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Man City guilty verdict' not good for football' as Lisa Nandy says fans must be protected from 'Wigan hell'
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British politician (born 1979)
Lisa Eva Nandy is a British politician who has served as Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport since 2024. A member of the Labour Party, she has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Wigan constituency since 2010.
More on Wikipedia ↗Association football club in England
Manchester City Football Club, commonly referred to as Man City or simply City, is a professional football club based in Manchester, England, that competes in the Premier League, the top flight of English football. Founded in 1880 as St. Mark's, they became Ardwick Association Football Club in 1887 and Manchester City in 1894. The club's home ground is the City of Manchester Stadium in east Manchester, to which they moved in 2003, having played at Maine Road since 1923. Manchester City adopted their sky blue home shirts in 1894, the first season with the current name.
More on Wikipedia ↗Town in Greater Manchester, England
Wigan is a town in Greater Manchester, England. The town lies midway between the cities of Manchester, 16 miles (25.7 km) to the south-east, and Liverpool, 17 miles (27 km) to the south-west. It is the largest settlement in the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan and is its administrative centre. The town has a population of 107,732 and the wider borough of 330,714. Wigan was part of the historic county of Lancashire.
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Manchester City’s chair, Khaldoon al-Mubarak, has attempted to dismiss the club’s guilty verdict as ‘noise’
The club have being found guilty on 114 charges for breaching Premier League financial rules. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy said it was in the interest of fans from all clubs that the dispute does not ‘drag on any longer’