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

<p>Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests</p><p>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 <a href="https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10/29/horrific-violations-arab-nations-slam-rsf-killings-in-sudans-el-fasher">the deaths of 1,500 men, women and children?</a></p><p>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.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/nov/08/silence-over-sudan-manchester-city-owners-football">Continue reading...</a>