Man City fan vows never to watch another game after Pep Guardiola’s ‘genocide’ comments

He went on to explain why. "Pep Guardiola has been very defamatory about Israel, accusing the country of a genocide.

"I wrote to the club to say, 'look, there are Jewish fans at the club and what he is saying is basically spreading a false narrative and, regardless of what he believes, he is in a privileged position as manager of Man City where he should focus on football’.

"He really needs to understand his facts rather than taking a very one-sided view and then repeating it over and over again – the kind of language that has led to the increase in antisemitism in the UK.

"I got no response to that letter."

Hamburger has made a promise to himself to not watch his club for another moment until the issues are addressed.

"I haven't watched one minute of Man City this season," he said. "I haven't watched them on the TV, I haven't watched them live - I haven't even watched them on social media.

"Because of how Pep is behaving and because of the clubs response to that, I truly feel betrayed... I am gutted.

"I won't watch another game until the club addresses this," but added: "I don't think they care."

He went on to talk about the Man City's Jewish history, citing numerous players and officials that got club to where it is today.

"The club has a tremendous Jewish heritage. There is zero appreciation for what we have contributed to the club, in my view.

He added that Pep “doesn't mention how devastated he is about the children that are killed in Syria, Ethiopia, Ukraine, and the millions of people who have been displaced in Sudan”.

Guardiola talked about the conflict on Spanish radio station RAC1 ahead of a Catalonia-Palestine friendly in Barcelona, according to a MailOnline report.

He reportedly said: "Every time I imagine what is happening to the people of Palestine, it's that the whole world has left them alone.

"But I imagine the people there waiting for us to lift a finger, to do something, and that no one has done anything at all...

"There, for a very long time now, we have allowed the destruction of an entire people because they say, 'don't say genocide'. I wonder what it is then.

"The people who live there, we've abandoned them."

He went on: "I am absolutely taking the side of Palestine - the innocent people who are murdered daily, because the man drawing this up decides what he decides, because if he is not capable of solving it through a ceasefire, gesture, the symbolism you mentioned, and only through force.

"One has extremely powerful weapons and the other does not, then you tell me.”

In June, when Guardiola received an honourary degree from the University of Manchester, he used his acceptance speech to talk about Gaza, insisting that people must "refuse to be silent and still when it matters most".

The JC contacted Manchester City for comment.