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Topics: Jack Grealish, Manchester City, Champions League, Premier League
Alex Brotherton
Topics: Jack Grealish, Manchester City, Champions League, Premier League
Manchester City's players celebrated their Premier League title win so hard that they racked up an eye-watering drinks bill - although Jack Grealish was not entirely to blame.
City's win in the Champions League final last weekend completed a historic treble, having already won the Premier League title and the FA Cup.
As you might expect after such a gruelling season ended in the best way imaginable, Pep Guardiola's players celebrated. Hard.
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By now, everyone has seen the videos of City's stars partying non-stop for three days after they lifted the Champions League trophy in Istanbul.
Jack Grealish and Erling Haaland led the celebrations, which began in the early hours of Sunday morning in Turkey, continued in Ibiza on Monday morning and wrapped up in Manchester during and after an open-top bus parade on Monday.
Given the amount of booze consumed and lack of sleep, it's something of a minor miracle that the likes of Grealish, Haaland and Kyle Walker were able to report for international duty on Wednesday.
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However, the celebrations haven't been confined to the past few days.
City secured their third consecutive Premier League title almost a month ago now, when Arsenal fell to a 1-0 defeat at Nottingham Forest.
The following day City played their final home league game of the season at a bouncing Etihad Stadium, with fans and players alike in party mode.
City won 1-0 thanks to a Julian Alvarez strike and, after the game, Pep Guardiola allowed his players to let their hair down.
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The Spaniard afforded his players two days off but before leaving the stadium the players made their way to the bar.
According to the father of Jack Grealish, the players and their families racked up an almighty bar tab in the stadium's Tunnel Club after the Chelsea game.
"There was one [party] for winning the Premier League title at the Tunnel Club," Grealish's dad Kevin told the Mirror.
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"The drinks bill came to £47,000, FORTY-SEVEN GRAND! – I saw the receipt – and before you say it, that wasn't just Jack's bill. He actually went home early!"
Grealish, going home early?
It seems unlikely given his recent antics but perhaps the England star was just saving himself for what he knew would be the mother of all parties if City won the treble.
They did, and he certainly - and deservedly so - made the most of it.