For most Manchester City supporters, Saturday, June 10 will be forever etched into their memories.
Pep Guardiola orchestrated the elusive Champions League victory which the club craved as Rodri sent thousands of City supporters in Turkey, and back home in Manchester, to ecstasy. Sadly, the experience for supporters who travelled to Istanbul was marred by factors outside of their control.
Patrick Godfrey, 57, from Oldham was one of the fans who made the long trip across Europe to witness the historic evening as carer for his friend and wheelchair user Barry Foy. Godfrey told MEN Sport the experience getting to and from the Ataturk Stadium is one he will never forget for all the wrong reasons.
He explained: "Barry is in his mid-70s and he has been in a wheelchair for the last couple of years after suffering a stroke. But for Barry, this hasn't stopped him from following City home and away, Europe as well.
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"Istanbul itself was great, people would move out of the way for you and help you onto lifts but the minute you put yourself in the hands of UEFA it ruined the entire experience for us. It began with the bus to the stadium which took almost two-and-a-half hours to make a 19km journey.
"When we finally arrived, we were greeted with a dirt track leading from where the bus dropped us off halfway up a hill. I tried pushing the wheelchair up the hill but I nearly tipped Barry out so the only way we could get to the adapted buses to take us to the stadium entrance was for me to drag the chair backwards across this rubble-like surface which had not even been rolled flat.
"The 'specially adapted' buses could only fit one wheelchair on depending on its size and were clearly unsuitable for the amount of people they were needing to transport. Before we could enter the stadium, two small bottles of water we had purchased for taking medication were confiscated from me and we were told to buy them inside. Yet, as we headed to the turnstiles we passed touts who were selling water at extortionate prices as well as flares which were on UEFA's banned list."
Before heading for the turnstiles, Godfrey was told by the bus driver to return to the place they had been dropped off 'no matter what time the match finished' so they could be transported back to the coaches heading towards the city centre. However, after watching the Blues lift the trophy, the bus was nowhere to be seen.
"When we arrived back to the spot there was just one fella," he continued. "We managed to ask him for the disabled buses and he told us they had all gone and they would not be coming back because of the traffic.
"So, I had to push Barry up the hill, which had been deemed unsuitable for wheelchair users, and back to the car park. Well, when we got there it looked like a mass evacuation out of a warzone.
"There were no lights in the car park only the illumination from car and bus headlights. Eventually, I managed to locate a young steward who told me to keep going down the rubble hill to get to the coaches towards the city centre.
"We were risking our lives dodging through the traffic as I dragged the chair across the car park. People were falling out of their wheelchairs and others had wheels buckling in the rubble.
"Once we got to the bottom of the hill, a police officer told us to go all the way back up it because there were no buses here. We got to the bus just in time but we did not reach our apartment until 4:20am."
Fellow City fan and wheelchair user Stephen Lane, 64, from Royton endured a similar experience at the Ataturk Stadium. Having suffered a similarly tortuous journey to the ground, Lane was worried about getting back to SAW Airport for his flight back to the UK.
Fortunately for him, unlike Godfrey, Lane was able to get a shuttle bus back to the rubble-strewn car park but him and his niece Mel's battle was only just beginning. "We got back to the car park and joined the queues for buses to the airports but once we got to the front, all hell broke loose.
"It turned out no coaches were waiting and everybody made a dash across the car park in the pitch darkness. Mel had to drag me between buses as we searched for one to SAW.
"At 2:30am I found one but it was already moving. Luckily the driver's door was still open so I shouted to grab his attention - he heard me and stopped to let me on.
"It took nearly three hours then to get out of the coach park but thankfully we just about made our flight back on time. The organisation was non-existent and while UEFA bears the brunt of this blame, City does not escape it.
"Disabled supporters were not thought about when the plans were put in place and it doesn't seem like a proper recce was undertaken by City before the final to see what UEFA had done."
MEN Sport contacted City and they didn't offer a comment on the experience for disabled supporters in Istanbul. UEFA were also approached for a response but have yet to acknowledge our request.
Both Godfrey and Lane believe the next two Champions League finals should be better for disabled supporters but both men agreed they had doubts about travelling to Greece in August for the UEFA Super Cup final against Sevilla.
"There'll be no problems at Wembley and there'll be no problems in Munich [should City reach those finals]," Lane added. "However they can talk about the Super Cup being in Athens but it is not, it is 18 miles away so we have got the same issue. It is like saying a game is in Manchester but it is actually in Bolton."
Godfrey continued: "I have taken a look on Google Earth and it looks like it [Athens] has a Metro so that will be fine before the game but what about afterwards? I will not be listening to UEFA again if they say the shuttle buses are the best routes, it was just ridiculous. Absolutely ridiculous."
