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NAIROBI: An Arsenal fan in football-mad Kenya hanged himself following his team's 4-1 aggregate drubbing by arch-rivals Manchester United in the C
hampions League semi-final, police said on Wednesday.
Suleiman Alphonso Omondi, a 29-year-old Kenyan living in the capital Nairobi's Embakasi neighbourhood, hanged himself in his Arsenal shirt
late Tuesday after the match, police said.
"We were watching the match at Bamba 70 pub, and when Arsenal was defeated, Suleiman just walked out in protest and he was crying," Calvin Otieno, one of his friends, said.
"We didn't know he was going to hang himself until this morning when we received the reports and came here to find his body at the balcony," Otieno said outside the deceased's home.
Arsenal slumped to a 3-1 defeat at home in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final, capping a disappointing season for the Gunners who were already out of the Premier League title race early in the season.
Football-related domestic tragedies are frequent in the region, where English clubs enjoy passionate following and European games draw more attention than national and continental games.
Some of you might take a piss, but try to see it from these people's perspective; they live in poor, disfunctional countries, more often than not being poor and jobless themselves and (believe it or not) football is sometimes only way out of everyday doom and gloom that they're surrounded with (even if it's only via satelite)...so it's easy to imagine that these people put a lot more emotions into it, simply because it becomes main thing in life...
I just wish some of c**ts that wear Arsenal shirt nowdays had 10% of love for the club that this poor sod had.
I also felt quite bad last night, but it only went as far as saying I'll never go to see another Arsenal game as long as AW is in charge...
