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Her father had spoken to countless reporters since then and it just so happened that I was interviewing him when 16 years of tortuous uncertainty were coming to an end.

City, however, will have to climb several levels if this painful, tortuous Champions League journey is to continue in the last 16.

If he digs back through the archives, Khusanov will find he is not the first January signing to endure a tortuous bow at Etihad Stadium.

The deal follows months of tortuous negotiations led by Qatar, Egypt and the United States, with the Qataris regularly expressing frustration and threatening to walk away at one point.

Prime ministers often manage to wax lyrical at considerable length in a letter marking a departure, however tortuous or headline-making the whole saga has been.