{"id":329554,"date":"2026-05-05T13:55:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=329554"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:25:53","slug":"man-city-fan-caught-with-arsenal-bottle-in-his-pocket-during-everton-draw-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/05\/man-city-fan-caught-with-arsenal-bottle-in-his-pocket-during-everton-draw-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Man City fan caught with Arsenal bottle in his pocket during Everton draw | Football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t\t<\/div><figcaption>Tal Rehman went viral along with his Arsenal bottle but had his head in his hands after Man City\u2019s draw with Everton (Sky Sports\/Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Manchester City supporter who famously mocked Arsenal at Stamford Bridge was seen with the bottle firmly tucked inside his pocket in the course of the 3-3 draw with Everton on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>Tal Rehman went viral last month after he drank from an Arsenal-branded bottle during City\u2019s 3-0 win against Chelsea at Stamford Bridge \u2013 a result that got here after the Gunners\u2019 2-1 defeat at home to Bournemouth.<\/p>\n<p>The bottle was out again the next weekend when City sealed a 2-1 win against Arsenal on the Etihad Stadium, which put Pep Guardiola\u2019s side three points behind their title rivals with a game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal pulled six points clear with wins over Newcastle United and Fulham, meaning the pressure was on City to get a win away to Everton on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>But Guardiola\u2019s men could only salvage a 3-3 draw with Jeremy Doku\u2019s goal within the seventh minute of injury time, meaning that they now five points behind Arsenal with just one game in hand.<\/p>\n<p>Rehman was spotted by photographers within the away section on the Hill Dickinson Stadium in the course of the closing stages of the sport and eagle-eyed Arsenal fans noticed the infamous bottle zipped up inside his jacket pocket.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the bottle incident initially went viral, Guardiola had urged City supporters to \u2018respect\u2019 Arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Beating Arsenal once is so difficult, imagine beating them twice in a couple of weeks. So we&#8217;ve to rest, prepare and browse exactly what we&#8217;ve to do,\u2019 Guardiola said before City\u2019s 2-1 win at home to Mikel Arteta\u2019s side.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"430\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/SEI_295814386-1504.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28239547\" alt=\"LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND - MAY 04: A Manchester City fan looks dejected during the Premier League match between Everton and Manchester City at Hill Dickinson Stadium on May 04, 2026 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Michael Regan\/Getty Images)\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\">\t<\/div><figcaption>Manchester City are actually five points behind Arsenal with only one game in hand (Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u2018But I would love to say to my fans \u2013 respect Arsenal quite a bit. They\u2019re a rare team. They&#8217;re. It\u2019s not naive, it\u2019s to not make them feel something that they usually are not.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018But at the identical time: come join us and support us minute one. The players will do the utmost.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>City can now close the gap at the highest of the Premier League to 2 points with at home to Brentford on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the newest news on <meta charset=\"utf-8\"><br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sportmetro\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/metrosportuk\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Wayne Rooney makes Arsenal prediction after Man City draw with Everton<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: Petr Cech tells young Man Utd star to contemplate Premier League transfer<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"metro-more-link\"><svg><title>Arrow<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#common-right-arrow\" href=\"#common-right-arrow\"><\/use><\/svg><span class=\"mor-link\" data-track-module=\"mor-link_article\">MORE: David Moyes makes \u2018best within the league\u2019 claim after Man City hand Arsenal title advantage<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\"><a class=\"metro-button share-bar-comments\" data-vars-position=\"bottom\" href=\"#metro-comments-container\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Comment now<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-comment\" href=\"#social-comment\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span><svg><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title>\n<use xlink:href=\"#social-preferred-source\" href=\"#social-preferred-source\"><\/use><\/svg><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tal Rehman went viral along with his Arsenal bottle but had his head in his hands after Man City\u2019s draw with Everton (Sky Sports\/Getty) The Manchester City supporter who famously mocked Arsenal at Stamford Bridge was seen with the bottle firmly tucked inside his pocket in the course of the 3-3 draw with Everton on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20686],"tags":[2605,16758,15112,1055,2873,7156,2008,5479,1054,8579],"class_list":["post-329554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-arsenal","tag-bottle","tag-caught","tag-city","tag-draw","tag-everton","tag-fan","tag-football","tag-man","tag-pocket"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329554"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329557,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329554\/revisions\/329557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}