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Professor Yaffle said:
I should have been clearer in my response, apologies for that. I mean sport right across the board. Grand Prix in Saudi, world championship boxing featuring our own Anthony Joshua, and in football the Saudi regime being feted by Liverpool FC in 2017 when they signed a kit deal with New Balance, Liverpool's kit supplier. The Saudi Royal family were guests of Liverpool and signed the deal in the Anfield boardroom. I can find a link if you can't find it, but a simple Google search ought to bring it up. I'll repeat again, lest this turn into a pissing contest: I will not be putting a single penny into the club while KSA are involved. I'm done with Newcastle apart from wanting them to win every time they step on a pitch. It's impossible to change that desire, and I won't try to, but my time actually supporting them is over. Has been for a while in truth, but this has cemented it. The people excusing the behaviour of KSA just because they invested in a football club they support are f***ing shameful. Likewise the people using it as a stick to beat Newcastle supporters with are, for the most part, opportunists. Do you reckon those Palace fans with the banner give two hoots about what goes on in KSA? Or the Chelsea supporters, Chelsea ffs, with their history of racism going back god knows how long. As I say, I expect it from Sunderland, our nearest rivals, but not from arseholes from Palace and Chelsea
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Fair enough, and thank you for a considered reply. Firstly, let me say that I applaud your decision re: not providing any support for NUFC because of this. I agree that sport as a whole should be doing a whole lot more to address sportswashing in general, and particular owners and sponsors individually, and I appreciate that a certain amount of 'whataboutery' is to be expected from those of a black and white persuasion, after all it's your club, not theirs, the same is SAFC is our club and not KLDs.

The moot point is that the PL appear to have bent over backwards to accommodate this purchase - probably under pressure from HMG - to allow what we all know is the KSA to purchase NUFC. Putting human rights abuses to one side for one minute, this is as corrupt a deal as you could possibly imagine and that is central to the argument about PIF/NUFC. Which is why, I suspect, the PL are now in a state of panic and denial and are pretty much being held to ransom by the other 19 clubs to prevent NUFC from flexing their financial muscle via sponsorship limitations etc. etc. It's a sop to CFC/MUFC/MCFC/LFC/AFC to ensure the gravy at the top table remains pretty much equally distributed - for those clubs at least. If the PL have unequivocal proof that PIF is a completely separate entity from the KSA (MBS) let them publish it, perhaps then the pressure may ease on NUFC.

Once you add in the undeniable disgrace of the behaviour of NUFCs ostensible owners in relation to human rights, LGBT+ rights etc. etc. is quite understandable that many, many football fans across the UK and beyond take great pleasure in trying to bring them down. Expecting anything else is sheer niavety. Great fun for SAFC fans also, it must be said, but the fundamental principle stands NUFC are just a sportswashing tool and the soul of the club, if not completely lost has been tarnished beyond repair.
 
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