NUFC/Sportwashing

[BIG MAL]

How would the mags take it if the saudis changed thier name to Saudi Arabia Football Club

Or changed their nickname... the Camels.

 

[Thatheaderman]

My attempt at humour mate,the initials SAFC, Ill get me coat

Bloody hell. I didn't even spot it.

Bed time ha.

 

[Bears Beets]

But but but Paolo Di Canio

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The chickentown stuff relates to this

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Cooper-Clarke said it started as an exercise to try to write a poem in which every other word was a swearword. It was intended as a commentary on the monotony and futility of modern life.

So it’s taken a Sunderland fan to point out something most people will have never heard of before. More top class mag humour.

 

[gipetto]

911 was perpetrated by terrorists mate- not the Saudi sovereign wealth fund

Most Newcastle fans will be less than happy that it's the house of Saud buying us out- but there's nowt that can be done about it so well get on with supporting our team .

Did Sunderland fans kick up a stink when a confirmed facist who celebrated the funeral of a rw killer ( a terrorist involved in an atrocity in Bologna that killed 80 people ) ... was made their manager in 2013 ?

....One or two did maybe

But the vast majority thought fuck it - let's get right behind him ....

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Did you when Di Canio was playing for West Ham? Your comparison to Di Canio becoming our manager is way off. You're embarrassing yourself.

 

[ilovehorswill]

I still recall SAFC fans getting Kennedy ran out of his SAFC job with the Echo instantly. Quite right as well.

Joy Yates the Editor tried to brazen it out by getting him to issue an embarrassing apology which led to articles in the Press Gazette and Guardian

A good day for Pure Football

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[I'm Spartacus]

I've been going through to watch Sunderland for 45 years. In all those years I've never heard Saudi human rights issues being debated in the pub before or after the match which would indicate that, up until now, it's never been a pressing issue for us to even stir up a debate. The best you could manage using the search function on here was a piddling 3 page thread from last year when the Saudis were first linked to them. Nothing before that.

They money they have is what bothers me the most. In saying that it doesn't guarantee them anything and we can only hope it isn't spent wisely. I'm more concerned with the direction we are going in, which at the moment is the right one at last.

It’s a topical subject. Oh and forgive me if I’m wrong but if you’re a genuine safc fan and not a head lopping loving mag, I’ll gladly start a crowd funding thing to reopen binns and show my arse in the window.

 

[Redandwhitedust]

Or changed their nickname... the Camels.

They wouldn't care if St. James Park became the "Saudia Airways Soccerdome".

As long as they think they're significant.

 

[Biffo The Bear]

The Mags, on this forum, have had a pretty easy time of it albeit with the expected banter, etc.

Now is the time, however, for you to make your position on this clear. There can't be any clouding of the issue or provarication, you're either beind this new regime or you're not.

If you're behind it then you need to show some grit and say so, cowardly hiding behind ifs and buts won't wash.

In that way you either stand up for your beliefs and take what's coming to you or absolve yourself of blame by association. It's not enough to say that you're just football fans and it's nothing to do with you.

So what is it lads, I'd like to know who, and what, I'm talking to.

I stated over the weekend that i was excited by the prospect of the club winning something. I still am.
I stated that, whether i support the takeover or not, there is nowt i can do about it. I still feel this way.
Will i go to the games, when home in the UK?....... on balance i have come to the conclusion that i will not attend. Will probably join @Sandboy in watching CLS instead.

 

[Old Money]

I stated that, whether i support the takeover or not, there is nowt i can do about it. I still feel this way.

This statement is why all and sundry just shake their heads at the vacuous bleatings of black and white sheep. The very same people stating "nowt we can do" are the same idiots that have been moaning and groaning, punching horses, shouting at shops etc etc because their owner would not bend over to their wants.
You all need to just sit in the corner now with hands over eyes / ears / mouth's because you have actually made yourselves irrelevant.

 

[Biffo The Bear]

This statement is why all and sundry just shake their heads at the vacuous bleatings of black and white sheep. The very same people stating "nowt we can do" are the same idiots that have been moaning and groaning, punching horses, shouting at shops etc etc because their owner would not bend over to their wants.
You all need to just sit in the corner now with hands over eyes / ears / mouth's because you have actually made yourselves irrelevant.

Not guilty.

 

[Mr Clarko]

Look at all of the human rights activists all of a sudden...

 

[Nukehasslefan]

That’s not morals like
That’s just choosing what suits you at a time.

Hence the subjective.

The north east being Newcastle as it always has been.

For some reason, when it comes to Sunderland thriving in some way, your lot can’t stand to see it and do their best to belittle it.

So just like that, any investment in the region will trickle into Sunderland pockets after years and decades of you lot trying to stop it?

Bollocks.

I'd love to see all the north east do well. have no ill will against anyone on the whole but especially north east people.
I wasn't born in Newcastle I was born in Hartlepool. I just so happen to have been a Newcastle fan just about all of my life (near 50 years) and there's no such thing as my lot.

Would it make them have second thoughts? Probably not. They've decided they want a sportswashing vehicle and they've decided that you're it, I agree with you on that one. What it would do, however, is show that hundreds /thousands (however many turn up) of Newcastle fans want to keep attending games but don't want their club associated with this regime.

It might happen, and if it does then fair play to those fans. I wouldn't expect people to stop going. Personally I wouldn't stop going either. But at least stand up and show that you, as a city and a fan base, are better than that. It might happen, but judging by the reaction thus far it won't

I'd hazard a guess that most fans of most, if not all clubs would offer little resistance to new owners who look like they're ready to bankroll their club, especially after a regime that was generally disliked beforehand.

I would hazard a guess that some people, fans included, of all clubs, would offer resistance to this regime but the majority will avoid the politics and get on with being a fan of the football and what is on offer on that basis.

You know you'll never talk anyone round on here, why not try and change things on mag forum.

I'm not after talking anyone round.
Why would I need to do that?
I have nothing to apologise for and certainly in no need of assurances.
I'm merely giving my opinion and answering questions. That's it.

The fact I'm on a Sunderland forum is purely based on my seeing the forum as a great place for banter and a well ran forum with lot of different takes on lots of stuff.
If you think I'm under any illusions about being disliked by the majority of fans on here for being a Newcastle fan, I'm not but then again I have no issue with Sunderland fans or any other fan who posts, based on their allegiance to a club.

It's all about opinions and forum chat. That's it.

 

[Lionel Ritchie Perez]

Those stinking Geordies and the Arabs are a match made in heaven, a country that stones people to death and is just awful, and the sweaty horrible Geordies. And they keep saying the Saudi's have lots of money... Then how come they only bought 80% of the club and not 100%??? And how come they've had to borrow money? It will all end in tears. Fact.

 

[The Rolls Royce]

Hence the subjective.

I'd love to see all the north east do well. have no ill will against anyone on the whole but especially north east people.
I wasn't born in Newcastle I was born in Hartlepool. I just so happen to have been a Newcastle fan just about all of my life (near 50 years) and there's no such thing as my lot.

I'd hazard a guess that most fans of most, if not all clubs would offer little resistance to new owners who look like they're ready to bankroll their club, especially after a regime that was generally disliked beforehand.

I would hazard a guess that some people, fans included, of all clubs, would offer resistance to this regime but the majority will avoid the politics and get on with being a fan of the football and what is on offer on that basis.

I'm not after talking anyone round.
Why would I need to do that?
I have nothing to apologise for and certainly in no need of assurances.
I'm merely giving my opinion and answering questions. That's it.

The fact I'm on a Sunderland forum is purely based on my seeing the forum as a great place for banter and a well ran forum with lot of different takes on lots of stuff.
If you think I'm under any illusions about being disliked by the majority of fans on here for being a Newcastle fan, I'm not but then again I have no issue with Sunderland fans or any other fan who posts, based on their allegiance to a club.

It's all about opinions and forum chat. That's it.

I just wish the undercover Newcastle fans like Zinedine Kilbane etc would just come out and be honest. I don't understand the end game of pretending to be a Sunderland fan.

 

[Nukehasslefan]

I just wish the undercover Newcastle fans like Zinedine Kilbane etc would just come out and be honest. I don't understand the end game of pretending to be a Sunderland fan.

I can't really comment because I don't pay much attention to who may be playing who or what on a forum.
You're going to get your WUM and trouble makers and people pretending to be something or other, as well as your nice posters and prolific posters. Basically every kind of poster.

I talk to a name based on whatever that name posts, if I think I have an answer to that post or I'm quoted.

 

[ilovehorswill]

I don't understand the end game of pretending to be a Sunderland fan.

I’m guessing it’s the same reason some blokes pay lasses to be their girlfriends, they get the chance to feel normal for a few hours a day.

Log in and it’s “Areet lads I love Sunderland me”

Log off and it’s back to waving their fist at shops, running around in a tea towel and patter that would make a glass eye weep.

 

[JL1985]

Newscastle fans need to look at what’s happened to Barcelona.

If Barcelona can’t do it with the money they generate, the Mags sure as hell won’t with their 52k fans, no CL and 3rd league cup exits.

 

[Luna17]

Probably because we have a massive passionate support and a big profile of been a top club and playing in the champions league in recent memory. And they know the fervour of our support will see them treated like heroes and that the atmosphere will be better than if they had picked some tinpot club like Villa

Typical arrogance from an eejit mag.

Aye tinpot, EC winners in 82 for example.

Bore off.

 

[SAFC1962]

Hope so, what will plod do when 20k of us join Amnesty international at an organised protest

 

[The King of Um]

Yes you're right

It's green eyes

Pure and simple

Can't blame you lot. Noses pressed up against the window again .

It'll be like the Keegan era on steroids

Are Hatice Cengiz' objections a matter of jealousy that you're going to be competitive in the Premier League then? Or because your owner, your actual owner, had her fiancee abducted, strangled to death, dismembered with a bone saw and dissolved in acid, after which the assassins flew home on PIF private jets.

Maybe she rates Tarkowski and is just green-eyed.