Cort
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For me, it was the 4-3 win over Leeds in 2001. I was a young lad and this was only my third season following the club so the fact that it took us to the top of the PL on Xmas sticks with me. Also because we got home just in time for ITV to show their highlights package so I could record this.
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Retired from football today.
I know the end of his time here left a bitter taste, but jesus, he was something else in that 11/12 season.
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Look at that embroidered crest
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I know Man U reapplied directly for the Championship when they reformed in 2018, and this was accepted so I wonder if we can put an application in.
Save Jackie Groenen from Man U.
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10 minutes ago, Dr Jinx said:
Apparently the Sports Direct tat is soon to be down. They are or have negotiated a cessation of the deal.
This has turned me right on. You heard anything about the timeframe - might it be done this week?
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Rescue Frenkie de Jong from Barcelona.
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https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2020/07/16/mps-launch-late-bid-halt-saudi-arabia-led-newcastle-united-takeover/
A group of cross-party MPs have launched an 11th hour bid to torpedo the Saudi Arabia takeover at Newcastle United, by telling the Premier League any deal will help whitewash the state's repressive regime.
England's top tier "should do everything in its power to bring individuals carrying out human rights abuses to account", according to the letter from eight MPs to Richard Masters, the league's chief executive.
The group expressed particular concern at Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman's chairmanship of the state's Public Investment Fund, which wants an 80 per cent stake in Newcastle.
"Unless Saudi Arabia reform their criminal justice system and release all political detainees, the Premier League cannot sign-off on the sale of Newcastle United to PIF," says the letter from John Nicolson, Damian Collins, Caroline Lucas, John McDonnell, Crispin Blunt, Virendra Sharma, Alistair Carmichael, Lord Judd, Chris Law and Baroness Young of Hornsey.
The state-ordered murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi has been disastrous for bin Salman's current campaign to earn new Western allies, but he has pressed ahead with dramatic reform in his attempts to modernise Saudi, and diverse his economy away from oil.
Masters has already received several warnings over the deal from the likes of Amnesty International over the state's human rights record and Qatari broadcaster BeIN Sports over the nation's role in the beOutQ TV piracy scandal.
Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of PIF, is in line to be nominated chairman of Newcastle if the deal goes through. With a long-awaited decision from the league's directors and owners' test still pending, the MPs see their letter to Masters as the last chance to derail the deal.
Businesswoman Amanda Staveley in the stands during the Premier League match at St James' Park
Amanda Staveley is involved in the consortium looking to buy Newcastle CREDIT: PA
"There are serious concerns regarding his (bin Salman's) suitability as a ‘fit and proper person’ as defined by the English Premier League (EPL) Handbook. Section F.1.6, which applies to both owners and directors of football clubs, provides that an individual cannot hold such a position if the board determines that certain offenses conducted outside the United Kingdom would disqualify them from such a position," the letter says.
Mr Nicolson, an SNP member of the Select; Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee, told the Daily Telegraph: “On top of the disgraceful assassination of Jamal Khashoggi, Saudi Arabia under the stewardship of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman continue to commit human rights violations at an egregious level. Whether using detention as a tool of political repression, which has seen senior royals such as Prince Mohammed bin Nayef and Prince Turki bin Abdullah imprisoned, or the continued detention of women’s rights activists such as Loujain al-Hathloul and hundreds of other prisoners of conscience, Saudi Arabia are trying to whitewash their image through this acquisition.”
The MPs claim the Premier League's own rulebook should immediately exclude Saudi. "According to sub paragraph F.1.5.2 and F.1.5.3, these offenses include 'any offence involving any act which could reasonably be considered to be dishonest'," the letter adds, also citing oppressive living conditions for women. "We are seeking clarification on how the Premier League could possibly define the head of one of the most repressive regimes in the world as ‘fit and proper’. This is the head of a regime whose war in Yemen has resulted in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world, who executed 184 people in 2019, and who continue to repress any form of dissent through the use of illegal detention.
"The Saudi authorities are only too aware of these allegations, and through a sophisticated ‘sportswashing’ campaign, are attempting to whitewash their reputation as a repressive regime. By enabling this, the Premier League is facilitating this activity and acting as a laundry service for repressive regimes to improve their images internationally."
Last month the state was criticised by the World Trade Organisation for turning a blind eye to piracy. This week the country escalated its ongoing dispute with Qatar by permanently banning beIN Sports, the only Premier League TV rights-holder for the region.
"We are gravely concerned by the direction of travel of Saudi Arabia and believe the English Premier League should do everything in its power to bring individuals carrying out human rights abuses to account," the letter adds. "Unless Saudi Arabia reform their criminal justice system and release all political detainees, the Premier League cannot sign-off on the sale of Newcastle United to the PIF. Human rights should be a red line in any proposed sale of a club."
Current owner Mike Ashley bought Newcastle in 2007 and put the club up for sale in 2017. The prospective owners hoped to complete the deal, brokered by British financier Amanda Staveley, before the resumption of season last month.
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Imagine being so obsessed with your rivals that despite facing administration and just finishing in your lowest ever league position in the 3rd tier of football, all you can think to get riled about is that you think your rivals over-rate their former CL-winning manager.
What a weird planet they live on.
They are also obsessed with Caulkin and one poster called him 'Thick as arseholes that lad'
https://www.readytogo.net/smb/threads/christ-hes-off-again.1521757/
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Didn't realise the Germans had a female ref in their top division
Her bf is Howard Webb.
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Found Barry Glendenning & James Montague to be pretty infuriating at points.
Jesus Christ that's tedious. Did anyone make it past 5 minutes?
I have to be honest I don't hate Glendenning, but I do pity him. He's garnered this reputation as being a bit of a drunk bore, and even if it's true it's a bit unsettling to watch people around him joke about it.
He also doesn't seem that enthused about his own job. It's lots of half-arsed pod appearances and talking points even he doesn't feel confident in.
Yes, which I hate. Ultimately he's getting paid to watch, talk and write about football and he treats it as if he's stacking shelves, and then has the gall to chastise fans that actually pay to watch
He's the Michael Owen of journalism.
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adidas for me as long as we're one of their premium teams. (Yeah I know their kits for Juve are rank this year but I'm sure they'll be over this phase soon enough)
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That was published over 7 hours ago
depends on what timezone probably not uk
I'm pretty sure the forbes website will display the time in whatever the time is in the locale you are in unless it's static and they just update the text themselves every minute and ignore any framework.
Edit: Also its 9PM in Riyadh
Could be US timezone, you're probably, right but just gobsmacked it's taken over 7 hours to be picked up on.
Sadly it's not. Here's an article from 10 mins ago:
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Only one team for me
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At what point does this guy become someone with an agenda, rather than someone fighting a genuine moral cause?
2 weeks ago. He’s a total cunt and has done more damage to his cause than anyone could have.
Yeah I think that's nail on head. He's basically one of those social media warriors that we see in politics that refuse to accept that the world isn't black or white and as popular as they are on Twitter, regular folks see the charade. I think Obama put it best when he said 'If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because 'Man did you see how woke I was? I called you out! That's enough," he said. "If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far.'
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At what point does this guy become someone with an agenda, rather than someone fighting a genuine moral cause?
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Give them a £2 million loan to pay salaries like Bayern did Dortmund all those years ago, and then watch them fuming when everyone claims that we saved them
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Shame the real thing has the crest in that horrendous patch, because the leaks showed the old style adidas embroidery.