Premier League and sports/entertainment morals or lack of

[Zippity]

If the prem tried that. . . they'd be hit with billion pound lawsuits, I can't see them risking it.

Not even kidding...this was the thought that was keeping me up last night!

I was trying to second-guess, double bluff myself to see who would win out! I was going 'well if the PL say no then the Saudis would hit them with a lawsuit which they could easily afford but which would potentially ruin the Pl....but surely the PL would have thought of that and would have put something in place to prevent this ...but then the Saudis would have anticipated them anticipating this and'.....well, then I think I must have fallen asleep.

[sherwoodmag]

A lot seems to be about beheadings,In my lifetime capital punishment was normal in most countries,the last male hanging in Britain was 1964,the last female hanged in this country was 1955.As for heads lopped off the last was in France in 1977 using the guilitine.So I was 30 year old when the French last beheaded a man.
The Chinese still use a bullet in the back of the neck. The Russians used to do the same but I'm not sure if they still do.

[Kal]

Ah...I'm sure I read about if the person had committed a crime in another country?

I know the evidence is overwhelming, but I don't recall a trial, let alone a guilty verdict.

[tooslomofo]

If you look hard enough most countries will have blood on their hands.
Saudi Arabia are seen to be allies of the U.K. we have traded billions of arms to countries with a lot of them on the human right watch list UAE being one of them.

There is Arab money running into and financing a lot of companies now e.g. Uber
It starts to grey a bit people are ok with Arab money being invested in Uber so what’s the difference?
The owner of Sheffield Utd is the Saudi PM?
What’s the difference.


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[Kal]

I give you Anthony Charles Lynton Blair !

[toptoon]

If you look hard enough most countries will have blood on their hands.
Saudi Arabia are seen to be allies of the U.K. we have traded billions of arms to countries with a lot of them on the human right watch list UAE being one of them.

There is Arab money running into and financing a lot of companies now e.g. Uber
It starts to grey a bit people are ok with Arab money being invested in Uber so what’s the difference?
The owner of Sheffield Utd is the Saudi PM?
What’s the difference.


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The difference is, quite simply, that some people ignore/don’t mind links with Saudi Arabia when it affects them positively but complain loudly when this link, doesn’t.

[BenArfa10]

Th e a Premier League won’t reject this deal. I’m sure #10 Downing Street will have been on the phone saying it’s in the national interest that you ratify this deal.

It’s sad but this is the way the world works. Now the excuse is that that those Intelligence operatives acted on their own, when they decided to hack that journalist to death, and those at the top had no idea they would go so far. Those operatives have now been brought to ‘justice’. Who really believes that? If they were going to extraordinarily render him and bring him back to the Kingdom, it would have been an easy task to sedate him and smuggle him onto a plane ✈️ . That never happened.

After that whole sorry affair, governments voiced their outrage but it was business as usual a couple of weeks later, no sanctions or halting the sale of arms. I think only Canada threatened to do something.

If multiple governments do f—k all, what do moralising high horse critics expect Newcastle fans to do? They can jog on!

Yes I stopped attending games because of Ashley but that is due to a lack of ambition. That will clearly not be the case with the new owners. I’m going to go to games and support the club I love. Geopolitics does not fall on us as Newcastle fans. People that think it does and who are obnoxious about it can go suck on a Cactus.

[Kal]

If multiple governments do f—k all, what do moralising high horse critics expect Newcastle fans to do? They can jog on!

Exactly.