What disgusts me most about Newcastle fans now is that there’s a general left leaning fan population that have spent years questioning the ethics of Mike Ashley and his business practices yet now, seem to have no issue at all with the ethics or lack of, of Saudi ownership. One of my Geordie mates argues that the Saudi royal family is just like our own and that we have also been brutal in UK, so we should be positively supporting Saudi to emerge from that phase of its existence. It’s all absolute nonsense to fit the agenda.
There is an interesting group on Twitter for anyone interested called ‘ NUFC fans against Sportswashing’ so there’s some very small percentage of fans that recognise it for what it is. They held an event in Newcastle this week hosting a Saudi human rights activist and sister of an activist tortured and imprisoned. They’re also planning protests on the days of the Saudi games at SJP. Look them up and give them a follow, I’ve got huge respect for the position they’re taking.