Rayvin

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jul/14/saudi-arabia-bans-bein-sport-to-further-complicate-300m-newcastle-takeover On Tuesday night, though, it emerged that the Saudi government edict related to an old legal case dating back to 2016 and both PIF and their consortium partners were completely unaware it would be issued. Although it came as a shock and the timing is regarded as unfortunate sources maintain it should not affect the Newcastle deal. Indeed facilitated, partly, by discreet interventions from the UK government, which is understood to be in favour of Newcastle’s Saudi-led takeover, a diplomatic compromise in the Saudi/Qatari broadcast war seemed about to be brokered. Instead came the surprise announcement from the Saudi General Authority for Competition (GAC) stating that beIN Sports’ licence to broadcast was cancelled permanently and Qatar fined 10m Saudi riyals (£2.1m). So to be clear - it was the right hand not talking to the left hand in Saudi Arabia, and has come as a shock to basically everyone involved. What is the point in being an authoritarian dictatorship if shit like this can happen ffs.

Please, please let them stay up It's everything that shitehawk of an owner deserves.

Are you saying you think they'll finish second? I think they're going to struggle for playoffs again - parachute payments are done and their owner is clearly not interested in spending his way out. Plus they'll also have to factor in the 3 newly relegated teams.

Yes but the PL now has to either support SA, or support BeIn - there's not exactly a middleground here. It's not obvious to me that they'll go for SA unless they really have tied all this up and they're also ok with SA rubbing salt into the wound.

I'm having a hard time believing that the PL would so openly bloody the nose of an existing rights partner tbh... Having said that, I also feel as though this wouldn't have happened without a conclusion having been reached one way or the other, unless the whole situation with NUFC is far less important to SA than we think it is.

Why is the world run by children, seriously.

Aye maybe HMHM can adopt everyone here who doesn't have access The rest of us will be second class citizens in our own country ffs.

That makes it sound kinda grim tbh - as I understand it, most of the family oppose his execution and have campaigned for him to be spared. They've come up with this as a means of delaying his sentence being carried out I believe. I mean he's a white supremacist psycho who killed 3 of their family so I would have understood, if not condoned, their wanting the death penalty. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/29/us/arkansas-federal-death-penalty.html

Sobered up at last?

Bruh... (This seems to be the standard term for the kids these days.)

Amen.

No alternative really, but I've seen quite a lot of "working class people" claiming that this is politics working for them. Agree but I was saying this to someone recently and his response was "Ah, so you're becoming a Tory". Fucked if you do, fucked if you don't.

I am going to stress though that in terms of economics, this is so far the most left wing Tory government I think we've seen. They've gone so far into the centre that they're now on the left. Labour totally squeezed out.

Right there with you.

Happy Birthday mate! Enjoy.

Aye but then we'll be on for some manner of talking to about how "the conditions" were much tougher for Bruce, how Rafa didn't have to navigate a lockdown, and how we're about where we should be and should be grateful.

Tories up 1, Labour down 1.

On top of that, don't all previous Presidents have ongoing access to top secret information about the state? So we might have Trump leaking stuff left and right once he's out, depending on his whims.

I daresay you'll find a way to enjoy it when it happens

What happened with this bit, I missed the detail. Did we accidentally impose sanctions against them? Or did we impose sanctions and then decide we could have our cake and eat it by also phoning up to say that we didn't really mean it? This sounds like good news for the takeover but it's a shameful episode for the British in general.

I got it. SUMPRODUCT(SUMIF(C3:D7,"Comp 1",E3:E7)) I didn't get there myself, I did a final spate of desperate googling and found it. Tbf mate, everything you've set out would be fine for a single line and I suspect that if you'd not contributed then I wouldn't have got there in the end. Thank you.

Surely the two tribes he is referring to are 1) Luke Edwards on one side, desiring to be right, and 2) everyone else on the other side, actually being right.

Hope you're right Rents, but I'm sticking to the prediction that they'll be in power for at least another term after this one.

Most left wing spending package I can remember seeing. Going down well with the public too. It turns out that people do want left wing policies, they just don't want to have to admit that they want them. The Tories, to their credit, seem to have worked this out. Can't see any way back for Labour at present, as badly as the government has handled almost everything since the election, they're still managing to create positive headlines and are still up on Starmer.

So the problem is that the variable situation is actually way more complicated than what I've outlined here. The variable columns would be better defined as 'category of variable columns'. And they have drop down boxes for up to 10 or 20 specific subsets of that variable category. So I get what you're saying but no, sadly not. I do appreciate that all of this would be far easier in an SQL database but I can't afford to spend the time on that yet. New venture etc etc.