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NUFC/Sportswashing - Summer 2022

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Cannonfodder said:
Why is this site so obsessed with players linked with then lot up the road. Who gives a jot we are sunderland
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You posted mate :lol:
JL1985 said:
He’ll be a good signing. Not top class but still decent.
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Sportswashing tactic is obviously to target as many England internationals as possible. Its exactly what you would do if that was the aim.
 
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Redandwhitedust said:
Not at Newcastle. But at every other club yes.

Leicester fans have had very recent mega success, enjoyed it and while they'll be disappointed that they've not repeated it, they don't protest, petition etc.

Palace. Well run stable premier league club fans seem content to support them.

Brighton, West Ham, Wolves etc....

Basically outside of the Big 6, the vast majority of PL fans are quite content to support their club and live in hope of better over their lifetime.

Not at Newcastle. Because nearly a quarter of a century ago they threw away a title and they get a good crowd.
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Not sure i would include West Ham in the list of happy fans. Only a couple of years since they were protesting, delaying game with fans on pitch etc.
 
Homer said:
There’s definitely a Sunni mosque in Shields. It’s the Iranian backed Shia forces who have been the target. I wouldn’t suggest I could speak for them but maybe they no longer view it as their country or perhaps they hold a view that the Houthi forces are the enemy. It would take a very simplistic view of the conflict to blanket them all with one view.
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This article doesn’t equate to a full poll, but it suggests a significant number of Shields residents with links to Yemen are against it. They might have been more vocal, but some were intimidated into silence by the mag supporters:


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Yemeni fans caught in crosshairs​

The takeover has been a particularly hot topic in South Shields, a coastal town less than 10 miles away from Newcastle’s city centre. While many fans were
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by the bid collapse, others like Robbie Parkin held a different opinion.

“I’m really pleased the Saudis pulled out. When a power like that takes over, you sign a deal with the devil,” Parkin, a third generation Yemeni, told MEE.

“I haven’t really spoken to anybody who was really for the deal. Every person I spoke to, white, Yemeni or whatever, no one supported it on the shop floor,” he said.

The 54-year-old, who is now a researcher and lecturer, said that many of the town’s Muslims opposed the Saudi bid to own Newcastle United.

“I’ve spoken to friends in the Muslim and Yemeni community, and they were quite appalled at the thought of the consortium taking over Newcastle. I certainly think it would've been very negative for Tyneside’s Muslims,” Hussein said.


MEE were in contact with other Yemenis from South Shields who had similar concerns about the takeover, but did not want to speak publicly due to fear of a backlash from local football fans.
 
Skellington said:
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If that’s true then I can’t see the mags being able to match that - seems more likely to end up at Everton
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Which, from the advice offered by many on here, is a good thing. Buying players from relegated clubs is a 'no-no'.
 
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