Mowgli
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Putting themselves in needless stupid situations.
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Sunderland will face Saudi Arabian opposition Al Shabab in Friendly (poll in Parsnip)
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Good question
ilovehorswill
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Roker Mackem
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I see your point. I don't think it's a Black and white thing though (pardon the pun). We are having a low key one-off friendly with a club which may just be loosely linked to the royal family. It's not a great look- probably on par with England playing in the World Cup. Could have easily been avoided.
gipetto
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Is this not a massive exaggeration, even by our standards? It's just a friendly for goodness sake.
By making a meal out of it, it makes it into something it's not surely. I feel people are just seeing everything linked to Saudi Arabia as bad and jumping on this to try and take a moral high ground. We're playing a team in a neutral country. Can we not play a game against a Russian team going forward? Dear me.
By making a meal out of it, it makes it into something it's not surely. I feel people are just seeing everything linked to Saudi Arabia as bad and jumping on this to try and take a moral high ground. We're playing a team in a neutral country. Can we not play a game against a Russian team going forward? Dear me.
JackL
Midfield
It's as simple as that. If the mags weren't owned by them it would barely be an issue
gipetto
Striker
Yep, still don't get it. He's also referred to a load of bad PR at the beginning which has nothing to do with the current ownership. It's a friendly in a neutral territory, what has their club and players done wrong?
That article makes things worse imo. Would have been better if it was ignored and mentioned at the next RAWA meeting.
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I think some are worried at the reaction from mags they work with, not only a trip to the UAE but also playing a Saudi team, it’s a sticky situation for some.
It also depends what it means when he says things that I would like my club to stand for, I doubt it’s dawned on him, football is a business now and it’s about profit, pure and simple. For example if a rich person from the UAE or Saudi offered to buy out, Donald or all 3 of them, they would take it, bank the money and not care.
Roker Mackem
Striker
Spot on. Thats what this is- don't want anything to do with anything which is even slightly linked to Saudi. Even the Dubai trip didn't get as much of a reaction
Nookster
Full Back
In June, Watford fans got a friendly against the Qatar national team cancelled after two supporters’ groups, including Women of Watford (WOW), voiced concerns about the country’s human rights record.
This is Watford, a club not recently known as being stable or listening to their supporters (sounds familiar doesn't it)
A Watford spokesperson said "It became abundantly clear this was a game not to play; as such, the schedule was revised”
Mind you Watford supporters have a successful history of club involvement and protests going back decades.
This is Watford, a club not recently known as being stable or listening to their supporters (sounds familiar doesn't it)
A Watford spokesperson said "It became abundantly clear this was a game not to play; as such, the schedule was revised”
Mind you Watford supporters have a successful history of club involvement and protests going back decades.
Any mag reaction of this just shows how thick they are man so stop shitting it that we’ll look daft. It’s a friendly against a Saudi Arabian team in a different country, not much else to it imo
Sorry but this might have been what made it obvious and brought it to your attention but awareness of the human rights issues from Saudi Arabia has been a thing for as a long as I can remember. The fact its crossed your plate now just because of football is entirely by design and why they wanted NUFC and why they want other western sports teams to play matches with them - they get to have the soft introduction of Saudi Arabia as a sport competitor rather than that place that tortures confessions out of folk and kills them, traffic slave labour, imprisons women who campaign for any sort of equal rights, imprisons tortures and kills journalists and of course continues to back and directly commit a load of war crimes that would get Putin hard in the peninsula.
I cannot just pretend its all okay its a just a football match and I dont know what to do about it. This is meant to be my club, I don't want to be in a position where I either accept it is doing something directly opposed to every possible moral stance or stop going and supporting them but its where the club have put me, and it seems it should have been so very very easy to just not.
That’s different though as they were playing the national team
