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Letters: itâs unfair to single out Manchester City fans
Yes, the club is owned by the morally dubious regime of Abu Dhabi, but look at all the other organisations that depend on Gulf cash
A City fan celebrates his team winning the Premier League. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
A City fan celebrates his team winning the Premier League. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian
Sun 23 May 2021 01.00 EDT
As a lifelong Manchester City supporter and season ticket holder (even in the days when we were penniless in the third tier), I read with interest Nick Cohenâs article on the use of our club as a vehicle for Abu Dhabi soft power and the moral issues it throws up (âMan City play beautiful football but it masks the ugliness of their ownersâ, Comment). The assumption is that Manchester City fans have become like âgangstersâ mollsâ and willing accomplices, ignoring the human rights abuses in their thirst for glory.
AMONG the many people to have disparaged Bournemouth over the years is James Bond. In Ian Fleming’s 1954 novel Live and Let Die, the character of Solitaire is heaping contempt on St Petersburg in Florida as a place full of “oldsters” who go to bed at 9pm. “It sounds rather like Bournemouth or Torquay. But a million times worse,” says Bond. That image of Bournemouth as a retirement destination has persisted. The 1990s sitcom Waiting For God was set in a Bournemouth retirement home and much of One Foot in the Grave was made locally. And one phrase recurs when the national media write about the resort: “Blue rinse”.