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NUFC Sportswashing 2022

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BigPete said:
@Mackemmichael you are fooling no one..
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I'm just not going to respond now. I'll apologise if I've said anything in the past which even remotely gives you the impression that I'm not a Sunderland supporter (which I couldn't have) and just move on and engage with others.

This place is an absolute echo chamber at times. I appreciate there seems to be a proportion of sad mags on here pretending to be lads (God knows why?!) and that you have cause in your suspicious approach, but I won't stop posting in a forum that's for Sunderland fans because of your misguided opinion.
 
Had an interview for a job yesterday, the fella doing the interview was a West Ham supporter, we had a bit of general crack at the end of the interview and when he found out I supported Sunderland he said I know you don’t like Newcastle but you’ve got to feel sorry for them, they’ve lost their club to some dodgy people, I said not really they begged for it, he laughed and said fair point, Fuck them. Cool story I know
 
Dilligaf60 said:
He’s not wrong.

You know it mate. Him Boris and MBS will decide what is in the best interests of NUF…….sorry football.
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They're getting criticised from all quarters...they know it and hate it in equal measure!!...obviously they'll go all siege mentality now...the corrupted are easily led...they have to wrestle with the uncomfortable truth...but its "we cant help who owns our club"..they could when poor Mike Ashley was at the helm.
They protested..shouted at shops..a jarrow style march down to London parliament...banging on premier league HQ windows because they didn't get what they wanted like spoilt children throwing toys out the pram.!!
And now thier disgusting overlords are in charge...but all we hear..and this is comical btw....Ashley was a tyrant!!...my goodness thier moral compass is off the map!....Absolute corruption corrupts absolutely!!!
 
Rokerparkpies said:
They're getting criticised from all quarters...they know it and hate it in equal measure!!...obviously they'll go all siege mentality now...the corrupted are easily led...they have to wrestle with the uncomfortable truth...but its "we cant help who owns our club"..they could when poor Mike Ashley was at the helm.
They protested..shouted at shops..a jarrow style march down to London parliament...banging on premier league HQ windows because they didn't get what they wanted like spoilt children throwing toys out the pram.!!
And now thier disgusting overlords are in charge...but all we hear..and this is comical btw....Ashley was a tyrant!!...my goodness thier moral compass is off the map!....Absolute corruption corrupts absolutely!!!
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I don’t think they are getting enough criticism to be honest, a lot seem to be turning a blind eye, especially the media
 
Rokerparkpies said:
They're getting criticised from all quarters...they know it and hate it in equal measure!!...obviously they'll go all siege mentality now...the corrupted are easily led...they have to wrestle with the uncomfortable truth...but its "we cant help who owns our club"..they could when poor Mike Ashley was at the helm.
They protested..shouted at shops..a jarrow style march down to London parliament...banging on premier league HQ windows because they didn't get what they wanted like spoilt children throwing toys out the pram.!!
And now thier disgusting overlords are in charge...but all we hear..and this is comical btw....Ashley was a tyrant!!...my goodness thier moral compass is off the map!....Absolute corruption corrupts absolutely!!!
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They got what they wanted. They’ll have to learn to live with it.
johnny kayo said:
I don’t think they are getting enough criticism to be honest, a lot seem to be turning a blind eye, especially the media
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No they aren’t. Nowhere near.
 
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Mackemmichael said:
I'm just not going to respond now. I'll apologise if I've said anything in the past which even remotely gives you the impression that I'm not a Sunderland supporter (which I couldn't have) and just move on and engage with others.

This place is an absolute echo chamber at times. I appreciate there seems to be a proportion of sad mags on here pretending to be lads (God knows why?!) and that you have cause in your suspicious approach, but I won't stop posting in a forum that's for Sunderland fans because of your misguided opinion.
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North Yorks Mackem said:
And no it doesn't work both ways in this instance I'm afraid. As human beings we should all care about human rights abuses and most of us do. It doesn't mean that we have to commit to joining amnesty.

In your instance we can acknowledge and state it was a farce that you were allowed to be bought by one of the worlds most despotic nation states.

Of course, you can understand why it's exciting, but a simple look on twitter shows the lengths and aggression your support shows defending your owners (the saudi regime). You've been sportswashed on a giant scale through the lure of trophies.

Your suport wants the riches but is almost demanding you're treated as a normal club. You"re not a normal club. You're now a flimsy cover for the saudi stare. Own what you now represent instead of trying to constantly deflect.
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Great post
 
Am reading Harry Pearson's book "The Farther Corner" on North East football. Published in 2020, so it will have been written before anyone heard of Saudi Arabia buying the mags. It includes this passage:

"It was true that the protests against the Ashley regime had been going on for a long time, or hadn't. Part of the problem was that there were so many different anti-owner groups. There was Magpie Group, NUFC360, If Rafa Goes We Go, Ashley Out, Mike Ashley Out, the Newcastle Supporters Group, the Newcastle Independent Supporters Group.... It all had a Life of Brian quality about it.

There was nothing new about fan protests at St James' Park either. I started going to St James' Park with my friend Steve when Gordon McKeag was running things. Back then the chants of 'Sack the Board' were to the Gallowgate End what Hail Marys are to St Peter's - it was an act of both faith and atonement. Much has changed at St James' in the thirty years since then, but the relationship between Newcastle supporters and the club's owners has remained more or less constant throughout."


It just isn't true that "any group of supporters would have reacted the same way to the takeover". No other fans go on the way they do. Only the mags would have done the petitions and tantrums pretending to have their mental health ruined to the extent that they did.
 
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