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Nairobi, May 06, 2009 –
An Arsenal fan in soccer-mad Kenya hanged himself following his team's
4-1 aggregate drubbing by arch-rivals Manchester United in the Champions
League semifinal, 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, told reporters.
"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 semifinal, 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.
Source: AFP, May 06, 2009
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