MANCHESTER, ENGLAND (AP) – Rain poured as Manchester City’s players celebrated winning the treble of major trophies with an open-top bus parade through the city centre in front of tens of thousands of fans on Monday.
The start of the evening parade was delayed because of what City called “adverse weather conditions and lightning storms” but two blue buses – with the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League trophies aboard – eventually wound their way through the city streets, with the players and manager Pep Guardiola wearing T-shirts bearing the words ‘Treble Winners’.
“It had to be the best parade with this rain, otherwise this is not Manchester,” Guardiola said after the squad reached a stage on St Peter’s Square in the middle of Manchester, led by Erling Haaland and Ruben Dias with three medals around his neck.
“We don’t want sunshine, we want rain, so it was perfect.”
It has been one long party since City returned from Istanbul on Sunday and the celebrations were far from over.
“For the past 24 hours I’ve had the best day and night,” City winger Jack Grealish said. “To be fair, I don’t think I’ve had any sleep.”