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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Barney Ronay

Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?

Manchester City's Etihad Stadium is lit up before kick-off against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League
Manchester City’s Etihad Stadium is lit up before kick-off against Borussia Dortmund in the Champions League. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA

How would you feel if the owner of the football club you support was implicated, even as those implications are repeatedly denied, in famine, ethnic cleansing and the deaths of 1,500 men, women and children?

Compare this with the more familiar list of bad things football club owners do, the real sack‑the‑board stuff. Failure to buy a striker. Inadequate Showing Of Ambition. The hiring and/or firing of David Moyes. Mike Ashley was pretty annoying. He had shops full of quilted coats hung really high up close to the ceiling.

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