Jeremy Clarkson claims he was punched in the head at Champions League final

The Grand Tour and Who Wants to be a Millionaire presenter made the claims in a column for the Sun newspaper.

In it, he wrote that he joined a 'fathers and sons' trip on a chartered private jet to Porto to see the Man City- Chelsea final last weekend.

Mr Clarkson, who lives on a farm near Chipping Norton, wrote that 'refreshment flowed' during the flight, followed by a 'long lunch in the Portuguese sunshine'.

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This, he said, meant he was 'quite cheerful when we arrived at the stadium'.

He wrote: "So cheerful, in fact, that I got separated from my party and found myself surrounded by some good-natured City fans who decided to express their good-naturedness by punching me in the side of the head.

"It took ten minutes to convince a policeman that it was just ­joshing that had gone a bit wrong and that no one needed to go to the station."

After a paramedic made sure he did not go to the hospital with a ten minute check, the former Top Gear presented said he 'wobbled into the stadium to do 97 minutes of excitable shouting'.

He added: "Then, after Chelsea had lifted the cup, we scuttled off to the minibus for a quick trip to the airport and our flight home."

But his troubles did not end there, as his party's plane had broken, and they had to stay overnight at a hotel.

Describing what happened next as a series of 'first world problems', Mr Clarkson and friends drank at the hotel bar, despite it having closed due to a 10.30pm curfew.

He wrote: "We discovered, however, that they could do room service so we pointed out that technically the bar was a “room” and, as a result, they could bring the drinks there."

The next day, Mr Clarkson and his crew had to renew their 72-hour Covid travel certificates by undergoing a series of tests so they could take the next commercial flight home.

Eventually, the group decided to charter another private jet instead.

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In his flippant style, the motoring journalist turned TV presenter gave his thoughts on the value of foreign travel as Covid restrictions continue.

He wrote: "Is it worth it? Well Portugal is a lovely country and Porto is a beautiful city, but the fact of the matter is that it was 21 degrees over there. And it was 24 degrees when we got back to Britain, ­having landed in Birmingham at two in the morning.

"Nothing wrong with Birmingham of course. Except that all our cars were 70 miles away, at the airport in Oxford.

"All things considered then, I would not recommend foreign travel at the moment.

"Because even with private jets and credit cards, we had all sorts of problems."

Life on the presenter's Cotswolds farm, called Diddly Squat, is due to be revealed in a new series, Clarkson's Farm.

This premiers on Amazon Prime on June 11.