Oasis at Heaton Park: Pep Guardiola watches as Liam Gallagher calls Manchester City boss ‘the greatest’

Liam Gallagher swearily defender Pep Guardiola after boos were heard when the Oasis frontman called the Manchester City boss “the greatest manager of all time” while dedicating a song to him at the band’s Manchester comeback gig.

Guardiola posed backstage with the children of Liam Gallagher and songwriter Noel Gallagher at the Heaton Park homecoming on Friday, where the singer introduced 1997 single D’You Know What I Mean? as a tribute to the Champions League and six-time Premier League winner with City, the club the Gallaghers support.

“I want to dedicate this next tune to the greatest manager of all time,” said Gallagher. “The one and only Pep Guardiola. Who’s ******* booing? Who are you ******** booing?”

Pep Guardiola: Oasis family photo at Heaton Park

City’s coach, whose derision may have come from Manchester United fans in the crowd of around 80,000, wore a retro City t-shirt and shorts for a backstage photo with Noel Gallagher’s daughter, Anais, and sons Donovan and Sonny alongside Liam’s sons, Gene and Lennon.

“Pic of the century, alright?” said Gene, sharing the photo on Instagram, where he has more than 274,000 followers. “Now everyone else **** off.”

Footage also showed the Spaniard and daughter Maria enthusiastically singing along to 1996 number one Don’t Look Back in Anger.

Pep Guardiola at Oasis singing along to ‘Don’t Look Back In Anger’ with his daughter. 🥹🩵 pic.twitter.com/7p1CJhnkzL

— City Report (@cityreport_) July 11, 2025

Pep Guardiola and Noel Gallagher

Guardiola called Oasis’s reunion for the first time since 2009 “fantastic” and “really good” when it was announced last year.

The Spaniard chatted with Noel Gallagher in his first public intervew at City after joining the club from Bayern Munich in 2016.

A sheepish-looking Guardiola confessed to Gallagher at the time that he liked Coldplay and James Blunt. “It’s not that I don’t like him, el senor,” Gallagher replied, speaking about Blunt. “It’s that I hate him.”

City appointed Guardiola shortly before Coldplay headlined the club’s Etihad Stadium. “I’ve got a friend who’s a ticket tout and can get you two [tickets] for £75,” joked Gallagher in the interview before explaining that Blue Moon is City’s anthem.

Oasis: Manchester City shirt ‘honour’

City released a fourth shirt last September co-designed by Gallagher and inspired by Oasis’s 1994 debut album, Definitely Maybe.

“It’s a proper honour,” Gallagher told City Studios at the time, also assessing the impact of majority owner Sheikh Mansour.

“When the guys from Puma approached us at one of the games, I took about five seconds to agree to it. I’ve been supporting City for 50 years and the last decade this has been stuff that dreams are made of.

“One of the great days of my life was when we were away at Brighton on the last day of the [2018/19] season. We had to win that game.

“We were in the dressing room afterwards with the players and Kevin De Bruyne is handing me a beer. How did it get any better than this?”

Oasis tour dates 2025

Oasis’s tour started at Cardiff’s Principality Stadium on July 4, with their visit to Heaton Park the first of five July dates in their home city.

Their previous tours have included dates at City’s former home of Maine Road in 1996 and the Etihad Stadium in 2005.

Principality Stadium, Cardiff

July 4, 5

Heaton Park, Manchester

July 11, 12, 16, 19, 20

Wembley Stadium, London

July 25, 26, 30; August 2, 3

Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh

August 8, 9, 12

Croke Park, Dublin

August 16, 17

Rogers Stadium, Toronto

August 24, 25

Soldier Field, Toronto

August 28

MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford

August 31, September 1

Rose Bowl, California

September 6, 7

Estadio GNP Seguros, Mexico City

September 12, 13

Wembley Stadium, London

September 27, 28

Goyang Stadium, Goyang

October 21

Tokyo Dome, Tokyo

October 25, 26

Marvel Stadium, Melbourne

October 31; November 1, 4

Accor Stadium, Sydney

November 7, 8

Estadio Mas Monumental, Buenos Aires

November 15, 16

Estadio Nacional Julio Martinez Pradanos, Santiago

November 19

MorumBIS, Sao Paulo

November 22, 23

When does Man City’s 2025/26 Premier League season start and end?

Having mounted a meek title defence in 2024/25, City return to action away to Wolves on the opening matchweek of the 2025/26 season.

The game at Molineux is at 17:30 on Saturday, August 16 and is live on Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League and Ultra in the UK.

The last round of matches will all start at the same time on May 24 2026. No rounds will take place within 60 hours of each other and there will be no fixture on December 24.

Adblock test (Why?)