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The thing is that the piracy stuff probably had much more of a chance of making an impact than the human rights stuff

Mike Ashley isn't a country and he doesn't kill people

The Chinese government aren't currently buying a Premier League football club. Why can people not understand this?

We could probably get Stones, Man City are looking to bin him

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE STOP USING HAVING MORALS AS AN INSULT!!!!!!!!!!! Guardian is Manchester-based, isn't it? Probably both clubs there now collectively shitting themselves. No. It's based in Kings Cross I mean, "moralistic" tends to be a negative adjective. Having morals is obviously a lovely trait if you don't insist everyone else has exactly the same morals. I'd probably expect most people to have similar morals when it comes to bombing kids tbh Confident the Newcastle fanbase will continue to be anti child-murder, no matter what Squires et al want to suggest. Well then don't defend their actions in any way by deflecting on other clubs or other countries, or where the journalist is from or who they apparently "support"

There's a lot of these tweets the last few days, and most of them haven't really been telling us anything new and I'm not really interested unless its a big development

CAN PEOPLE PLEASE STOP USING HAVING MORALS AS AN INSULT!!!!!!!!!!! Guardian is Manchester-based, isn't it? Probably both clubs there now collectively shitting themselves. No. It's based in Kings Cross I mean, "moralistic" tends to be a negative adjective. Having morals is obviously a lovely trait if you don't insist everyone else has exactly the same morals. I'd probably expect most people to have similar morals when it comes to bombing kids tbh

Can people please stop putting up tweets in Arabic with no explanation?

Well, no because that would be impossible. The amount of deflecting from valid criticism of them is ridiculous though

Also, Amnesty have criticised Man City in the past

Would take Nagelsmann of those listed

Surely the tribal nature of football is what partly makes it? If fanbases were in the rugby mould and displayed respect to each other and didn't hypocritically back their team to the hilt it would be terrifyingly dull and disgustingly Tory. Having thought about, very briefly, I see little issue in supporting NUFC under the (potential) new ownership. For me support of your local team has never been linked to the ownership, albeit I did sack of a season ticket this year as it became abundantly clear we had lost the will to compete. Support is everything Sir Bobby outlined in that famous quote. If we had the option would we rather have an owner who didn't engage in human rights abuse? Aye, but Newcastle fans' ability to choose who runs their club and to impact global politics is non-existent. If we sought to live a completely pure life we'd almost certainly manage to eradicate all pleasure from our lives. Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. What's disgustingly tory is saying you don't care about what the Saudi's do as long as its benefitting you, not saying you're saying that mind Welcome back btw

Will be interesting to see the type of signings we make. Can't see us just going out and getting world class players straight away. Think we might start picking up the "best of the rest" outside the top 6 kind of Premier League players

Whilst accepting wages through their Saudi funded newspapers. Do they have a choice who owns their employer? These people still need to provide a living to their families. If your so adamantly against the regime then get another job/move to another publication not funded by the Saudis. Aye, print journalism is really on an upward trajectory

Doubt Merino would come back

18. Very happy with that

Mad that Gabi never got capped for Spain

Brilliant post

Haven't listened yet so don't know the tone of the discussion, but Alex Hurst from the True Faith podcast is on the Second Captains free podcast today if anyone's interested

What are we, as a collective fanbase, to blame for? Saudis buying the club? The comments of one individual? Hacking a journalist to bits with a bone saw? The bloke's a cretin. He didn't say that we were to blame for that

Don't think Glendenning said anything that bad there. Nothing we haven't said on here loads of times with regard to how poor the protests were normally

The point by Josh Turnbull is ridiculous mind. The Premier League don't give a shit about the Saudis murdering, etc.

That was great Greg

Only when they play really good teams