The Celta jersey that came into the hands of Axl Rose

Manuel Fernandez (Ponteareas, 1981) is Celta season ticket holder since he was born, literally, and a fan Guns N’ Roses since he was ten years old, he estimates. “When I found out that my favorite band of all time was coming to play at my team’s stadium of all time, it was shocking. My two passions came together, it was something unimaginable,” he recalls, looking back at the Balaídos concert. So he thought he had to do “something special” besides, of course, going to the event that took place a week ago.

His idea was that the group had a memory of their passage through the city that they could take with them. And immediately thought of Celtic shirt. “I bought one for myself with the name Guns N’Roses and one for their singer, Axl Rose, with his name, both with the number 10″, he explains. But being able to give it to him became a reality Odyssey.

First he was in hotel where the band stayed the day before the recital, albeit without much hope. “I went with my family and we kept watch, but I already knew it would be complicated, because it’s not a very approachable group,” says this fan, who had previously seen them in Lisbon, Madrid or Bilbao. No luck.

The next attempt was at the event itself: I was going to throw it at him. He arrived at 9 o’clock to secure the first row and achieved that goal. “I tried it, he saw the shirt and he liked it, but at the moment when he was going to launch it, those of security They supported me, they prevented me – he laments. So he went home “excited and shocked by an unforgettable concert”, but without having fulfilled the mission he had imposed on himself.

The next day, despite the “terrible fatigue from the lived emotion”, he did not give up and started burning the last cartridges. He made sure, when he saw the bodyguards, that they hadn’t left the hotel yet, and he repeated it. guard “a few hours”, but nothing. “They went undercover to the airport,” he explains.

The last bullet was “catch a taxi to Peinador” with a friend. 25-30 fans were waiting for the group. “I was walking towards the end of the police cordon in the boarding area. The last of the group was Axl Rose, who stopped to take pictures and sign autographs. He recognized the shirt after saw at the concert, allowed his photo to be taken with her and took her as a gift and in the end fulfilled Manuel’s goal with the applause of the audience. “He was a an exciting moment which I will remember fondly,” he concludes.