A person has been charged after an alleged assault of Manchester City midfielder Jack Grealish at Outdated Trafford on Sunday.
The incident occurred on the finish of Metropolis’s Premier League conflict with Manchester United, which led to a 0-0 draw.
It’s alleged that Grealish was slapped within the face by a person near the Outdated Trafford tunnel as the 2 units of gamers walked off the pitch after full-time.
Metropolis have declined to remark. United sources informed ESPN that the membership are cooperating with the investigation.
Larger Manchester Police (GMP) have confirmed to ESPN that 20-year-old Alfie Holt of Haven Drive, Droylsden has been charged with assault. He’ll seem at Manchester Magistrates Courtroom on 14 July.
A GMP assertion learn: “This cost pertains to an incident which passed off at Outdated Trafford Soccer Membership on Sunday, April 6, 2025.”
Following the derby, Metropolis supervisor Pep Guardiola accused United followers of a “lack of class” after derogatory chants have been directed at Phil Foden‘s mom.
Metropolis sources mentioned that they had been shocked by the variety of followers concerned within the chants whereas sources near United mentioned they condemn “abusive chants towards all gamers.”
“Lack of sophistication; but it surely’s not United, it is the folks,” Guardiola mentioned when concerning the chants.
“We’re so uncovered, people who find themselves on the display in world soccer — managers, house owners, and soccer gamers particularly.
“It’s truthfully, I do not perceive within the thoughts of the folks involving the mum of Phil, being concerned in that.
“It is a lack of integrity, class, and they need to be ashamed, however it’s what it’s; it is occurring in every single place, I might say, not simply within the UK.”
