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Oh yes mr walker. I remember being told city unfairly were buying there way to the top with all the signings they made using blood £. Then when they bought walker from us, suddenly I was told that £50m they used wasn't blood money. It was from all sorts of revenue streams. Sounds legit
Nothing wrong with the North east!
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Exactly. And when the shit hit the fan, as many of us knew it would after we imposed our own 18 month transfer embargo, you predictably backed the snooker ball on the right!
How would a new regime be any different than an ENIC one - morally?
Yeah that's true about some chelsea fans. But as you say they were forgotten about & easily replaced. I also think that kind of tied in with the shift to modern football & all the things not to like about it. Regardless of our owners I have gone off football a lot. I also wonder if a lot of people go off football more as they get older. Realise its not as important or its just got old so not as interesting. I appreciate the protesting you did & you're right. But I guess its hard to be motivated to protest when you know it won't have an impact. Maybe the Chelsea or united fans who stopped supporting them could have protested enough to stop the new owners taking over. But I doubt it.
The nail on the head there mate is we are all in today's world (not sure what that means) are less bothered to actually do something. On the whole, we are apathetic and lazy. Social media whilst is a hugely important outlet and also be just as important defence and on both sides there is a lack of transparency and authenticity.
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can voice this. I think they can go one step further and protest the new owners whilst knowing that the investment will still come (remember protests don't change anything), they can come out of this without looking like hypocrites because it's fair to say they were right to protest against Ashley but for those same people to "welcome" the Saudi's is just a joke.There's always going to be knackers who think football stadia aren't the place for politics. Those same morons who begrudge a Rainbow flag. So I don't think anti-Saudi protests are the way forward, personally. I think ramping up support for those who're treated the worst in that regime is the best way to go about it.The nail on the head there mate is we are all in today's world (not sure what that means) are less bothered to actually do something. On the whole, we are apathetic and lazy. Social media whilst is a hugely important outlet and also be just as important defence and on both sides there is a lack of transparency and authenticity.
The only time I've seen a genuine movement and groundswell of opinion formed and mobilized huge swathes of the population was over poll tax and the Iraq War. I can't remember if it worked over Poll tax or not and it certainly didn't over Iraq War. Form our side of the fence I thought the Anti-gun protests in the US looked to be powerful but that too appears to have withered and died and has come to nothing.
So, yeah perhaps we are just all too beaten up and know that to protest will do nothing to change anything. That said I still think if anyone feels strongly enough about something they have the right to protest it and protest it unopposed. What is really encouraging from what I'm reading about the Newcastle takeover is just how many of their fans are communicating how conflicted they feel about it. And many, like
One thing the "lockdown" has proved for me is that I spent too much time watching football before. I thought I would miss it, but there are other ways to spend the time.
It's a funny old one - you initially miss it, but the longer the cold turkey goes on (especially with its importance dwarfed by *other things* in the world) the less you even remember.
Definitely the BeIN sports side of things, but Amnesty International and Fair Square who represent them are hardly allying themselves with Qatar to have a pop at the Saudis.
I don't see how the Premier League can take the political issues on board.
I think there was less fuss because it all happened so quickly. Mostly because the seller had just had his assets frozen and had to sell.
