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What a load of crap, Umir. Using your role at the BBC is a shield is a giant cop out. You have spent years treating City as the gold standard project, you now have an official verdict & pretending there is nothing to say. You don't need a law degree to address it. The findings entirely recast the era you have spent years praising. Titles & recruitment sit under a cloud, for how the squad was assembled. None requires “inside information.” Nothing to gain speculating is a selective excuse at best. Commenting on a published verdict is not speculation. You've commented on Manchester United's leadership, recruitment, culture & project constantly yet remain silent here. Impartiality would mean applying the same public-interest standard when the club you have analysed most admiringly is found to be built upon a sham. Instead, you use it as a one-way shield - talk freely or stay mute when it is convenient. City on the pitch, City off the pitch - those are not separate anymore. A tactics correspondent does not have to be Kieran Maguire, but staying silent speaks volumes. As for your follow up comment, you lowered your colours & made it personal in no time at all. Nice man!