Manchester City's players celebrate on stage with their trophies following an open-top bus victory parade for their European Cup, FA Cup and Premier League victories, in Manchester, northern England on June 12, 2023. (Photo by Oli Scarff / AFP)
MANCHESTER, England: Manchester City's players celebrated winning the treble of major trophies with an open-top bus parade through the city center in front of tens of thousands of fans on Monday.
The start of the evening parade was delayed because of what City called "adverse weather conditions and lightning storms” but two blue buses - complete with the Premier League, FA Cup and Champions League trophies aboard - eventually wound their way through the city streets, with the players and cigar-smoking manager Pep Guardiola wearing T-shirts bearing the words "Treble Winners.”
"It had to be the best parade with this rain, otherwise this is not Manchester," Guardiola said after the squad reached a stage in the middle of Manchester, led by a shirtless Erling Haaland and Ruben Dias with medals around his neck.
City beat Inter Milan 1-0 in the Champions League final in Istanbul on Saturday to complete the treble and emulate the achievement of Manchester United's class of 1998-99.
It was a first Champions League title for City, along with a fifth Premier League title in six years and a second FA Cup in Guardiola's seven-year reign.
