Football fanatics spend £50,000 on customising club-themed car

A pair of British men have spent £50,000 (€56,249) customising their car into a theme of their favourite football club.

Lifelong fans of Manchester City football club Mike Radcliffe and Shaun Donohoe have forked out the sum on their Chevrolet in honour of their heroes - and most people who worked on the car supported city's rivals Manchester United, whose nickname is the Red Devils.

Mike told the Manchester Evening News newspaper: "We had to tell Tom Jones, a United fan from Oldham who has done art work on cars for us before: ‘Don't you dare put a Red Devil on it’.

"All their lads were United supporters and another lad from Stockport, who did the upholstery, is also a United fan."

The car features the face of City's billionaire owner Sheikh Mansour on the spare wheel case and pictures of some of the club's current stars such as Nigel De Jong and David Silva also appear on the 1975 vehicle.