OpenC

If it's legit I feel bad for the American who will be reviled as a second rate chancer by a significant proportion of the fanbase only because he came in after Being Owned By The Richest People In The World could have been a thing I reckon we'd have given him a run (if he can afford it, like) if Saudi Arabia were never in the frame

Wew, Saudi Arabia were just a stalking horse all along. This American lad has got some pull

Should have made clear that I agree with this really, I'm not personally clamouring for handicapping and a level playing field. Practically I don't see a significant difference between state ownership and ultra rich private ownership but if investment concerns people then FFP is one way to address it

Other clubs would definitely whinge, just like they and we have in the past about Chelsea and Citeh. I know what you're saying but ultimately whether it's Saudi Arabia or Google that are buying a club, the ones who aren't bought are going to moan. Needs properly implemented FFP to make it less of an issue.

The same unfair advantage that any other clubs that got rich solely through investment have enjoyed for the last couple of decades?

Yeah, that's how I read the limited bits that have come out Not so much about the piracy as the lack of response to the piracy

Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/jun/16/newcastle-takeover-latest-saudi-arabia-tv-piracy-ruling-released-by-wto-premier-league-pressure

Aye, the link was just an article from football law like

Want to see what Richard Keys has to say tbh

Loads of new pages today This is proper exciting

For a change

And if I was Barclays' lawyer I would argue that Roan has a vested interest in Staveley winning her case since there's an inference that her not insignificant role in the takeover is predicated on it Nah, I agree with you, I just can't believe that such a senior journalist would do something so stupid. I assume the stream is surrounded by disclaimers to say "no screenshotting, no videos" like they usually are?

Anything visible in a screenshot is unlikely to prejudice the case. First of all it's not a jury situation and secondly there is no real details visible (i.e. you can't see anything more than the people involved and the room they are in). The journalist may be slapped with a contempt charge. No, the prejudice argument would arise from either party arguing that Roan has an agenda and is potentially denying a fair trial with his intervention. I have no idea what he tweeted like, I'm at work

14 days for contempt might teach him

That was a canny witless thing to do like Might get thrown out for prejudice now

There you go. No surprise, no drama, no slander

Keyser Soze speaks and then disappears once more

calling somebody a liar, in a court case whatever next

Well, I disagree but we'll see if it goes anywhere I watch court proceedings pretty much every day, and a lot of the time the link is still open but people are just talking. Maybe I'm just too used to that sort of thing for it to be a surprise to me.

Don't think that applies when it's being streamed live mind and heard by quite a few people also. Looks like a few are reporting this also to the courts and press, may get interesting. You can go and sit in any court in the country and hear legal teams talking to each other this way on the benches when the judge has gone back to their chambers. Honestly, there's nothing unusual here imo it's the nature of court hearings that one side thinks the other is lying. That's why they're there

Woman from Barclays is entitled to her opinion; if the court wasn't sitting I'm not sure what people expect to complain about I have been called all sorts of things by barristers, and called them similar things back, when the judge isn't there or outside the court

I would have no objections to winning everything by buying success, none at all but I don't think that's what'll happen, and I would be happy being more Leicester than Manchester

I wish there was something else going on in the world so sports reporters didn't feel the need to comment on every bit of inconsequential non-news that comes up