As I am sure we are all aware from what we have seen and read, part of the gruesome reality of living in a dictatorship lies in the inability to avoid the propaganda of the State, regardless of where you go or what you find yourself doing. The political messages are thrust into your face during every waking moment. This is the point we have now reached in our own country's descent into tyranny. It is no longer possible to watch a sports fixture, whether it be football, rugby, cricket or anything else, without being subjected to Marxism shouting straight into our faces. Everything in the broadcast media, from 'news' through drama, comedy and all the rest, is soaked in Wokeness and it's various fetishes. The same applies to every printed publication, even including those dealing with seemingly innocuous subjects; we can't read a magazine about gardening without being treated to a polemic about "systemic racism" or some other imaginary concept. I honestly never imagining that these horrors could be inflicted upon our nation.
In the meantime, though, it's goodbye to Manchester City and to professional football in general. The spell as been well and truly broken. I'll carry on following non-league and I will thoroughly enjoy it, so long as they don't get mixed up in any political nonsense, of course.