Bruce gone at the Toon...

[ClaretinBudapest]

Shows clearly the real point of FFP, not to provide a level playing field as they pretended, but to make sure there were no challengers to the top clubs, to make sure they could continue to dominate at the top of their leagues and in Europe. They were raking in the big money and FFP meant that was the way it would stay, no Jack Walkers or murderous Arabian sheiks muscling in and climbing aboard their gravy train.

Nothing a bit of creative accounting cannot solve Sinkov.Man City got away with it.

[sinkov]

Nothing a bit of creative accounting cannot solve Sinkov.Man City got away with it.

But they were already up there CiB, on the gravy train when the $hit hit the fan, try breaking into that cartel and you'll find it a lot harder.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

But they were already up there CiB, on the gravy train when the $hit hit the fan, try breaking into that cartel and you'll find it a lot harder.

If you can get away with chopping a journalist to bits and putting him through the mincing machine, finding the odd billion will present no problem whatsoever.

One of Cameron's "associates" will find a way to convert the sale of a few BAE products into a transfer war chest at Gallowgate I'm sure.

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[Balanbam00]

Saudi Arabia may be opening up ! ( slowly!)

On June 24, 2018, Saudi women took their place behind the wheel, driving on the Kingdom's roads legally for the first time. The historic day came about as part of a series of reforms under Vision 2030, announced in 2016 by then-Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. It was followed by a royal decree on Sept.
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Sun, sea and the opposite *** as Saudi Arabia slowly loosens up

https://www.timesofisrael.com/sun-se...ly-loosens-up/

At Pure Beach near Jeddah, there is music, dancing and an inflatable water park, while some women even wear once unthinkable bikinis
For Asma, spending a day on the beach with her boyfriend was unthinkable until recently in deeply conservative Saudi Arabia.
Now, the 32-year-old is dancing with her partner on white sands fringing the Red Sea, to music thumping from loudspeakers.
It’s a small reminder of the changes underway in the Islamic kingdom, which is attempting to ease some of its tight social strictures in a modernization drive at the same time as a crackdown on dissent.

Music was banned in public places until 2017, a measure enforced by the religious police, and women were only allowed to drive a year later. Beaches are still usually segregated between men and women.

The country is experiencing change under the crown prince and de facto ruler, Mohammed bin Salman, who came to power in 2017.
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You are strongly advised to keep up to date with entry requirement guidelines and pre-travel procedures for Saudi Arabia.

Travel restrictions for passengers coming from Brazil, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Lebanon, Pakistan, Turkey, Ethiopia, Afghanistan and Vietnam and NEWCASTLE (not Bolton!)
Vaccines currently recognised by Saudi Arabia are;
2 doses of Pfizer BioNTech
2 doses of Oxford AstraZeneca, or having drank 3 bottles of Newcastle Brown

[Balanbam00]

Saudi Arabia : What's new?

https://www.neom.com/en-us

NEOM is a bold and audacious dream. It’s a vision of what a New Future might look like (in fact, NEOM means, “new future”). It’s an attempt to do something that’s never been done before and it’s coming at a time when the world needs fresh thinking and new solutions. Simply put, NEOM will be a destination, a home for people who dream big and want to be part of building a new model for sustainable
living, working and prospering.

[sinkov]

If you can get away with chopping a journalist to bits and putting him through the mincing machine,

Stop making stuff up BT, there is no evidence whatsoever that he was put through a mincing machine.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

It's rumoured the mince may have turned up in the human food chain and Booths in Clitheroe are the likeliest vendor.

Watch out if Mrs S puts an Arabian themed Cottage Pie on the table at an upcoming teatime.

[sinkov]

It's rumoured the mince may have turned up in the human food chain and Booths in Clitheroe are the likeliest vendor.

Watch out if Mrs S puts an Arabian themed Cottage Pie on the table at an upcoming teatime.

Never buy pies at Booths BT, only Roy Porter's at Chatburn, purveyor of fine pies, only journos minced in the Ribble Valley in their pies, none of your foreign muck.

[sinkov]

Cracking piece in today's Mail by Martin Samuel, pointing out the real hypocrisy over the Newcastle Saudi deal, like he says the Saudis bought into Sheffield United and not a peep from anyone, but they're not a threat to the big six, so that didn't matter, Kick It Out get it in the neck for their hypocrisy as well, getting uppity about some Geordies with tea towels on their heads, while accepting money from the PL who have sanctioned the deal, they could always refuse that tainted money, but of course they don't.

He mentions the 2017 Manchester United strategic partnership with Saudi government backed General Sports Authority, and a statement by Managing Director Richard Arnold, still on the United website, "The club has a long standing relationship with Saudi Arabia and has over 5 million fans in the region", fine for United to use the Saudis as a revenue stream, but not apparently Newcastle.

As I've said before, and as Martin Samuel has picked up on as well, the stench of hypocrisy hanging around this deal is overpowering, but it's not coming from Amanda Staveley, Newcastle United or their fans.

[Supersub6]

Cracking piece in today's Mail by Martin Samuel, pointing out the real hypocrisy over the Newcastle Saudi deal, like he says the Saudis bought into Sheffield United and not a peep from anyone, but they're not a threat to the big six, so that didn't matter, Kick It Out get it in the neck for their hypocrisy as well, getting uppity about some Geordies with tea towels on their heads, while accepting money from the PL who have sanctioned the deal, they could always refuse that tainted money, but of course they don't.

He mentions the 2017 Manchester United strategic partnership with Saudi government backed General Sports Authority, and a statement by Managing Director Richard Arnold, still on the United website, "The club has a long standing relationship with Saudi Arabia and has over 5 million fans in the region", fine for United to use the Saudis as a revenue stream, but not apparently Newcastle.

As I've said before, and as Martin Samuel has picked up on as well, the stench of hypocrisy hanging around this deal is overpowering, but it's not coming from Amanda Staveley, Newcastle United or their fans.

Let's be honest about it, sinkov, the game is corrupt and is administered by people who just want to make as much money out of it that they can. How did the World Cup get allocated to Qatar? I wonder, it couldn't have any connection to money --could it?