UncleBingo

Vision 2030 is trying to promote a softer and more secular image of KSA on the world stage, and like it or not, NUFC are very much part of that process. It's classic sportswashing.

I'm a racist, right? ? Behave yourself.

You really comparing Portugal to Saudi Arabia?

Stirring the pot, or making legitimate points about sportswashing?

We need to honest with ourselves as NUFC fans, and this is exactly what sportswashing looks like. We can still support the team without actively supporting this blatant promotion of the Saudi state. The reaction and whataboutery on here and social media has been fucking awful. IMHO.

Grim, but we knew it was coming.

Nice of you to have saved that up, but I was actually taking the piss. ??

Founded by a former Newcastle player from our dominant Edwardian years. BBC News - McColl's convenience store chain on brink of collapse https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-61341350

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but none of them were good enough for NUFC at the time, Mitrovic had his chance in the Championship season, failed to get fit enough and ended up being outperformed by Darryl Murphy FFS. Edwards is such an arsehole when it comes to Benitez.

The atmosphere is fucking bobbins given the importance of the game to both sides. You can hear the players FFS.

I think the reality is setting in that we'll be in the PL next season, the owners are staying and we're going to be improving year on year both on and off the pitch. They realise that they will almost certainly never be at our level again and it's killing them.

Someone who works in the current Academy set up at Darsley Park.

Ashworth will be appointed as soon as the club are mathematically safe from relegation. Things will start moving at a pace then.

First time I've watched us live under Howe last night, and was incredibly impressed with our shape, fitness and desire. Never looked in trouble at any point against a team who have had a really good season. The transformation he and his team have brought about has been incredible.

First game of the Howe era tonight for me and the boy. Can't wait. HTL

This is always worth a watch on this subject....

Or their role in the coalition bombing Yemen?

Well this might upset a few, but as proud as I am about Howe & the team, I've felt pretty ashamed about our Saudi ownership over the last few days....particularly the mass beheading and the more I have read about Yemen. The amount of NUFC fans on Twitter defending the Saudis has been equally grim.

Those Dubravka comments! Can see Alex Bruce heading to Dubravka's house for a straightener.

Short of building a giant fuck off pyre in the middle of the country and chucking tens of thousands of OAPs and billions of pounds of taxpayers money on for about a month solid, it's hard to think how they could have made a worse job in the initial months of the pandemic in all honesty. The catalogue of errors was beyond woeful......but Corbyn eh!

Failing to mention that the UAE are part of the coalition fighting the Houthis. Fancy that. I'm not going to defend the Saudis but the comparison between Yemen and Ukraine are a stretch. We're talking about a coalition fighting an Islamic insurgency at the behest of the legitimate Yemeni govt....pretty much when the US/UK coalition was doing against ISIS/Daesh in the Middle East for years. I think there are far more things to attack the KSA for than this. To he fair, it's not beyond the realms of possibility that a Labour government comes gets elected in a couple of years and decides to stop selling arms to and sanctions KSA, leaving us in the same position as Chelsea.

"I give respect. When I see polls, the next manager and the fella from Bournemouth, I find it disrespectful, I have to tell you." Fancy a tattoo of this on my back.

We're bang in form, hard to beat and it looks like only ourselves and Burnley down there who can actually defend. The crowd backing shouldn't also be overlooked. We also have big players to come back in St Max, Wilson, Trippier (hopefully) and Bruno to introduce. Nobody else at the bottom end have players of that quality. We'll be fine.

"For the football season beginning in August 2019 the Sports Direct Group will be charged £2million for the advertising rights. Sports Direct still considers this to be value for its shareholders.” I'm guessing he lied?

Chortle.