{"id":421754,"date":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421754\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T23:45:07","slug":"manchester-city-players-refunding-tickets-to-fans-who-witnessed-glimt-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/421754\/","title":{"rendered":"Manchester City Players Refunding Tickets To Fans Who Witnessed Glimt Loss"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saving face is costly sometimes.<\/p>\n

PublishedJanuary 21, 2026 2:17 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 21, 2026 2:27 PM EST<\/p>\n

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Manchester City has endured the worst four-day stretch in its recent history, but some of the club’s biggest stars are trying to save some face by getting on the good side of its supporters.<\/p>\n

City had its 13-game unbeaten streak ended on Saturday courtesy of Manchester United in an ugly 2-0 defeat. Next on the slate was a Champions League league phase match on Tuesday against a club out of Norway called Bod\u00f8\/Glimt. Stating the obvious, it was a get-right spot for City, but instead they went on the road and lost by a count of 3-1.<\/p>\n

Roughly 400 City fans made the trek to the small town of Bod\u00f8 and suffered through brutally cold temperatures to witness their team lose to a Norwegian club whose stadium has a capacity of 8,270. Those fans are having the money they spent on tickets refunded by a group of players on the team.<\/p>\n

“Our supporters mean everything to us. We know the sacrifice our fans make when they travel across the world to support us and we’ll never take it for granted,” a statement<\/a> shared by City’s leadership group stated. “They’re the best fans in the world. “We also recognise it was a lot of traveling for fans who supported us in the freezing cold throughout a difficult evening for us on the pitch. Covering the cost of tickets for the fans who traveled to Bodo is the least we can do.”<\/p>\n

The bill for the nearly 400 tickets amounts to nearly $13,400, which is a sum that not a single player on City’s team would even notice leaving their bank account, but it’s still quite the gesture.<\/p>\n

Rodri was among the players who signed off on the statement to fans regarding the refund, and supporters certainly won’t be mad about that after he was sent off with a red card in the 62nd minute against Bod\u00f8\/Glimt, two minutes after City scored its first goal of the match.<\/p>\n

Manchester City is still in good shape to finish inside the Top 8 in the league phase to punch a ticket straight to the Round of 16. Bod\u00f8\/Glimt, even with its stunning win over City, sit 27th out of 36 teams in the Champions League standings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Saving face is costly sometimes. PublishedJanuary 21, 2026 2:17 PM EST\u2022UpdatedJanuary 21, 2026 2:27 PM EST FacebookTwitterEmailCopy Link…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-421754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}