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Man City skipper Kompany furious CSKA Moscow fans allowed in stadium

Manchester City captain Vincent Kompany was angry seeing CSKA Moscow fans supporting the home team in last night's Champions League clash.

Moscow's Khimki Arena was supposed to be empty apart from media, club officials and sponsors guests after UEFA punished CSKA for problems with their supporters in the past.

But City played out a disappointing 2-2 draw against a background of noise and fierce support from about 300 fans in the main stand.

An angry Kompany said: "This one really annoys me and maybe it's on top of other things as well.

"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, you know?

"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 know?

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

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