Sometimes you only want to hear one commentator on a certain subject, and which of us can truly rest till we have heard Roy Keane on Manchester City’s Tunnel Club? It makes the prawn sandwich brigade look like a bunch of scavengers going through bins in search of leftover crusts of E-coli pie.
If you missed Sky’s pant-wetting coverage of this on Monday night, City have unveiled a huge advance in the economic stratification of football fans. The Tunnel Club is a new facility at the Etihad which offers unprecedented access to the club’s innards. For up to a highly competitive £15,000 per season, fans can watch headphoned players ignore them on their way into the dressing room, then gain entry to a restaurant bar area constructed around the tunnel. Here, they are served a five-course fine-dining meal – or “experience”, in the modern parlance – before receiving a tactical briefing from an actual member of Pep Guardiola’s coaching staff (two of them were reported to have been deputised before the City-Everton game on Monday night).
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