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BY KAVEH KAGHAZI

A red card for Manchester City CEO Garry Cook. Cook resigned from the club after mistakenly sending an offensive e-mail to the mother of Man City defender Nedum Onuoha. Sky Sports explains the messy situation.

“The e-mail was sent from Garry Cook’s e-mail address and seemed to be intended for the football administrator here, Brian Marwood. Now in that e-mail it ridiculed the situation that Dr. Anthonia Onuoha finds herself in. She’s being treated for cancer at the moment and it seems to mock that situation.”

Cook initially denied sending the e-mail, claiming he was hacked. The e-mail came after Anthonia Onuoha told Cook she was quote- “ravaged with cancer.” Onuoha, who is also her son’s agent, said her health would not affect contract negotiations between her son and the club.

The Huffington Post describes the email.

“She later received an email from Cook addressed to ‘Brian’ that read: ‘Ravaged with it!!........ I don't know how you sleep at night. You used to be such a nice man when I worked with you at Nike. G.’”

A commentator from The Independent says Cook stepped on very thin ice.

“…One thing is clear: cancer remains a strictly taboo subject, and, should it be treated in any way insensitively or light-heartedly, the moral panic button goes off like the clappers.”

After an internal investigation by the club, Cook admitted to making an “error in judgment” and resigned on Friday. A writer for The Guardian asks, where do Cook and Man City go from here?

“Our concern must be for the City chief executive ‘going forward’, as he would doubtless put it. I have no idea how many City fans could live with losing Garry. Or, indeed, how many would kill to keep him, given … [the] repeated assertions this week that Garry is an inspirational figure to his staff.”

Finally, a writer from The Toronto Star says this whole mess could have been avoided if Cook had just told the truth from the start.

“…the most puzzling thing about this turmoil is not its genesis — silly people say silly things when they think no one is listening — but the enormously bumbling way in which it was handled once uncovered.”

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