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Starting to feel like this is going tits up quickly.
Government unlikely to block Saudi-led Newcastle United takeover..so said the Guardian report I copied in the above post.

However, there is mounting pressure from elsewhere and whether or not this lot: "That beIN Sports has been the biggest obstacle to the Saudi takeover demonstrates the extent to which toxic geopolitics now infest the English game." ( https://www.theguardian.com/football...e-battleground) and Amnesty International will scupper the deal appears to remain with the PL:

Meanwhile Richard Masters, the Premier League’s chief executive, has moved to reassure Amnesty that sufficient rigour will be applied to the governing body’s checks on and it will not be a mere rubber stamping exercise.

So the wait continues.