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You aren't a real doctor unless you spend every second of the day in a lab coat and stethoscope around your neck.

With our strike force I don't think the Yemenis would have much to worry about.

I think there would be a legal challenge were that the case. I.e. they are self-imposed rules regarding the PL and the process rather than something based on UK or EU law. Although that’s pure speculation as I don’t have a fucking clue really. But that never stopped Luke Edwards et al

What makes me laugh is that if we’re not taken over we’ll almost certainly get relegated next season and as the EFL let any Don, Dick or Charlie buy a club the PIF could just buy us then without any fuss.

Aye, Chelsea are owned by a man who was literally banned from entering the country, City are owned by a state with countless human rights issues, Wolves are owned by a Chinese company which puts them directly under the control of the Chinese government, Sheffield United are owned by a Saudi Prince, Spurs owned by a tax exile, Man Utd owned by a family who forced the club to repay their debt but suddenly when we're to be bought over that's where they draw the line? Do they think that MBS is going to instruct the first team squad to go on a preseason bombing tour of Yemen? It's a fucking joke.

And just yesterday our next visa was approved and we've got another year here! I cannot quite explain the feeling of relief at getting that email.

She’d be fucked. First time for everything, I suppose.

You gonna eat it like!?

When I was at uni one of my housemates - A YORKSHIRE MAN -looked around the reduced section of a small coop for an hour. He left with nothing.

Aye, that’s the standard company car.

Bit hard to fit a flat pack wardrobe into the back of your Nissan Micra, you fucking cuck. 'Oh but it does 60 MPG!'

They voted the one time it really mattered, unfortunately.

Easier to just leave a fishing rod and a bucket of fried chicken outside his front door to try and lure the enraged spirit of Raoul Moat to do a bit of poltergeisting.

- It will be in the contract that they have to broadcast the matches. Having the rights and sitting on them wouldn’t be an option - Any court action would take place in the U.K. rather than Qatar - The Premier League has an annual turnover of £5bn. The cost of a court case won’t be a concern. - There are other bidders out there for the MENA rights including Saudi Arabia. The entire league can’t be beholden to one broadcaster, it’s ridiculous.

In fairness to CT he reckons he’s only 32” these days.

CT: influencer extraordinaire

If Andrew thinks New Zealand is so good why doesn’t he just move there?

Should’ve made a commode, tbf.

Time hasn't been too kind to Didier Deschamps I see.

I absolutely didn’t check out her digital knickers in photo mode.

Thanks that sounds tempting. I have grown quite attached to Kassandras rear view

Difficult to answer because a lot will depend on how it is set out in the contracts. But I doubt that it does cover the unlikely scenario of the PL not coming to a decision. There will probably a lot of issues for the PL to be aware of. Maybe that does explain their angst of coming to a decision.

I’ve just got back from a stroll along the Roman Wall from Housesteads to Steel Rigg and back with the Fistlets. I’m all about wearing masks in shops and social distancing etc, but we encountered an entire family fully masked ( and rubber-gloved ) about halfway along the walk.… … in the middle of the countryside, with a mild hurricane blowing.

Time for the sobering reality of Chris Basham. Cheap Sheffield United cast-offs who they’ll be hoping will take low wages because he’s a Geordie.

Not with that haircut.

Dey see me rollin' so dey do, dey hatin' so dey are.

Ugh you are the worst. Fucking Paddy McFlash.

I sold it years ago. Making the bitches fizz at the slit in my Merc now.

I honestly think Im more interested in seeing all the jackasses held responsible for this farce than the actual takeover itself. The 350M can go towards dragging Masters and his cunt of a team through the courts. Fuck football I say.

THANKS FOR LETTING US KNOW

I have LOU2 but I’m still trying to finish AC Odyssey at least to the point that the cult is wiped out completely. Still a grim zombie survival epic will make a pleasant change to all the greek sunshine and tits. I imagine.

Seems to me the PL are quite happy normally to sign off on crooks, gangsters, conmen, embezzlers and sweat shop owners. I wouldn’t be surprised if the saudis sue the wankers now.

If anyone needs a muzzle.....

Seems like the "end-game" to the successful conclusion of these negotiations. The Premier League are briefing the media in a manner similar to that seen in any high-profile negotiations, for instance where we saw the UK and EU governments briefing en masse about how the Brexit withdrawal deal was close to collapse in the final days before the negotiations' deadline. It puts pressure on the other side for last concessions and makes it look like they have driven a hard bargain on the eventual successful conclusion of the negotiations. The PIF can now make some superficial changes to their decision making structure and it'll be done.

I think a huge portion of the country don't care about politics at all and won't even link the two together.

Agreed, I mean from what I have read about the actual O&D test I don’t see how MBS would fail that anyway (since it’s mostly about having money, not being involved in fraud in football, and never bankrupting a football club before). I’m honestly at the point where I just feel the PL don’t know what to do so are sitting on it and hoping the Saudis pull the plug on the bid.

Shirley the first couple of questions of the O&D test would have been whose buying the club ? Also who'll be running it ? For this to be holding things up 4 months in is amateurish by the PL.

Agreed, also iirc only one bid can undergo the O&D test at a time so it would make any ‘exclusivity’ fairly meaningless. I also don’t really understand the “not liking the structure”, as you say it’s been there since day 1 so if this is what they’ve been faffing on with for 4 months that’s a complete disgrace. I also don’t see what difference it makes to the PL who has final say if they’re all involved in the O&D test? Unless Edwards point is that they think the decisions would come from outside the Officers/Directors listed, such as MBS? In which case I think it’s pretty farcical to presume the leader of a country would be making day to day decisions for a relatively small asset in his portfolio, he’d leave that to the trusted members who have been appointed as officers and directors by his investment staff. I also don’t really see how that would actually hold up upon rejection? What would the Saudis even be able to do to answer what would essentially just be an incompetent wanker (Masters) simply not believing them?

It’s strange how he keeps sticking to promote Mauriss as an alternative bidder but isn’t offering any information about him even though a lot of questions about his credibility have been raised. I am also sceptical about his claim that the period of exclusivity has expired. Normally that kind of period does only cover negotiations but in this case a deal has already been reached and contracts signed. Agreeing to another deal could lead to rather expensive court cases .

Of fucking course.

Rafa’s didn’t think he was worth £40m. How foolish that looks now

That’s still quite a lot of morons, selfish bastards etc. The worst part for me is the complete lack of compromise from those in power and the twats still claiming no deal is what they voted for. It’s completely at odds with the democratic freedom they claim to be upholding. It’s not even the tyranny of the majority, as you allude to, as most people now realise what a stupid fucking idea it was and that they’ve been lied to.

It just goes to show how much of an unlikeable prick Edwards is when the only coat tails he can hang on to belong to Steve Bruce

Nee idea who he is but there’s no way he’s better informed than Edwards and Keys

“Yuh wah dissapointed to lose ASM, he was a canny, canny playah, wuhl have ta roll wah sleeves up again & dust wa selves down again, Tyne bridge, blaydon races, ye olde Gallowgate bogs, big Andy will do well on the wing”

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2020/07/a-new-start-built-on-old-lies.html?m=1 The convolutions of this logic are dizzying. Brexit must happen so that the UK parliament can take back control from the EU of something over which it did in fact have control but had foregone the right to exercise, but since it had done so then now it has taken back control that foregone right should continue to be denied parliament because it would have no fewer rights than if Brexit hadn’t happened in the first place.

Also Eddie Howe is no longer the favorite to be the next England manager..that honour goes to steve bruce who has done a remarkable job winning 4 out of the last 20 Premier League games and scoring 38 goals over a season, despite only having £40 million to spend on a center forward.

More likely to turn up at the Jets than United.