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Yep me too. Fucking horrifying amount of blood

Any links for this?

That's exactly my point. You aren't being paid a fair wage, and it's not because of a bit petty fraud at the bottom end it's the systematic hoovering the wealth out if the system by the top

For some people their best option is to scam the system because the system is fucked. Again direct your anger at the right people. There is enough money swilling around at the top that everybody in this country could be living in absolute luxury, but people are too busy worrying about some scratter nicking a couple of grand of the bottom. And the ruling class further pull up the drawbridge and say "look over there"

Jesus fucking wept people. Know your enemy! It's not the fucking poor who are the root af this countries problems

What are you talking about. 100% natural

I'm quite enjoying seeing the cunt twist in the wind to be honest. Will make it even sweeter when they finally put him out of our misery

Ah well, it was nice while it lasted

In a bizarre coincidence there is a picture of this game in an article in today's guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2021/oct/16/conflict-of-emotions-greets-newcastles-first-game-under-their-saudi-owners

The really sickening thing about this Frost behaviour is it actually seems to be working to some extent

Yep I'm finally out as well. Matt Hancock in a cushy new job, and the select committee report about the government complete fuck up of covid response hand waved away without a care. People are fucking idiots

My first game saw Wynn the Leap score the winner against Man City. If I see them this season I will have seen games in 7 decades

Have 17 of them in the house, have read 7 Can't bear to show the list to my wife or daughter because I will be hit with a wave of superiority and smugness the literary fuckers

Sprinters are the only way to go, all the other vans are for amateurs

Could do a lot worse than Potter. I watch a lot of Brighton, and they seem extremely well coached. If we aren't getting a Conté type he would be infinitely preferable to Slippy fucking G

The only manager whose been linked who I hate more than Rodgers is Gerard. I'll be gutted if it's either of them. Can't think of anybody better than Rafa to see a top to bottom overhaul but sadly I think the chances of that are fairly remote

Arsenal fan from a non football board I frequent posted this from Arseblog. Refreshingly even handed Newcastle fans are excited, and why wouldn’t they be? They hate Mike Ashley, so the fact he’s going to be gone, and replaced by a group that is richer than Croesus to boot, must be very welcome. I reckon Satan himself could rock up to St James’ Park and would be given a warm welcome simply because he is not Mike Ashley. Intense dislike of one thing makes any kind of alternative seem welcome. I’ve read the articles about sports washing, and honestly one of the most disheartening things about football these days is that the genie is so far out of the bottle this kind of takeover is inevitable. I just think it’s a shame that the people who run the game have allowed this landscape to develop, and that fans who want their teams to be competitive basically have to hope and pray that they are taken over by a billionaire, an oligarch, or a nation state. It’s actually depressing. Instead of putting in place some measures which at least try and maintain some measure of financial equanimity – something with more teeth than FFP – they have pandered to the people with money who now ride roughshod over almost every aspect of the game. Broadcasting behemoths call the shots at the expense of fans; rich owners distort the transfer market; players and agents capitalise with lucrative contracts and wages; advertisers and marketers piggyback; gambling firms leech off punters with intense adverting campaigns, and we’re now seeing the rise of unregulated cryptocurrency makers using football as a way to sell their essentially worthless $h1tcoin to fans as they dress it up as some way of having influence. Ugh. This isn’t to be critical of Newcastle fans by the way. How can any Arsenal fan take the moral high ground on their takeover when you look at our club? Our owner is a billionaire who is tied to the Walton family (Walmart) whose influence on American life via its work practices, anti-union stance, working conditions, and lots more have been under constant scrutiny for years. Read here. He’s currently engaged in a lawsuit with the city of St Louis over the move of the Rams to LA. One of his companies broadcast a trophy hunting TV channel where big brave men shot defenceless animals with high powered rifles for ‘sport’. He makes people homeless. And that’s just the tip of the Kroenke real-estate/tax breaks iceberg. Our stadium and shirt sponsor is Emirates Airlines, a subsidiary of The Emirates Group, which itself is a subsidiary of the Dubai government’s investment company, Investment Corporation of Dubai. Homosexuality is illegal in Dubai. I love when Arsenal support the Rainbow Laces campaign; I love when the club offers support to LGBT+ groups, because I believe everyone should be allowed be who they are without fear or recrimination, and I think Arsenal do amazing work to help slowly break down barriers and ‘normalise’ things for some of our fans (and beyond). But how to do you marry that with our sponsors? I think they call it cognitive dissonance. Our sleeve sponsor is ‘Visit Rwanda’. If you have the time or the inclination, this video from Channel 4 news is well worth a watch. It features the daughter of Paul Rusesabagina, subject of the Hotel Rwanda film, reacting to her father’s 25 year jail sentence last month after a trial ‘riddled with irregularities and evidence of political interference’ according to Human Rights Watch. Rwandan president Paul Kagame is an Arsenal fan, hence the connection, and he recently made some pointed comments about our start to the season. Paul Kagame ‘long ago quashed any semblance of democracy in Rwanda, and is regularly returned to power with over 90% of the vote. Opponents abroad have been shot or strangled to death. None of these murders has been pinned directly on Mr Kagame’s intelligence services, but the president has openly said that the victims got what they deserved’ [source]. He squashes dissent from media/journalists, Reporters Without Borders say: RPF (Kagame’s party) has recorded the killings or disappearances of eight journalists, and the convictions of a dozen journalists sentenced to lengthy prison terms. In addition, about 30 journalists were forced into exile. It’s only journalists though, don’t worry about them. I guess he might get along with the new Newcastle owners at the Premier League elites mixer, perhaps taking some tips in how to chop up a journalist who asks the wrong questions. Watch out if your enquiry about the tactical shift under whoever the new Toon boss is doesn’t go down well. So look, if you have concerns about human rights in Saudi Arabia, that’s a perfectly normal position to take, and it’s certainly much more than a ‘comms issue‘ but I don’t think blame or scrutiny should be attached to Newcastle fans for welcoming a new owner. Why should they be held to higher standards than anyone else? Think pieces about sports-washing and all those nefarious associations need to focus on how and why we’ve got to a point where these kinds of owners are being solicited and welcomed. Obviously it’s not just Arsenal, but see how much cognitive dissonance we have to apply – and we’re not really seen as one of the truly ‘bad guys’. Look at Chelsea. Look at Man City. Look at PSG. Look at all the sponsors and advertisers. Look at how money has corrupted the very essence of the sport. It seems a little bit much to start throwing toys out of the pram now because Newcastle’s owners don’t stand up to moral scrutiny because that has been the case for a long time now in the Premier League. Fit and proper and all that. Maybe the Newcastle thing is the straw that broke the camel’s back for some people – although some might argue it’s a case that those at the top don’t want another team to compete with due to their upcoming financial strength – but nobody stopped to notice the camel has been dead for a long, long time

Jinky?

Holy Shit!

I just watched that, it's beyond wildest dreams stuff

At what point do we start getting nervous that it's not going to happen?

I wish they would just go ahead and announce this. I've got a minging hangover and I'm desperate for a hair of the dog

Here's why this won't happen, I'm 60 fucking years old today, and the Universe is obviously just fucking with my misery

Stop it!