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NUFC and other Sportswashing Spring 2022

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🤣🤣🤣🤣 what a sad Mag knacker this bloke is. Probably crayoned this whilst wearing his Blue Star shirt, grey fleece pants & Adidas brown ale trainers. The scruffy sportswashed terrorist apologist.
 
BigPete said:
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I didn't mean it like that as you well know. Ultimately, the money and corruption in the game, its supporters that lose long term. Ticket prices, owners that don't care, owners running clubs into the ground, owners who are chancers looking to earn a quick pound (as you lot know all too well) or owners using a club as a sportswashing vehicle.

This is modern football. Fans at the whim of owners.
 
Sabre Mag said:
And I think that's probably how I view it. Newcastle are the latest victim of a disease that probably crept into football when Abramovic bought Chelsea.

I have said before, the whole rotten lot can crash down for me to be honest. The money in football is scandalous.
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Aye, it's definitely gone too far down the nasty greedy route.

The way I see it is very simple. We can go on the crest of a wave for a period of time or we can struggle along.
We are more than used to the good bad and indifference this club brings so it's a case of jumping on that ride and taking the rough and the smooth of it, with some actual hope of better instead of standing still.
 
Nukehasslefan said:
And you're very welcome to that thought.
It has absolutely no bearing on my love for it but there you go.
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Your owners are the worst of humanity congratulations
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🤣🤣🤣🤣 what a sad Mag knacker this bloke is. Probably crayoned this whilst wearing his Blue Star shirt, grey fleece pants & Adidas brown ale trainers. The scruffy sportswashed terrorist apologist.
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That bazook bloke worries more about what Sunderland fans think than anything else in his life. Imagine writing article after article about Sunderland in a mag fanzine man 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. The blokes tragic as fuck
 
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Nukehasslefan said:
Aye, it's definitely gone too far down the nasty greedy route.

The way I see it is very simple. We can go on the crest of a wave for a period of time or we can struggle along.
We are more than used to the good bad and indifference this club brings so it's a case of jumping on that ride and taking the rough and the smooth of it, with some actual hope of better instead of standing still.
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F#ck the dying kids in Yemen then!
 
sofatester said:
Your owners are the worst of humanity congratulations

That bazook bloke worries more about what Sunderland fans think than anything else in his life. Imagine writing article after article about Sunderland in a mag fanzine man 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. The blokes tragic as fuck
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Trying to convince himself that people have moved on from the Sportswashing. On a par with the Eton Mess thinking people have moved on from him being a criminal pathological liar
 
I think "football already sold its soul" is the most reasonable argument a Newcastle can make. However, the vast majority of their fanbase have decided to completely double-down on the Saudi love.

The other part of that is that they're all convincing themselves that something special or different is happening at the club, when in reality it really isn't so far. They've generally made some sensible appointments and signings, but it's nothing different to what average mid-table clubs in the PL have been doing for years. There's absolutely no reason to be jealous of them being slightly higher up in the mid-table, which is where they have been as a club, more-or-less, for about 50 years. We're used to it. :lol:
 
Nukehasslefan said:
Well, it's like this. Football has been sold to the devil long before Newcastle's owners came on board.

That's fair enough because it's all about opinions and it would be boring if opinions had to follow one line of thought, so fair play.
I can actually see your side to it as well but I simply offer the man a little bit of leeway in some parts.
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Yet with all that has happened in the past I genuinely don't think there's a greater example of a club selling its soul than a once proud traditional NE club being a flimsy cover for what is one of the most barbaric nation states on earth.

Get excited about splashing the cash whilst burying your head in the sand about what you "club" now is.
 
jlaws said:
Just my opinion but I think they see the golf as investment. If they throw enough cash at it now they can break the stranglehold of the US PGA.

Whereas football, at the top level, is essentially a plaything with no return other than whitening the image. But that being said they have a huge room for manoeuvre with FFP but they aren't using it.
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Golf is investment. NUFC is sportwashing. Now tell me again which of us is the deluded idiot.
 
jlaws said:
Bazook - the Human Rights issue will never disappear. It may quieten down for a bit but it will never be far away from rising to the surface. Essentially you have a young country (just c90 years old in its modern form) which if it were not for the Saud family and the huge oil wealth would be as volatile as Iraq/Iran/Syria/Libya etc. It is finding its feet in the modern world and it will face significant tensions to keep its now connected people happy (24.7% are aged 0-14) whilst holding its traditional "beliefs". Inevitably this will lead to brutality and the light will shine once again on NUFC. There is literally no escape from it. You have got into bed with the country equivalent of the Bunny Boiler in Fatal Attraction.
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Glenn Close or Fat Mike? Give me the bunny boiler any day
 
Nukehasslefan said:
To be fair it's not really about £60 million being nothing, it's about not making big mistakes like many clubs have done with Everton being a massive example of diving in to play at the top and paying a heavy price (and nearly heavier) for that.

Well, let's be totally honest.
The stadium holds £52,000 and a few hundred. The population of Newcastle and surrounding areas, not to mention the worldwide fans. Not all are going to go to every game and many will likely never get to go to many games if any.
Having said that, it still entitles those who don't go for whatever reasons...a voice.

You do not have to be able to sit inside the stadium to be a fan and supporter.
This applies to all clubs.
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Are you saying NUFC have fans all around the globe?
 
Biffo The Bear said:
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Golf is investment. NUFC is sportwashing. Now tell me again which of us is the deluded idiot.
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I never called you a deluded idiot?

The statement is correct.

The barriers to entry to Golf are essentially the US PGA - they could, with huge prize money, completely disrupt golf as we know it.

In contrast, as evidenced by Chelsea losing 900k p/w you can throw as much as you want at football but you won't make a return. The caveat is that if they spend sensibly, establish the club in top half, then they could make a return..... but will the owner, who is not the owner, be happy with that?

I await your apology.
 
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