Sounds like BEIN Sports have potentially killed this deal - the irony being that the other PL clubs just can't afford to lose the TV money from a different oil rich Arab state
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Unfortauntely, multi-billionaires from Byker are thin on the ground. I don't think there's anybody who wouldn't prefer to be owned by a local mega-rich individual, but how many clubs can claim that? How many clubs are owned by people from the same country, let alone the same area?
Would any success we enjoy be different to the success Man City enjoy, or Man Utd, Liverpool or Leicester?
As long as it's an ambassadorial role, I've no problem with this. But, god bless him, Keegan has been out of the game for too long to really be an asset as any role that's more day-to-day.
Can't think of anyone I'd rather have talking up the club to players, reps, or commerical partners mind. He loves Newcastle and will happily speak passionately about it to anybody.
Saudi Arabia ends executions for crimes committed by minors, says commission
Saudi Arabia will no longer impose the death penalty on people who committed crimes while still minors, the country's Human Rights Commission says.
The announcement, citing a royal decree by King Salman, comes two days after the country said it would ban flogging.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - which Riyadh has signed - says capital punishment should not be used for offences carried out by minors.
Activists say Saudi Arabia has one of the world's worst human rights records.
They say freedom of expression is severely curtailed and critics of the government are subject to what they say is arbitrary arrest.
A record 184 people were executed in the kingdom in 2019, according to human rights group Amnesty International. At least one case involved a man convicted of a crime committed when he was a minor, the rights group reported.
"The decree helps us in establishing a more modern penal code," Mr Alawwad said.
It was unclear when the decision - which was not immediately carried on state media - would come into effect.
The kingdom's human rights record has remained under intense scrutiny, despite recent changes, following the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, while many civil rights and women's rights activists remain in prison.
Earlier this week, the most prominent Saudi human rights campaigner died in jail after a stroke which fellow activists say was due to medical neglect by the authorities.
Saudi Arabia will no longer impose the death penalty on people who committed crimes while still minors, the country's Human Rights Commission says.
The announcement, citing a royal decree by King Salman, comes two days after the country said it would ban flogging.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child - which Riyadh has signed - says capital punishment should not be used for offences carried out by minors.
Activists say Saudi Arabia has one of the world's worst human rights records.
They say freedom of expression is severely curtailed and critics of the government are subject to what they say is arbitrary arrest.
A record 184 people were executed in the kingdom in 2019, according to human rights group Amnesty International. At least one case involved a man convicted of a crime committed when he was a minor, the rights group reported.
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"The decree helps us in establishing a more modern penal code," Mr Alawwad said.
It was unclear when the decision - which was not immediately carried on state media - would come into effect.
The kingdom's human rights record has remained under intense scrutiny, despite recent changes, following the brutal murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in 2018, while many civil rights and women's rights activists remain in prison.
Earlier this week, the most prominent Saudi human rights campaigner died in jail after a stroke which fellow activists say was due to medical neglect by the authorities.
'....But of course all football club owners are scallywags to some degree. Take Joe Lewis for instance....'
It's disgusting the way that some here ignore the gaping differences between this lot & ENIC just because our owners wouldn't buy them a new pony.
See, it's already working
See, it's already working
Is this how it's gonna play out then.....? Their take over of your club is a good thing for their people?
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No, you dolt, them taking over our club is them trying to paint a rosier picture of their regime to the wider world.
Owning us is part of a broader project to alter the perception of the regime and, sure, part of that may be softening some of the practises there, but it's not like they're suddenly going to become Canada.
... sarcasm kind of flew over your head there didn't it?
See, it's already working
I would have thought that this isn't a great time (during the fit and proper person test) to make any announcements like this
"We are going to stop giving children the death penalty"
"WTF, you mean up until now you have???"
Unfortunately the Owners and Directors test isn't an "Are you an awful person?", it's just "Are you a tax dodger?". More likely to fail if you've breached commercial rights, rather than Human Rights. Which is wrong and awful.
As an aside and not a bout of whatabouttery, but "since 1990, juvenile offenders are known to have been executed in only seven countries: China, Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran, Pakistan, Yemen, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, and the United States. "
That is not a good list.
Perhaps.... It's not a situation that amuses me so what can I say....
Hmmmm... Who would like to think they're the glaringly odd one out in that list?
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Alreet pearl clutcher.
Ironic is it?
Nah, I'm not offended, I just find the suggestion that I'm a prude for not being geared up for comedy when considering such human rights abuse a bit of a prick's outlook.
Still this from the man that is going to become an overnight LBGT crusader just to feel better about cheering on his sports-washing tool of a club.
Deep and righteous, my man....
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Several tax dodgers have passed the fit and proper test, I am not sure what you have to do to fail.