One of Andy Burnham's key advisors has hit back at the wife of former Manchester United player Angel Di Maria over her comments about the city.
Sacha Lord, who works alongside the region's mayor Burnham and also co-founded the city's famed Warehouse Project club nights, has slammed Jorgelina Cardoso.
It comes after Di Maria's wife called Manchester 's---' and 'horrible' in a long rant against the city, after her husband flopped as a United player following £59.7million transfer from Real Madrid in the summer of 2014. "I didn't like anything about it, not a thing," she said. "The women are all pasty-faced and white, prim and proper - weird.
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