national press suggested Burnley top of the range car purchases are the exceptions not the rule. The only time I can remember photographers in the Turf Moor car park was to snap former goalkeeper Gabor Kiraly arriving in the Mini he drove all the way from Hungary.

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Alastair Campbell Summarises The Manchester City Game
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The Collector
08/11/2009 20:53
Did Kiraly really drive from Hungary in a mini? (Sm2)

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GrimsbyClaret
10/11/2009 12:30
Another interesting account by Alastair.

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aggi
10/11/2009 14:00
I love this comment
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Only saw the highlights on MOTD but I wonder if you were at the same game.

A sad indictment on football.

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