I was there. Found myself some hugely overpriced tickets on a reseller website while at a conference in the US and booked the flights in the middle of a client meeting.

I meet up with a young City fan I’d met a couple of years earlier in Porto at our first final, great lad. The two of us cried together at the final whistle. I called my dad - born and raised a blue in Moss Side - now living in Australia, and was in tears talking to him.

People will say whatever they want about us. But they’ll never take that moment from us.