We spent the first day of the trip in Manchester. After getting to the hotel and dropping off our stuff, we hopped on the tram and headed out to the burbs to see Manchester United's Old Trafford Stadium. Juanmi is a huge soccer fan so this was at the top of his list of things to do. The tour was quite pricey...£15 (almost $24...man, the dollars blows) for adults and £13 ($21) for students.
Before the tour, there was a 3-story museum which houses tons of old jerseys, cleats, trophies, and other memorabilia. Also, there are tons of different exhibits about players and coaches, both past and present. It's pretty incredible to see the dedication people have to their teams in England and in Europe in general. The amount of stuff in that museum was super extensive...a Manchester United fan could spend hours in there reading all of the old newspaper clippings and plaques on the wall.
On the tour of the stadium that seats 75,000+, we got to see the field, go into the home locker room, sit on the bench--which, by the way, was not so much a bench as there were individual car seats donated by Audi or Citroen or one of those companies--and walk out of the player tunnel to a recording of music and a cheering crowd. It was really cool as I had never before done an official stadium tour of any kind. After the tour was finished, they drop you off in the Man U Official Store. From the typical to the absolutely absurd, you can find pretty much anything under the sun with the Man U logo on it. Jerseys for newborns, toothbrushes, gummy Man U players, Man U Monopoly, and many more things you'd never have thought of. Unlike the majority, we made our way out of the shop without spending a dime on souvenirs...figured the £28 we had spent on the tour and museum was enough of a donation!
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