An unfiltered Jack Grealish has jokingly thanked Bernardo Silva for being “miles off it” so that match hero Ilkay Gundogan could be substituted on during Manchester City’s dramatic 3-2 final day win over Aston Villa.
The comments came while City were celebrating their Premier League title win during their open-top bus parade through Manchester. Grealish failed to make it onto the pitch on Sunday but watched Gundogan score twice, including the winner, to see his club come back from two goals down to win and clinch the crown.
Thousands of fans lined the streets on Monday to greet and cheer on their heroes with TV cameras allowed on the board to interview players. One of the players to grab the microphone was Grealish, who delivered his lines in an unfamiliarly croaky voice.
