CITY FIREWORK PLOT RUMBLED
An attempt to set off fireworks outside Manchester City’s hotel in the early hours before their Champions League semi-final with Paris Saint-Germain last week was foiled.
As this newspaper revealed, Pep Guardiola’s men were targeted by a group of German youths who managed to explode dozens of industrial- strength pyrotechnics ahead of their quarter-final clash at Borussia Dortmund on two occasions.
Two men attempted to repeat the trick in the French capital but were intercepted by police close to the hotel in the city centre which, like the rest of the country, is currently under nightly curfew.