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NUFC/Sportwashing

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mag in peace said:
You are a massive Tory and a royalist. You have watched both Boris and The Queen meet the prince and deal with him. Don't start acting like you give a shit.
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It's irrelevant what I am. Stop trying to divert away from the crystal clear point that you and your fan base are absolute hypocrites. Thick as fuck.
 

mag in peace said:
Our club has always supported all of the above issues and will continue to. We weren't the ones resoundingly booing the knee. As a fan base, I can assure you that if the levels of tolerance we promote start to slip, we will be vocal about it.
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So we can expect to see all of the above in significant numbers at their first home match can we? A very clear and visible protest?

The knee thing isn’t quite the slam dunk you think it is. The vast majority of supporters on here completely condemned the booing and the vast majority applauded it in the ground. Newcastle also have not always supporters such causes either. Let’s not get revisionist about that.
 
Sea to Shining Sea said:
So we can expect to see all of the above in significant numbers at their first home match can we? A very clear and visible protest?

The knee thing isn’t quite the slam dunk you think it is. The vast majority of supporters on here completely condemned the booing and the vast majority applauded it in the ground. Newcastle also have not always supporters such causes either. Let’s not get revisionist about that.
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How many clubs show all of the above every single match? It's absurd to suggest we will. We will continue to support those causes as we always have.
 
Frankel said:
Do you object to it now?

Why aren’t you and the other lads and lasses who oppose it up at SJP? Or on a high street? Or travelling down to London on a bus to speak to Masters?

There was little chance of influencing Mike Ashley to sell up but there was still bulbheeds shouting at shops.

The hypocrisy is astounding.
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The Saudi state cannot tolerate dissent - they’ve made that perfectly clear.

They wouldn’t pour money into a project that became a focal point for criticism of them.

A sports washing project is hardly going to work if there’s mass protests drawing attention to the country’s failings. It’s not solely about the bottom line the way it is with eg the Glazers. If image is important then that is something fans can affect and they actually have quite a bit of leverage.

If the fans came out against the Saudis the way they protested against Pardew for giving them the best spell of the last 15 years, then the sportswashing project would fail and the Saudis would be out of there pretty sharpish.

Look at how Bayern fans protest against Qatar being involved with their club, and then look at the mags with the Saudis - two different breeds.
 
It was always going to happen at some point because there is money to be made.

I hope I can send an expense claim to Mike Ashley to change my number plate. No longer FTM....
 
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