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With apologies to Lou Reed.... Gloom is waiting for his man Jimbos telly in his hand Up to Leazes, one, two, five If he gets in CTs Taxi, he'll be more dead than alive Gloom is waiting for his man

Sewpa Kev creating a real dilemma for mackems with this take.

I've read the letter, it basically goes without saying that her accusations against the Saudi regime are fair. Unfortunately its utterly groundless in its relation to Newcastle fans and largely incorrect in regards the wider footballing context too. Claim after claim about being "tempted" by this offer, as if its an offer made directly to fans. We need to THINK about accepting it apparently, as if that impacts anything in this situation. "The rules of the premier league do not allow the Crown Prince to own and control your club." This simply isn't a fact as stated and it remains to be seen whether the PL make that judgement, but that has nothing to do with us either. "Your voice will be so very powerful" Will. It. Fuck.

I had a three-pack of this delivered from Amazon the other day. Literal sportswashing.

Elvis typing.

"Word on the street, Gloomboy..... looking good, my man!"

It doesn't cause any harm to sell weapons to Saudi Arabia to get some other stupid muslims killed, but beware of the threat to the general public because some arabs are able to watch british sports without paying for it.

You have to laugh at what people pretend they think is important.

Paging @Christmas Tree Repeat, paging @Christmas Tree

The corner group, wasn’t it?

Reckon they’re going to cancel League One?

What makes you think that city would complain. We've been suffering this agenda shit since pep started winning big. The fact we're being done for FFP is a direct influence of that agenda! But hey from city fans welcome to the club, we need someone else to take this flak from the g14, I really don't think man city would be objecting.

Sportswash me daddy

my phone auto-corrects my lazy typing, i was posting while sat on the toilet earlier

That MP’s call to look into this has been rejected by the committee apparently.

Reckon most of the FA are dealing with project restart or whatever they are calling it, so no wonder it’s been delayed

He’s been trying for this piracy meeting for over a year with no luck.

Well we can add this to the list of things she was wrong about.

I was just thinking from a UAE/Saudi antipathy pov rather than anything related to football.

There is surely no way that any PL club can possibly block this deal on the grounds of just being scared of the financial muscle. The only basis they'd have would be the piracy issue even if it's just a smoke screen. I still don't see how this doesn't go through really - even if there was something in the piracy stuff, how can the Premier League make that judgement outside of proper legal channels? Why would it risk that?

So why do the BBC keep pushing this? A state run broadcasting company. A state that engages very enthusiastically with the Kingdom of Saud quite happily when it comes to weapons etc.

I thought it was still on pre-order!

don't hold this against me. but i have no idea the affiliations each paper have over there, they're all UK papers.

Not sure you’ll find too many Torygraph subscribers on here mate.

Essembee on Good Morning Britain tomorrow.

It's being reported in the telegraph.

Charlie Brooker’s Antiviral Wipe on at 9 tonight for those that are interested, which should of course be everyone.

Lads. Chill oot!

was the first VU song i ever heard.

i'm still confident.

Parts of it do feel like papers trying to generate clicks over a story that naturally doesn’t have much information leaking. Weren’t the Mail one of the main ones pushing the ‘it’ll be approved this week’ story last weekend? now they’re pumping out all these stories about delays and throwing the process in turmoil, I wouldn’t be very surprised to see them going back to ‘it’ll be approved this week’ on Saturday or Sunday. If it’s rejected it’s pure agenda to preserve the “top” teams and stop another Manchester City barging in. There wasn’t a real reason to reject them based on the actual test, I remember seeing quotes from the prior PL head that if you can legally open/own a business in the UK then the PL tests won’t stop you owning a PL club, this would be finalized if this deal was for Manchester United or Liverpool.

Personally I don’t think the PL has the stones or the grounds to deny it but we’ll see. Even if they do I’d expect it to be challenged in court. I doubt they’re concerned with the human rights aspects though, they might take longer for the sake of appearances but that’s it. And btw if they waved through Abramovich and Shinawatra you have to wonder how PIF wouldn’t qualify

Aye thats a weird one. Surely every competing club doesn't want any other competing club to be taken over by wealthier or more ambitious owners.

I also don’t understand all these journalists running stories about rival PL clubs opposing it. They surely cannot have any say, otherwise you’re allowing them to have a say in the future and ability of a direct rival.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52651771 Like a dog with a bone..... Third article by good old Aunty pushing the same agenda

Is this the week CT finally gets the hang of this politics lark?

There’s the kiss of death.

I also oppose components! Down with parts!

CANS ON THE BACK OF THE BUS

Lee “Geordie foot soldier, delivering scoops to his loyal puntaz” Ryder

i've never talked to them more, thanks to zoom and facetime. sick of the sight of them tbh

Just get on the bus together. Sorted

Heartless cunt.

I always make sure I have a dump when I view a house personally. Gotta make sure the soil pipes work okay.

I’m interviewed after the Spain game in some crap football themed attempt at a Hard Rock Cafe in Covent Garden. I think it appeared before Croatia v Denmark. People I know saw it at the time but I never had. Then me mate sent me a message saying I’ve just seen you in the telly as it was also in that ITV Euro 96 doc that was repeated recently. I watched it on the ITV hub. The bright lights of the camera make me look anaemic and I’m only on for about 3 seconds. I’ve got the NUFC grandad collar home top on. I say something like “the atmosphere was class like, y’knaa?”.