Noel Gallagher ended up needing stitches for a burst nose after clashing with Ruben Dias' dad last season - and Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola was left asking "what's happened to your f*****g face?"
Speaking to the Pub Talk podcast, presented by Alan Brazil and former Arsenal star Ray Parlour, Gallagher explained how Dias’ father ran into him during celebrations after Ilkay Gundogan’s goal secured their title crown - but instead of attempting to lift the rock star up in the air like a trophy he accidentally collided with his face.
Gallagher ended up missing the final nine minutes of the game as he received medical treatment and ended up bumping into Pep Guardiola soon after with the City head coach bemused by former Oasis guitarist’s face being covered in blood.
"Ruben Dias' old fella is in a box next door to us,” Gallagher said. “He's a big bear of a man, he's massive. When he's at the games, he likes a drink and he's over the balcony shouting. He's a good lad.
“So as Gundogan scores the winner I picked up my lad like the World Cup and we're like 'yesss' and when I put him down Ruben Dias' dad is coming running down the concourse to pick me up and as I turn around he runs straight into me. I had to get stitches into my nose and everything and for the last nine minutes I was getting treated in the room by St John's Ambulance while the clock was running down.
"My face was covered in blood and you know that bit when the final whistle goes and Pep starts crying, he runs up the tunnel. He was running up to his box to see his family as I'm coming down with the St John's Ambulance guy. We met in the corridor and he was in tears. We hugged and he goes, 'what's happened to your f*****g face?' My lad thinks I'm crazy."
Gallagher also said that he is convinced Erling Haaland is the final piece of the jigsaw at City and the Norway striker will bring the Champions League to the club for the first time.
"The people who run that club are amazing because the two most important signings were Guardiola and getting this lad. [The Champions League] he's gonna win it for us. I'm not an expert, I see it as a fan, but watching him in the flesh he is never stood still with his arms in the air."
During the podcast the 55-year-old also discusses his own career and what forced him to quit using cocaine during the 1998 World Cup.
“I remember it vividly, the day I quit cocaine. It was during the World Cup, France 98. France were playing Germany, it was half time. We’d had a huge party the night before and I’d stumbled out of bed in the afternoon and the first thing I did was go to the fridge for a can of Red Stripe, I lit a cig and my whole world fell in. I had a freak out, breathing and everything. And from that day forward I quit.
“I still love a drink, a bottle of rose in the summer, I love a beer. A pint of Guinness once in a while. But I never had a problem with any of it, I’ve been able to control all of it. The mental side of it luckily hasn’t bothered me.”
