'I'm concerned just about staying open to be honest'
'We've been to Rotterdam, Monaco, Napoli and Rome, but we'll be playing Rotherham at home, Rotherham at home...' Manchester City fans have responded with customary black humour to the crisis facing their club.
And what would relegation, the loss of the big European mid-week games, and the drop in attendances that would almost surely follow mean for local businesses that rely on match-day trade? The modern transformation of east Manchester began with the 2002 Commonwealth Games. It's come to be regarded as a turning point in Manchester's history, building on the regeneration kickstarted by the 1996 IRA bomb by bringing back to life deprived districts and regenerating vast parts of the city.
Kaleem Ahmed has run corner shop Sweet City in Beswick for 30 years. In that time he's seen the area transform from a 'a crime-ridden, forgotten part of Manchester' to a 'place people want to live'. "They'll be 200-300 people in here on a matchday, the rest of the time we're lucky if there's two," said Chris, who grew up in nearby Openshaw. "Without matchdays we'd struggle."The club generates so much money for this area. But they've also been ruthless in some ways - they wanted to build something over there and just bought everybody out - that's what I mean by ruthless.
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