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Article: The heart has been ripped from the club I have loved for 50 years.(Sport)
- Article from:
- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2009
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Byline: COLIN SHINDLER
COLIN SHINDLER'S best-selling novel Manchester United Ruined My Life charted his upbringing in an Orthodox Jewish family in central Manchester in the Fifties and Sixties. He grew up a City fan during years of ineptitude on and off the pitch as their glamorous neighbours grew into a footballing and financial superpower. But City's wealthy Arab owners have left Shindler heartbroken and he's looking for a cure to take away the pain.
YOU see, doctor, we were childhood sweethearts, that's why it hurts so much. I can honestly say I can't remember a time in my life when I didn't support Manchester City - body and soul and mind - but now ...