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The Booker-winning novelist has previously expressed his opposition to "sensitivity readers", the practice of hiring someone to read a manuscript before its publication in order to point out things that might be offensive to readers.

However, the Premier League voted through the amendments despite opposition from Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa, as well as City.

Crowds are there to back their team and even booing of the opposition is tolerated these days.

Speaking on RTÉ's Morning Ireland, she said her name was "no longer in the mix" and that she needed to "lead from the front" while in opposition.

Children of detained opposition activists were seized and given up for adoption.