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Some good points in this article, some utter bollocks too, including these thoughts on our current situation: and who in Newcastle’s case, rather than breathe a sigh of relief that one of the worst, most evil regimes on planet Earth had been blocked from taking over their club thanks to illegal piracy of television rights, have instead complained bitterly to the UK government. Their petition has been signed by more than 100,000 people: for whom, it might therefore be assumed, the chance of scraping a place in the Europa League is far more important than the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, caused largely by mass murderers who they appear to view as their club’s saviours. Those fans might well turn around and say “but the British government does deals with the Saudis too!” Which of course, it does… but this only begs the question: “Did you vote against that government last year? Or for it?” And if the argument is that the Saudis will bring investment and jobs: well yes, so did Hitler. If he was offering to buy your football club and spend hundreds of millions, would that be OK too? Newcastle, of course, were left trailing in the wake of the Abramovich and Sheikh Mansour takeovers. Toon fans I know protested furiously about the former, in particular — but it turns out, they were just jealous. When money comes calling, any sense of morality or basic decency simply dissolves. The fiancee of poor Jamal Khashoggi even received abuse from some Newcastle fans when pleading with the Premier League to see sense and stop the takeover. https://medium.com/@shaunjlawson/falling-out-of-love-with-football-a-fans-lament-9405585ee211

More arse clenching misery from Johnny Nic... I like him https://www.football365.com/news/peoples-game-premier-league-without-fans-furlough

Fuck off

Glendinning. He really is a massive cunt.

It's not the Barclays thing that gets me, it's Keys and Hoffman knowing each other since childhood and things going very quiet on the takeover front after the beginning of June, sort of after 1st June, the date Hoffman started his new job at the Premier League. All just coincidence, am sure...

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Well fuckin quelle fuckin surprise as they oft say roond oor wey... https://www.bylineinvestigates.com/murdoch/2020/7/28/football-hacking-murdoch-newspapers-hacked-the-premier-league-organisation-on-an-industrial-scale-for-a-decade-at-the-same-time-as-the-sky-sports-mogul-was-flooding-game-with-tv-cash?format=amp&__twitter_impression=true

PS....there’s a diminutive former Tory minister who bares a striking physical similarity to an 80s children’s cartoon character who has deleted all his social media over the weekend. Just saying like...

Im pleased you’ve cleared that up for us, thanks

Devils advocate: What's actually the problem with the PL taking the side of the holder of the rights to broadcast their content in the Middle East? If you were CEO of Bein would you stand idly by and very likely see your livelyhood disappear?

This popped up this morning....the sort of thing that MTV would play at 3am in the early 90s in the middle of a “quiet night in” and blow your mind...don’t think I’ve heard since those days...

You’re 3/5ths of the way to divi 4 ya cunt now fuck off and leave global geo/political machinations to the big boys

That’s shite mate, hope you get something soon ....

No you don’t understand.....they were Arsenal or Liverpool fans till 5/6 years ago, then suddenly they’d been AFCB die hards since before they emerged from the womb. Though they all gloated when AFC & LFC won something in the last year or so, and were a bit sad tonight “Top six “ scarves out for September I imagine though...winners you see... 😏

WhatsApp group gone mad....it’s like KK leaving us apparently....that’s what the all the fuckin Arsenal & Liverpool hypocrites are saying anyway

Schweppes lemonade....on call all weekend

The Saudi Arabian takeover is the logical conclusion of the near 30 year free for all the premier league has been. But we know now that there’s a limit. It’s basically suggesting the clubs that have been created within the PL framework can now dictate to them what they can and can’t do and who can own a club and who can’t.

Weymouth in the Vanarama next year to renew hostilities with their traditional rivals Yeovil...

The Premier League backed up the institution that currently holds the rights to broadcast their content in the Middle East. That those rights holders are also a gang of piously medieval anti democratic cunts without much regard to human rights or indeed human life is neither here nor there. There is no money too tainted for the people currently encouraging players to “take a knee” before games . The sheer rank hypocrisy of many involved and/or commenting on the takeover (I including some of our fellow supporters in that) makes me fuckin sick. The PL have utterly taken the piss out of the prospective buyers, that’s true. I suppose in business terms they’ think they’ve played a blinder. The whole point of the PL is to make huge amounts if money though. Pissing the Saudis off seems to me to be cutting off their noses the spite their face. The Saudis fucked up after the WTO case with their subsequent actions. Easy for the PL after that, even though the constant goal posts moving all through the process had already made issues virtually impossible to resolve . I know I spout off a lot about the Saudi’s etc but now it’s over and listening to what Staveley has said (you’ll need an Athletic subscription for that ) I realise this was truly the last chance saloon. The Saudis won’t come back after being humiliated & embarrassed by the PL and no other fucker is going to buy the club & pump 260mill in over two seasons & also invest in the city in the middle of an unprecedented global pandemic. I might not have gone back if it had gone ahead but there may well have been a very new Newcastle United for generations unknown to enjoy and I certainly have no interest in denying others that.

It’s August...folk who’ve just had 4 months off work need a holiday Bournemouth is mobbed too...people getting off trains complaining of being packed like sardines in the carriages DON’T GET ON THE FUCKIN TRAINS THEN YOU ABSOLUTE WALLOPING FUCKIN IDIOTS

Director Alan Parker

Hows divi 3?

How the fuckin fuck does Delaney think that's going to fuckin work?? PIF: "Hi Premier League can we buy NUFC please?" PL: "No, because of x, y & z" PIF: "Ok, how about MUFC??" PL: "Errr..."