2026-10-01
30 分钟This is The Guardian.
Today, the not-so-beautiful game.
How the Manchester City scandal could change football.
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I have been a Man City fan for 54 years and my relationship with the club is ambivalent but incredibly close.
This is Simon Haddston, a features writer for The Guardian.
He was very young and recovering from a childhood illness
that had nearly killed him when he started going to matches in his hometown.
So I started going with my dad, who'd never been to a football match in his life and hated footy.
But that was like the sacrifice he made for me because I'd got better and he thought I'd probably die.
For a long time, it was a relationship built on occasional highs.
It was 1976. We won the League Cup.