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Any Newcastle player heard saying that gay people should be locked up - would be banned for 6+ games .
yet the premier league have sold Newcastle to the person responsible for implementing and enforcing the jailing of gay people - the assassination of a journalist - and the denial of basic human rights to women
we have to keep spreading the word of just what the Saudis and Newcastle stand for .
And the NUFC lgbtq group welcomed them 😂😂. They’re officially the worst gay activists in the world
 
To be fair I think the fans are being mentioned as one because there has been almost no dissenting voices. If there were a few daft lads with tea towels on their head celebrating, but also a supporters Trust and an LGBTQ group talking about their serious misgivings, if a good percentage of fans on social media were expressing their dissatisfaction with the Saudis being in charge of their club, then they'd maybe have to be careful to say which group of fans they mean. As it is, there's been at best silence from some, and celebration /defending the regime from the rest. Until some mags really come out against it, they'll be lumped together as all accepting it
To be fair, there have been condemnations of the Saudi regime in True Faith and even within the LGBT statement. Maybe not enough, maybe not as aggressive, but they're there.

I agree the Trust should have had some balls and, in their open letter to the new owners asked for a conversation about the concerns that many of their members have.

Re: your last statement, it's not really fair to lump an entire fanbase in one camp simply because you feel there are insufficient dissenting voices. Be like saying All Man City fans are supportive of UAE because there aren't enough dissenting voices.
 
Useful idiots was a term coined by the KGB for people like Michael Foot & Jack Jones during the cold war
Surperb analogy in this case.
Strange that supporters can feel such moral outrage when the stadium renamed after a pay day loan company but celebrate when its taken over by one of the cruelest, most evil governments on the planet
Canny bit of whataboutery there.
 
To be fair, there have been condemnations of the Saudi regime in True Faith and even within the LGBT statement. Maybe not enough, maybe not as aggressive, but they're there.

I agree the Trust should have had some balls and, in their open letter to the new owners asked for a conversation about the concerns that many of their members have.

Re: your last statement, it's not really fair to lump an entire fanbase in one camp simply because you feel there are insufficient dissenting voices. Be like saying All Man City fans are supportive of UAE because there aren't enough dissenting voices.
How many voices, in some way, are defending their owners? This is the difference, it's the level at which some of the Mags are getting so defensive about it all and I can't think of any other club that goes to the levels the Mags do.

Have you realised which stand is which yet anarl? It was the to the right of the Middle East stand I posted ;)
 
But is it swings and roundabouts? How did you expect other (non-Newcastle supporting) folk to react when the first and most obvious demonstration of the takeover news on Tyneside was a mass gathering at SJP of tea-towel/bedsheet wearing, lager-swilling f***ing numpties celebrating becoming the richest club in the world (allegedly). If it was a celebration of the removal of MA then fine, but it wasn't was it, not in a million years. Every one of those people outside SJP never for one moment considered the implications of the takeover and the people behind it. If they had and realised who they were even tacitly condoning they wouldn't have done it. If they DID consider it and simply thought "nah fuck it, I'm on the lash" (pun intended) then they deserve everything that's came their way. The savaging of the rest of your support, and by extension the club, is the unintended consequence of that. It was both gormless and classless.
See, that's a mischaracterisation. You could count on one hand the number of daft lads in headscarves/bedsheets.

All but a tiny minority, when asked, were celebrating a) the departure of Ashley and b ) suddenly becoming the richest team on the planet.

You say it yourself, they weren't even thinking about the Saudis for who they are.

There were plenty of gormless and classless people inthe crowd, but it wasn't a night at the opera, it was a football crowd. That's not where I expect to find an abundance of class... or Gorm.
 
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