More than just football: How scandal-tainted City led Manchester's rebirth

More than just football: How scandal-tainted City led Manchester's rebirth

Manchester City "has not only just been a football club for the area. It's a bit of a saviour, to be honest," he told AFP. Before City -- now embroiled in the biggest financial scandal to hit football's cash-rich Premier League -- moved to the area it was "very deprived" with high rates of unemployment, he said. Since the club's takeover by deep-pocketed Abu Dhabi investors in 2008, long-neglected districts between the stadium and the city centr…

More than just football: How scandal-tainted City led Manchester’s rebirth

Manchester City’s financial charges have reignited debate over how the club helped drive regeneration in east Manchester. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Paul Merson's Man City rant is the anecdote to pundit fence sitters

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Man City FFP: Merson insists the Man City players 'haven't won the league' in scathing attack on owners

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Manchester City Scandal: Inside Andy Burnham’s Manchesterism - The Heartlands Tribune

THE THIEFDOM Manchester City’s guilty verdict opened a door. Behind it sits a public housing fund, a Gulf prince, and nine councils that underwrote the risk, raising questions about who benefited from publicly financed regeneration. Football is a game of two halves. One is played on the pitch. The beautiful game. The poetry of motion, […]