Scousers say sorry for fans’ attack on City’s team coach

LIVERPOOL have apologised after the City team coach had windows shattered as it approached Anfield for last night’s Champions League clash.

Fans of the Merseyside club had planned a ‘coach greeting’ for the Blues to ‘scare them back to Mancland’, urging supporters to bring ‘pints and pyro’ and wait on the route to the ground.

Some fans brought flares and smoke bombs, but others hurled missiles at the coach as it slowly made its way down the roads near the ground. The driver’s door and front window was smashed and bodywork was damaged, and the coach company assessed the damage after the players disembarked.

The coach was deemed unfit to take the players home again after the game, and a replacement was sent from Manchester. Liverpool acted quickly to condemn the actions of some fans, apologising to Pep Guardiola and the City players and promising to try to root out those responsible.

Their statement read: “The club condemns in the strongest possible terms the scenes which preceded our Champions League quarter-final, which resulted in damage being inflicted on the Manchester City team bus during their arrival at Anfield. We apologise unreservedly to Pep Guardiola, his players, staff and officials caught up in the incident. The behaviour of a number of individuals was completely unacceptable and the club will cooperate fully with the authorities to identify those responsible.”

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