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⚽ Updates on the Saturday afternoon football action ⚽ Live scoreboard | Tables | Top scorers | Email Scott The sun is shining at the Etihad Stadium where stalls are eagerly selling inflated bananas at an inflated price. The plastic fruit offers a jovial element amid the crisis swirling around East Manchester. For the fans in attendance, football is the distraction they need, where they can air support for the team and offer their backing to a hierarchy that has brought them unimagined joy in recent times. There is, however, concern about the predicament they find themselves in, desperately wanting to believe what the executives have told them over the years – but the ruling was damning from the independent commission and at this point the club’s historic name is being dragged through the mud based on a win-at-all-costs model. City are top of the league with a 100% record but the focus will not solely be on results for a very long time until the entire process has concluded, and no one knows when that will be. Continue reading...