I made the journey from London to Manchester by train and had a top break in this top city
There’s a joke at Manchester City that only two things in its Etihad Stadium are red – fire exits and ketchup. As we take a tour around the football ground, our guide, Andy, embellishes the tale with a mischievous grin.
Each player is provided with two brand new shirts per match and only their shin pads can be personalised. Andy also revealed how superstitious Kyle Walker always wears the shin pads his mum bought him as a 14-year-old schoolboy, handed over with the stern instruction to look after them. Twenty years later he clearly has.
And as outdoor and indoor scenes may be recorded weeks apart, meticulous details have to be noted – so if it’s raining when Ken Barlow enters his house one day, he’s sprayed with water bottles when he’s filmed inside later on.
Exposed brickwork in our large family room gave it an industrial-chic feel, while the 20% Manchester Pass discount in the waterside bar and restaurant was an added perk. Ziggy the zebra shark – at 10ft-long their biggest sea creature – Barbara the humungous giant southern stingray, Derek and Bruce the Queensland groupers, and seven blacktip reef sharks all swam past, nonchalantly ignoring us.
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