Any supporters who had hung around the Premier League club's stadium after their game in midweek would have been left wondering where the strong smell had come from.............
Manchester City keep the Etihad Stadium pitch in top condition by covering it in garlic.
The club’s ground staff get through tonnes of garlic in a bid to ward
off microscopic parasites that eat away at grass roots and damage the
playing surface.
The Etihad is regularly treated - most recently after Wednesday’s
Champions League clash with Borussia Monchengladbach - and the club’s
City Football Academy training ground is also coated.
A strong smell of garlic was noticeable around the grounds of the
Etihad two hours after full-time on Wednesday, when most fans and
employees had gone home.
But City staff at the CFA are regularly forced to put up with the pungent aroma during the working week.
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