LONDON: Manchester City owner Sheikh Mansour is to pay the travel costs of the newly crowned English champions fans attending the Champions League final in Portugal later this month the club announced today.
Fans are permitted to stay in the country for just 24 hours – subject to furnishing a negative coronavirus test – due to Covid protocols. “The Covid inflated costs, combined with necessary but expensive PCR testing, would have rendered the trip to the final unmanageable for many of those supporters lucky enough to qualify for a ticket.
Sheikh Mansour said the gesture was a reward to those fans who had stuck with the club through thick and thin.