Are we now worried ?

[Claret_Matelot]

Will they do a Jack Walker and 'Buy' the Premiership Title. How would we feel if there was suddenly no financial contraints on SD and he could buy literally whoever he wanted? I would have mixed emotions if we won the Prem title with a team of purchased superstars who don't fit our 'Burnley' mould.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Following news of the riddance of Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley from their club Chairman’s ranks, the English Premier League must now immediately climb down from their post of global football’s self - appointed “Guardians of Morality”.

The sheer hypocrisy of insisting that EPL players “take the knee” to end racism seems a tad rich given the fact they have allowed, Saudi Arabia’s powerful and precocious Crown Prince to become the de facto owner of Newcastle United Football Club.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in his former role of Saudi Arabia’s defence minister initiated what has since become a six year long bombing campaign to halt the progress of Yemen’s Shia Houthi militias. Now globally regarded for what it is, a merciless pushback against the Shia via an inhumane war in Yemen, it is difficult to comprehend how the EPL hierarchy have allowed such a takeover to happen.

The Saudi regime’s penchant for disregarding human rights will hopefully escape current Toon manager Steve Bruce. The highly respected American Wall Street Journal recently revealed that the Saudi authorities carried out a campaign of arrests of princes from the Saudi ruling family. Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and his nephew Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, the former crown prince, and others were arrested without trial for “betrayal of the homeland”.

We can only imagine the fate of a Toon manager should they get dumped out of the third round of the FA Cup at home to a non-league side. Hereford Town anyone?

Due diligence has obviously gone out of the window when one recalls that on 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi dissident, journalist, columnist for The Washington Post, and former editor of Al-Watan and former general manager and editor-in-chief of the Al-Arab News Channel, was assassinated by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

There is little international doubt the assassination was conducted under the auspice of the Saudi Crown Prince.

To the many now joyous and gleeful supporters of Newcastle United, I send one simple cautionary message, “Be careful what you wish for guys”. I hope somehow an Iranian backed Shia billionaire acquires Sunderland Football Club; the fallout will be seismic. (TEC).

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[Supersub6]

Following news of the riddance of Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley from their club Chairman’s ranks, the English Premier League must now immediately climb down from their post of global football’s self - appointed “Guardians of Morality”.

The sheer hypocrisy of insisting that EPL players “take the knee” to end racism seems a tad rich given the fact they have allowed, Saudi Arabia’s powerful and precocious Crown Prince to become the de facto owner of Newcastle United Football Club.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in his former role of Saudi Arabia’s defence minister initiated what has since become a six year long bombing campaign to halt the progress of Yemen’s Shia Houthi militias. Now globally regarded for what it is, a merciless pushback against the Shia via an inhumane war in Yemen, it is difficult to comprehend how the EPL hierarchy have allowed such a takeover to happen. .............................................

I think that the word you are looking for as far as the PL hierarchy is concerned, BT, is -----------MONEY!
We can only surmise what has transpired since this takeover was first mooted.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

I think that the word you are looking for as far as the PL hierarchy is concerned, BT, is -----------MONEY!
We can only surmise what has transpired since this takeover was first mooted.

I did not wish to appear suspicious that money was the motivating factor for this human rights travesty Supersub6. I notice the silence from Her Majesty's government is deafening.

More arm sales anyone?

[sinkov]

Following news of the riddance of Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley from their club Chairman’s ranks, the English Premier League must now immediately climb down from their post of global football’s self - appointed “Guardians of Morality”.

The sheer hypocrisy of insisting that EPL players “take the knee” to end racism seems a tad rich given the fact they have allowed, Saudi Arabia’s powerful and precocious Crown Prince to become the de facto owner of Newcastle United Football Club.

Prince Mohammed bin Salman, in his former role of Saudi Arabia’s defence minister initiated what has since become a six year long bombing campaign to halt the progress of Yemen’s Shia Houthi militias. Now globally regarded for what it is, a merciless pushback against the Shia via an inhumane war in Yemen, it is difficult to comprehend how the EPL hierarchy have allowed such a takeover to happen.

The Saudi regime’s penchant for disregarding human rights will hopefully escape current Toon manager Steve Bruce. The highly respected American Wall Street Journal recently revealed that the Saudi authorities carried out a campaign of arrests of princes from the Saudi ruling family. Prince Ahmed bin Abdulaziz, the younger brother of King Salman, and his nephew Muhammad bin Nayef bin Abdulaziz, the former crown prince, and others were arrested without trial for “betrayal of the homeland”.

We can only imagine the fate of a Toon manager should they get dumped out of the third round of the FA Cup at home to a non-league side. Hereford Town anyone?

Due diligence has obviously gone out of the window when one recalls that on 2 October 2018, Jamal Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi dissident, journalist, columnist for The Washington Post, and former editor of Al-Watan and former general manager and editor-in-chief of the Al-Arab News Channel, was assassinated by agents of the Saudi government at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey.

There is little international doubt the assassination was conducted under the auspice of the Saudi Crown Prince.

To the many now joyous and gleeful supporters of Newcastle United, I send one simple cautionary message, “Be careful what you wish for guys”. I hope somehow an Iranian backed Shia billionaire acquires Sunderland Football Club; the fallout will be seismic. (TEC).

An even more vile regime, and much more dangerous player on the world stage than Saudi Arabia is China. Wolves are Chinese owned and Southampton is 80% Chinese owned. This apparently this causes you no undue concern BT ?

Myopia ? Or hypocrisy ?

[sinkov]

"Amanda Staveley exclusive: 'This is the game changer for Newcastle - we are here to win'"

I wonder if Mr Pace would like to tell us what ALK are here for.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

An even more vile regime, and much more dangerous player on the world stage than Saudi Arabia is China. Wolves are Chinese owned and Southampton is 80% Chinese owned. This apparently this causes you no undue concern BT ?

Myopia ? Or hypocrisy ?

No hypocrisy or myopia here mon ami, it just illuminates the sheer f*ucking hypocsisy of the EPL and our government.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

"Amanda Staveley exclusive: 'This is the game changer for Newcastle - we are here to win'"

I wonder if Mr Pace would like to tell us what ALK are here for.

I had a luncheon yesterday with a good friend of mine who has been gainfully employed in a senior role with Burnley Football Club for 17 years now and he can offer no answer to your question mon ami.

[Balanbam00]

Norder : We must not forget Iran's policy ( being Shia Muslims )of causing chaos in the Middle east ,encouraging resistance ! We see this in Iran's support of Hezbullah, Hamas and the Houthis in Yemen. Shia Islam in Yemen is practiced by an important minority, 'Zaydi Muslims' include about 25 percent of the population, Sunnis are 75 percent, and there are also tiny minorities of Muslims who are members of other Shia sects — the Ismaili and Twelver communities. The Zaidi branch of Islam, also known as Fivers, is a sect of Islam almost exclusively present in Yemen. The Zaydis ruled Yemen for 1,000 years up until 1962. During this time they ferociously defended their independence and fought off foreign powers
Tehran has been sending increasingly complex weapons to Yemen’s Houthi rebels even as Iranian officials have engaged in separate talks with the United States and Saudi Arabia about reducing tensions in the region. “In the Yemen context, we have seen more attacks from the Houthis launched at Saudi Arabia in the first half of this year than we have for several prior years.”

“Iran is increasing the lethality and complexity of both the equipment and the knowledge it transfers to the Houthis so that they can attack Saudi territory [and] Saudi civilians.” Simple Saudi Arabia has oil and the Houthis ,nothing but naughy Iran?

[The Bedlington Terrier]

Norder : We must not forget Iran's policy ( being Shia Muslims )of causing chaos in the Middle east ,encouraging resistance ! We see this in Iran's support of Hezbullah, Hamas and the Houthis in Yemen. Shia Islam in Yemen is practiced by an important minority, 'Zaydi Muslims' include about 25 percent of the population, Sunnis are 75 percent, and there are also tiny minorities of Muslims who are members of other Shia sects — the Ismaili and Twelver communities. The Zaidi branch of Islam, also known as Fivers, is a sect of Islam almost exclusively present in Yemen. The Zaydis ruled Yemen for 1,000 years up until 1962. During this time they ferociously defended their independence and fought off foreign powers
Tehran has been sending increasingly complex weapons to Yemen’s Houthi rebels even as Iranian officials have engaged in separate talks with the United States and Saudi Arabia about reducing tensions in the region. “In the Yemen context, we have seen more attacks from the Houthis launched at Saudi Arabia in the first half of this year than we have for several prior years.”

“Iran is increasing the lethality and complexity of both the equipment and the knowledge it transfers to the Houthis so that they can attack Saudi territory [and] Saudi civilians.” Simple Saudi Arabia has oil and the Houthis ,nothing but naughy Iran?

The geopolitics of Sunni and Shia "faiths" will now integrate their nonsense into the EPL - we are better off out of it!

Never mind taking the knee, get your prayer mats out at Gallowgate lads...

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