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Who Is Being Done For Racism? Man City Or Moscow?

Vincent Kompany was left fuming after some CSKA fans were in attendance at yesterday's behind closed doors Chamipons League match in Moscow. CSKA appeared to have around 200-300 fans backing them at a game

UEFA ordered the stadium to be closed for the Champions League tie as punishment for the racist behaviour of the CSKA supporters and crowd trouble at recent European games. Kompany believes City were at a disadvantage and has questioned the fairness of the UEFA punishment.

Speaking to the Independent Kompany said: "You say 'no fans' then all of a sudden you turn up and basically the only team that hasn't got fans is Man City. So who's getting punished? Who is being done for racism? Man City or Moscow?

"I don't have a problem, they'll say it's sponsors and so on and they need to give certain allocations, but why are we getting punished?

"You'll have people in your papers writing columns saying, 'he should be looking at his own performance and stuff' - so we've analysed it and we know we should have done better but things like this are unacceptable to be honest, there's just no fairness in it."

UEFA is likely to face questions over the issue.

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