Originally Posted by
HughieG
No one needs to shut up about human rights nor our football club. New owners are coming in, naturally we are debating to which degree we feel we can support them.
Like Benny said, the keyword here is conflict. I'm not against the takeover at all, and have found peace with the fact that politics, power and money are integrated deeply with football, and there is nothing we can do about that until the proper legislation comes around. Which I don't think it will for a long, long time. As fans, it is our job to try and separate these things and I am intent on doing that.
Surely, as much as everyone hates Ashley, we all recognize there is a difference between being a dodgy, cheap businessman to being one of the richest, most poweful people on the planet, who can even order the murder of a critic and get away with it in broad daylight, so to speak. As much as Kashoggi seems to have had a dodgy past, that murder is the closest thing I've seen to fascism in some time.
However, we are not just simply comparing the two; we are comparing them connected to our club. In that case, Ashley is by far the worse alternative. And we need change.
I have been surprised at how many fans have been willing to actually portray MSB as a "good guy" or at least not as bad as the press has made out. What is the point? We know who he is, what he has done and all research will tell you that he's a powerfreak and a killer. It's silly to all of a sudden start believing conspiracies and this type of thing in order to defend the takeover IMO. Instead it's wiser to separate these things and realise that the world is not as black 'n white as we would like it to be sometimes.
MSB might come to own our club, but he is not the club. We are the club and it is insane to suggest that we should stop supporting it just because of this guy. We couldn't even if we wanted to.