Sitting directly opposite Manchester United’s ground, this new football-themed hotel fronted by ex-players Ryan Giggs and Gary Neville is cleverly targeted at fans. Look away now if you don’t find the game at all beautiful
For a moment, after I enter my room at Hotel Football and look out at the neon Old Trafford stadium sign metres from my window, I feel as if a certain brand of lager really does do football dream hotels.
I’m one of those much-derided London-based “Cockney Reds”, and often have to book a hotel in Manchester for evening games. So once I work out that my season-ticket seat is actually two minutes’ walk from the lobby, I’m in heaven … though I’ll soon discover that an actual Heaven is much closer to my eighth-floor room than I think.
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