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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    Do you know the term "Logical Fallacy"?
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    I'm not going to bother repeating myself. Just look back through my posts and you'll see my position has been made pretty clear.
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    Makes total sense for other clubs to raise their prices for us. I don't have a problem with that. It's because of the perception that we're going to splash the cash, and/or because they don't want to strengthen a rival. That's why Leicester were demanding £60m for Maddison. Along a similar vein...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    The thing is, some of us were protesting as it appeared that the authorities were obfuscating the reason for the delay in the takeover going through. They still haven't been honest about the reason for the delay. It wasn't about anything but broadcast piracy. It wasn't separation of PIF and KSA...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    It's not that I want a top 4 club over everything, it's that, for 14 years I saw my club dissolve into a shadow of it's former self. I mean, away from the performances on the pitch. There was no fan/club relationship by the end. Thousands had walked away. re: the outrage it's fair to say we...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    And yet the Glazers still own Manchester United, they still run the club the way they want to, and FCUM still only play in the Northern Premier League, pulling gates of under 2k. So walking away; wouldn't change ownership, wouldn't change the owners approach, would hugely diminish the standard...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    100% it wouldn't. Neither would a 1,000 strong boycott, or a march, or anything else really. To enforce actual change in that regime would take action by international powers. Not the crowd at a parochial English football club. That's my point. The Saudis are a vile regime who shouldn't own...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    You're misrepresenting what I said.
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    And everyone involved in that should be punished to fullest extent of the law. I won't defend them, they shouldn't own a football club.
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    That's not a fair representation of what I was saying.
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    Can't we be both? Newcastle United have recruited well, shown ambition, made sensible appointments, without breaking FFP rules, or spending more than a midtable club of our 'size' normally would. That's what a football club should do. That's what Brighton do. That we're propped up by a barbaric...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    Did you? Not saying this to be ornery, but I didn't notice any. I'm sure there were a handful, but definitely not loads. The people behind Wor Flags could do with putting a few more... provocative(?) banners, but it worth remembering, that this is all very new to us.
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    I didn't say where the boat was ;) No, I take your point, and I don't expect any sympathy from opposition fans when discussing Mike Ashley. From the outside he appeared fine, we were in the PL for all but 2 years, we bought some good players, we were finishing around mid table etc. etc. But...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    I thought the protests were proportionate. We did the banners, the boycotts, ditching tickets all that stuff. But short of an empty stadium for several games, I'm not sure what else we could have done. re: sports washing. Does it work? Like, do you think UAE are a modern, pluralist, liberal...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    I remember having similar thoughts when Man City were bought by Sheikh Mansour, in the very nascence of sportswashing in the PL. "How can they tolerate this? Why are they wearing tea towels on their heads?" Unfortunately, it's the nature of modern football. Everything is for sale. And when...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    The relationship between the players, the staff, and the fans is what the club is. Right now, that relationship is better than it's been in decades.
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    We protested, walked out, engaged in media campaigns and all that. Did that for over a decade and Ashley wasn't going anywhere. Yeah, it's complicated. Where do we draw the line? boycott our own club? should opposition fans boycott St James'? Do we protest the Premier League and FA for allowing...
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    [Football] Saudi consortium to take over Newcastle

    Saudi regime is awful. I'm not walking away from my club. I was here before them, I'll be here long after they're gone. I can see that it may seem a straightforward choice from the outside, but honestly me and my mates have had long tortuous conversations about it. Some have indeed walked...
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    [Albion] Brighton & Hove Albion vs Newcastle United *** Official Match Thread ***

    For what it's worth I'm very pleased with a point. We weren't at the races at all, the midfield which has become quite reliable seemed way off the standard and Wilson barely had a sniff. I get what Shearer was saying about the Wilson chance and I don't think it was particularly dangerous given...
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    [Albion] Eddie Howe and Newcastle

    Match of the Day wasn't indicative of our dominance. I get it, they don't have time to even show extended highlights, but I wouldn't take their highlights as any kind of good representation of the game. But it was Forest. We battered them and it could have been 3 or 4-0 in the first half alone...

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