Talking Points

[outwoodclaret]

There is only one real talking point this week. Will national icons Ant & Dec w*nk themselves to death as their beloved Toon become the richest club on the planet? Never mind that the Chairman of the Public Investment Fund which now owns it lock, sock and oil barrel is a man widely believed to have ordered the kidnap, murder and butchering of a journalist who was an opponent of his regime. I am not going to take the moral high ground here. How would we react as Burnley fans if unimaginable riches were to be put into the clutching hands of BFC? I leave this to the Premier League and the players who have set themselves up as the moral guardians of the nation. Now they need to prove there is more substance to that than taking a knee all in the name of “eqwalidee”.

[sinkov]

There is only one real talking point this week. Will national icons Ant & Dec w*nk themselves to death as their beloved Toon become the richest club on the planet? Never mind that the Chairman of the Public Investment Fund which now owns it lock, sock and oil barrel is a man widely believed to have ordered the kidnap, murder and butchering of a journalist who was an opponent of his regime. I am not going to take the moral high ground here. How would we react as Burnley fans if unimaginable riches were to be put into the clutching hands of BFC? I leave this to the Premier League and the players who have set themselves up as the moral guardians of the nation. Now they need to prove there is more substance to that than taking a knee all in the name of “eqwalidee”.

I'll stop jeering at our knee-taking millionaires when they declare a refusal to play football in Qatar, a state that utilises slave labour and acquired the right to hold the WC through bribery and corruption. I suspect I'll have to keep jeering a for a while yet though.