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NUFC/Sportswashing - Summer 2022

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Skellington said:
This was awful from Louise Taylor a few weeks back. Pure Saudi propaganda. I’d guess journalists like her work out which way the wind is blowing rather than actually get fed their lines, but it amounts to the same thing in the end:

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Staveley now has time to concentrate on wider initiatives, including turning Newcastle’s women’s team professional.

Despite residing in the fourth tier, Becky Langley’s side appear on a one-way journey to the Women’s Super League.

Their debut appearance, in front of 22,000, at St James’ Park last May was widely publicised in Saudi Arabia, surprising those already taken aback at seeing Staveley handed such a high-profile role by overlords in a country hardly known for female emancipation.

Such unexpected promotion of women’s right can either be seen as genuine attempts at Saudi modernisation or, along with those regeneration projects, a clever and subtle form of sportswashing designed to soften the Kingdom’s image abroad. Maybe it’s both, but at least Gary Neville’s fears about English football’s growing north-south divide should diminish.

In 2015 the former England full-back turned TV analystwarned of Newcastle being “cut adrift” by the game’s “wider economic drift towards London”, musing: “Does any top player want to go and live in the north-east?”

Given Botman chose Tyneside over Milan and Guimarães claims Newcastle possess more potential than Arsenal, it seems the Premier League’s most contentious owners are already achieving a form of levelling up politicians can only dream of.


MP for South Shields here. Awful stuff that shouldn’t be forgotten:

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MEE asked the South Shields MP what her message was to Yemeni and Muslims constituents who had spoken out against Saudi involvement in their football club. She was unavailable for comment.

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Surprisingly pro Saudi article from The Guardian

Sportswashing mentioned but buried beneath references to women’s emancipation, women’s right (sic) and a not so subtle hint that Saudis buying the club equals “levelling up” of the entire North East

Whatever they say, NE reporters want to keep their jobs above all else
 

xVJ said:
Is that the default reply when you're wrong? As said before, learn what the word actually means before you try and use it.


If you're bothered about where she got the figure 600m and 10,000 jobs here's an
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which makes reference to these, which appear to have been originally made by the Reuben Brother's. So not quite made-up by her.

However, if you continue to feel aggravated by her comments, I'd recommend writing to her office and expressing your view and/or don't vote for her.
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No its not the default reply. It is what you actually have become.
 
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