Premier Attraction

Top of the Premier League, Manchester City also lead their rivals when it comes to fan hospitality. And for the top fan experience, you have to head downstairs, to The Tunnel Club, writes LOUISE TAYLOR

- Louise Taylor

I’M nibbling on a Thai fishcake with a feisty cucumber pickle while, just a few feet away, the other side of one-way glass, Manchester City manager Pep Guardiola is giving a post-match interview after yet another victory for the Blues.

Earlier, we pressed our well-fed faces to that one-way glass as the City squad trooped down the steps to the tunnel at the start of the match against Watford. So quick up front when he’s on the pitch, Sergio Agüero loiters behind his team mates in the tunnel. Apparently, being last off the coach is his superstitious thing, an insider tells us.

One moment we are seeing Pep on TV screens giving a press conference about the 3-1 win, the next we see him, through the glass, in person, striding out of that same conference room. John Stones is behind our table, chatting to camera...and there’s Sergio again, strolling around shirtless, oblivious of us gawpers on the other side of that one-way glass, snapping selfies frantically as our heroes go by. It’s quite a pleasant view...