Wandy

Too right. Whenever anyone considers feeling sorry for them in the coming years just remember how they went on over the last 18 months, the absolute shower of pricks.

And Exile1968 has posted only about three of them. As opposed to the 50 posts per day that he usually does in that thread, the absolute fucking coward. He might be close to the edge tonight.

Here is the future of our online forums & social media. Bring it the fuck on.

Can only agree. Well done @manorpark I won't begrudge if you gloat like fucking crazy.

You must be absolutely loving this.

The Daily Mail have even got this on a yellow ticker on their site now. This really feels like a tip-off...

Exile1968 is taking the takeover news well. ... ..... "I know one thing. The Bedsheets will be out if they don't spend a absolute fortune in the early days. f***ing Scum buying f***ing Scum" https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/nufc-august-october-2021-edition.1557357/post-34711777

If this goes through without any court cases I will forever treasure the memory of howling with laughter at the CAT judge mocking the PL lawyer last week.

But if the PL lose the arb then they are on record as saying the takeover will definitely be passed. Ashley then has no incentive to drop the CAT after that. If they settle before ARB though they can avoid the damages.

Yeah he's just doing the same as everyone else and looking at MBS' role within PIF and drawing a conclusion. But really, how can our legal team show separation when MBS is so intrinsically linked with the PIF? It look nigh on impossible to me.

He's a complete prick but unfortunately, apart from Mauriss, he's got everything correct so far. And he's very likely to be correct about our chances of winning the arbitration too. We really are up against it.

Ah, we might as well forget about what happened yesterday as Simon Jordan says its still not going to happen... https://talksport.com/football/953778/newcastles-takeover-saudi-arabias-public-investment-fund-simon-jordan/

Or maybe we do have the ammunition for a legal dispute, but we can't do anything or protest about anything to do with the actual ODT itself whilst undertaking it. It's their test and they can do what they want with it, unless we challenge it legally.

Jowell was absolutely pissing himself at that. Wish we could have got a snippet of it as it would have made for a canny meme.

Agree. They surely can't just say "we think MBS will be the person running the show, now prove to us that he wont". They have to be the ones that prove that MBS would be controlling things. The whole thing is so fucked up though that I wont be surprised if the burden is actually on the buyers.

Is it not simply the case that the burden of proof was only on the Saudis to get past the ODT? But when in court the burden of proof switches to the PL? With Beloff on that panel I still think the PL will fancy their chances and won't be backing down....unless the burden of proof falls to them.

With the arbitration...is it a case of the Saudis having to prove to the tribunal panel that the state is separate to PIF? Or is it a case of the PL having to prove to the panel that the state and PIF are one and the same? In other words, who has the burden of proof?

Jowell did well there IMO. Fingers tightly crossed this gets the go ahead now.

They really, really dont want the CAT to go ahead. If this gets put on hold until arb happens I can actually see the arb going our way.

Nice rebuttal from the judge there. Jowell enjoyed that, lol.

Can this run on into tomorrow? It doesn't seem like our team will have much time to present their case?

Lewis stating that if the PL lose the arbitration then the takeover will go ahead. Of course, they would say that though.......

Daniel Jowell is not impressed like.

Lewis is arguing that SJHL and NUFC are one and the same and, to be honest, it sounds convincing. I hope DeMarco has got something good in his locker as he is going to need it.

I don't understand why that is a reason for hope. All that will happen there is the club claim "we have evidence of the PL doing X, Y & Z. The PL then respond with "we refute all of the club's allegations, see you in court". Meanwhile, the national media will barely give the story a paragraph of exposure.