Fan hangs himself in Kenya after Arsenal lose to Manchester
UnitedFrom correspondents in Nairobi, Kenya
May 06, 2009
An Arsenal fan in football-mad Kenya hanged himself following his team's
4-1 aggregate drubbing by arch-rivals Manchester United in the Champions League
semi-final, police said.
Suleiman Alphonso Omondi, a 29-year-old Kenyan
living in the capital Nairobi's Embakasi neighbourhood, hanged himself in his
Arsenal shirt 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 Barclays 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.
sve prolazi sve se mijenja, idu dani idu godine, samo Zrinjski ostaje ponos moje Hercegovine