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GollyGTFC
October 7, 2021, 9:12pm

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Quoted from BobbyCummingsTackle
There's a wider issue of course.

Replacing an unpopular owner with an owner who kills and chops up journalists in other countries, denies women's rights and runs a country based on a royal family who are autocratic, authoritarian and theocratic (when it suits them).

Some of the Newcastle fans don't want this.

It is something of a challenge to the FA's 'fit and proper test'


Sorry, but it’s not football’s job to be the ethical and moral leaders of the country. We trade with Saudi. We sell them arms. If we’re going to take a stand against Saudi Arabia and some of the things they represent I suggest we start there rather than sport.

I think within 3 years Newcastle will be part of an expanded Big 5 with Chelsea, Liverpool, United & City.
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October 7, 2021, 9:16pm
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Could not give a toss, they is only one team that plays in black & white worth supporting and that team is Grimsby Town.



Maybe Brigg Town if we don't have a game...
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October 7, 2021, 9:26pm

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October 7, 2021, 9:28pm
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Quoted from GollyGTFC


Sorry, but it’s not football’s job to be the ethical and moral leaders of the country. We trade with Saudi. We sell them arms. If we’re going to take a stand against Saudi Arabia and some of the things they represent I suggest we start there rather than sport.

I think within 3 years Newcastle will be part of an expanded Big 5 with Chelsea, Liverpool, United & City.


It might not be football's job to be the ethical and moral leaders of the country but given the popularity and accessibility of it, it wouldn't hurt if it tried.


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October 7, 2021, 9:49pm

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Quoted from GollyGTFC


Sorry, but it’s not football’s job to be the ethical and moral leaders of the country. We trade with Saudi. We sell them arms. If we’re going to take a stand against Saudi Arabia and some of the things they represent I suggest we start there rather than sport.


Football, specifically the PL, is a multi-billion pound industry, one of the country’s largest and most popular exports and with football teams forming the biggest cultural and civic institutions in most towns and cities. Reducing that to some helpless, harmless group of people kicking a bag of wind does a huge disservice to the power and influence that football plays nationally and globally. Why do you think these regimes buy football clubs in the first place, because they’re a good investment? Because they like bovril and balti pies?

These despotic regimes must be challenged and opposed at every level that they operate and wherever they pervade our society. These people have a hand in almost everything you touch nowadays and no, not enough people care to do anything about it. Then again, the last person to stand up against Newcastle’s new owners ended up murdered and cut up into small pieces. Funny that.
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October 7, 2021, 9:54pm
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I’d hate it if some outfit like this took over Town. The state here won’t do anything that jeopardises business with the Saudis, so who is?  Cultural organisations, that’s who. Cultural organisations, one of which is the FA, represent our values. Quite apart from how they desk with internal opposition and human rights, they have exported, sponsored even, a nasty brand of Islam that inspires terrorists who murder people. That’s before we get on to Yemen.

If I was a Geordie, I wouldn’t be happy about this.


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Newcastle will be the new Manchester City. Apparently the wealth of their backers is circa 250 billion which dwarfs even Manchester City and psg, so don’t be surprised if they start making some eye raising signings.
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October 7, 2021, 10:24pm

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Nothing says getting your club back quite like having it sold to a royal family from an oil-rich foreign state with a shocking human rights record.
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October 7, 2021, 10:32pm
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If UK plc can sell the Saudis helicopter gunships, fighter jets, bullets and bombs why shouldn’t they invest in one of our football clubs?


Sadly, that’s right.


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October 7, 2021, 11:59pm
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Just one more reason not to watch PL "football" for me.

When's NUFC Womens team going to do a tour to play in Saudi then...



  
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