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09.07.2023 - 05:59 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
For most Manchester City supporters, Saturday, June 10 will be forever etched into their memories.
Pep Guardiola orchestrated the elusive Champions League victory which the club craved as Rodri sent thousands of City supporters in Turkey, and back home in Manchester, to ecstasy. Sadly, the experience for supporters who travelled to Istanbul was marred by factors outside of their control.
Patrick Godfrey, 57, from Oldham was one of the fans who made the long trip across Europe to witness the historic evening as carer for his friend and wheelchair user Barry Foy. Godfrey told MEN Sport the experience getting to and from the Ataturk Stadium is one he will never forget for all the wrong reasons.
He explained: "Barry is in his mid-70s and he has been in a wheelchair for the last couple of years after suffering a stroke. But for Barry, this hasn't stopped him from following City home and away, Europe as well.
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"Istanbul itself was great, people would move out of the way for you and help you onto lifts but the minute you put yourself in the hands of UEFA it ruined the entire experience for us. It began with the bus to the stadium which took almost two-and-a-half hours to make a 19km journey.
"When we finally arrived, we were greeted with a dirt track leading from where the bus dropped us off halfway up a hill. I tried pushing the wheelchair up the hill but I nearly tipped Barry out so the only way we could get to the adapted buses to take us to the stadium entrance was for me to drag the chair backwards across this rubble-like surface which had not even been rolled flat.
"The 'specially adapted' buses could only fit one wheelchair on depending
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