Presumably they have had a legal letter from Newcastle warning them to get it right. Interesting that Wilson feels comfortable repeating a totally false claim that City is "owned by a foreign state." He knows full well this is not true because we have been independently audited dozens of times in the past decade, investigated by lawyers from UEFA, scrutinised under due diligence by all our sponsors and investors, and been comprehensively cleared of any improper links with the ABU Dhabi state by a panel of CAS judges. Not even UEFA have accused City of being "owned by a state." In fact, apart from a very small cabal of journalists (probably a minority in the media) no one has accused us of this.
Yet Wilson is happy to write this and the Guardian is happy to publlish these slanderous claims without any supporting evidence. It tells you all you need to know about Wilson's character.