Fans have gathered in their thousands in Manchester for one of the most anticipated reunion gigs ever as Oasis take to the stage at Heaton Park in their home town

Spanish football manager Pep Guardiola has proved he’s a huge Oasis fan as he’s been spotted backstage at Liam and Noel Gallagher’s comeback gig at Heaton Park in Manchester. Pep, 54, was pictured with the singing duo’s kids, Noel’s children Donovan, Sonny and Anais and Liam’s sons Gene and Lennon.

The footballing legend wore a retro Man City shirt with a pair of denim shorts, as he was seen sporting a backstage pass around his neck and a drink in hand. Gene took to Instagram to proudly share the picture as the 24-year-old captioned it: “Pic of the century alright now everyone else can f*** off.”

Noel, 56, grew a close connection to the manager when he arrived in Manchester nine years ago and have shared a close bond ever since. The singer has supported Man City since he was a child and regularly attends games at the Etihad stadium.

Noel and Liam Gallagher performed at Heaton Park in Manchester today(Image: X/@Whateverpodcas2)

This is the first time that Noel and Liam, 52, are performing in their native Manchester since 2009.

The Britpop legends reunited for their first show in 16 years last week in Cardiff and have a further three sold-out dates in London, Edinburgh and Dublin.

The pair announced their comeback last year and at the time of the announcement, they shared a video to promote the comeback when Liam was heard saying: “When we both come together, you have greatness.”

Noel also expressed: “I know my brother better than anybody else. This is it, this is happening.”

Pep Guardiola posed backstage at Oasis’ gig in Manchester with the Gallagher kids(Image: Instagram/genegallagher)

The brothers notoriously shared huge bust ups throughout their time together in the band from 1991 to 2009 and even continued to bad-mouth one another after Noel quit.

The first notable cracks in the relationship between the two occurred on their first American tour in 1994, where Liam regularly changed the lyrics of Noel’s songs to annoy both his brother and the American listeners.

This led to a physical fight between the boys and a chair being thrown, causing Noel to abruptly quit the tour.

Many spats happened over the next few years, but the final straw came in 2009 when Noel publicly quit the band.

The pair performed together in Cardiff last week(Image: AFP via Getty Images)

Noel and Liam went on to have hugely successful solo careers and spent years keeping their families apart from one another.

However, in 2017, things appeared to soften as Liam told BBC Radio 1: “I’ll speak to him some day. It’s all very sad, but we’ll get over it… I guess it musn’t be nice for my mum.”

“It would be lovely for my mum. I’m not arsed about the band. It would be lovely for two brothers to be talking and for my mum.

“The families have not seen each other and my kids haven’t seen his kids, I haven’t seen his kids, all that would be great. And then maybe we could get the band back together or maybe not but that would be nice.”