‘It doesn’t seem like COVID’s here at all’: British fans arrive in Porto for Champions League final |

In Porto’s Ribeira Square, the unmistakable sight and sound of English football fans abroad has returned.

Singing, swilling inexpensive local beer and standing on chairs, they have commandeered a pretty corner of this coastal city.

There are 12,000 ticket holders from Chelsea and Manchester City arriving over the weekend and many more have travelled in the hope of getting one, representing the biggest mass departure from the UK since before the pandemic.