“…that led is (sic) to to (sic) the question, ‘How do fans legitimise this style of behaviour? How do they legitimise supporting an ownership connected to human rights abuses and activities widely seen as unethical?’”
That isn’t an academic basis for a study because it presumes that fans do legitimise supporting the ownership and that the ownership requires being legitimised.
A lot of people will say it’s obvious that City fans display the above behaviour but that’s not how academia works. You start off with a question and use evidence to answer it through an objective process.
This clown has started with the answer and worked backwards from there.