It seems to have been forgotten in the midsts of time, but it is well worth remembering the Der Spiegel articles and how they were written.
Outside of a few hacked documents, it was primarily padded out over five days with nothing more than spiteful words to denigrate the club and its history, laying it on thick when it came to our lack of success over the last few decades.
It spoke as if we had basically appeared in 2008 and offered plenty of superior moralising.
City were right to cite it as a clear attempt to damage the club's name.
For me, however, the narrative from De Spiegel betrayed quite a lot in terms of an agenda being served on behalf of an outside party.
It had a very German-centric influence that wreaked of Bayern undertones.
My other conclusion, based on the current politics, are all roads pointing towards Qatar, certainly in light of the recent Facebook revelations about negative accounts being set up about City in India?
Both seriously have the motive. We know the hacker by name but he had no input into how it was presented?