MaxiRobriguez
Bob McKinlay
I was in Blackpool for a year not so long ago and thought the same.
Saudi Arabian Sportswashing Shenanigans
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I was in Blackpool for a year not so long ago and thought the same.
valspoodle
Steve Chettle
Our country might be thought to have gone to the dogs, but just try living in some of these countries without the benefit of a million pounds a week and then report back.
You'll either starve (as in Africa) or end up in prison for saying or doing the wrong thing (as in most of the Middle East).
We still have our corrupt or incompetent politicians, but you can be sure your vote will count, you can say pretty much what you wish about said politicians and most of us have a decent standard of living.
You'll either starve (as in Africa) or end up in prison for saying or doing the wrong thing (as in most of the Middle East).
We still have our corrupt or incompetent politicians, but you can be sure your vote will count, you can say pretty much what you wish about said politicians and most of us have a decent standard of living.
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
... which is why so many migrants want to risk everything to come here.
You can't blame them, be they attempting to migrate for humanitarian reasons or ecoomic reasons.
However, just because the UK is not as bad as those Middle Eastern/African shit-holes, the great british public should not be complacent.
The ruling classes will do whatever they can to maintain their position at the top of the tree.
Witness: the public disorder and protest legislation.
Battered Sausage
Matchday Squad
How do you pay for your beer on spoons, fresh air and bollacks ?
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Raymondo Ponte'
It's all about mid-table...
Ahh pay forrit wimi disability/Mobility benefits Tiffany.
If that runs out al dip in mi Rock n Roll money or carers allowance.
If that runs out al dip in mi Rock n Roll money or carers allowance.
Battered Sausage
Matchday Squad
Money isn't the root of all evil. The love of money is.
congo_red_49
Ale Ape
I'm assuming Saudi clubs aren't subject to any FFP rules?
Al-Hillal offer Napoli £120m for Victor Osimhen, and a contract with wages of £1m per week.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
They operate a similar stance with FFP as they do with human rights.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
Go get him fazza!
DanR
Steve Chettle
The Saudis and Napoli deserve each other.
eyupmeduck
Geoff Thomas
I saw a snippet on skysports where they said a fee of £24m has been agreed for Mane but that his offered wages per year dwarf that (£34m) - FFS
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Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
An interesting bit of background reading to give a bit of colour to this thread:
www.newstatesman.com
It isn't just sports, and it is nothing to do with "sportswashing", but Saudi has a plan to diverse totally away from oil.
How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
As the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us all.
www.newstatesman.com
valspoodle
Steve Chettle
When I did an Open University course in the late '70s, the Club of Rome report told us that oil would run out at the turn of the century.
Onto a winner there, they were. Obviously the Saudis weren't listening.
Onto a winner there, they were. Obviously the Saudis weren't listening.
mister
First Team Squad
An interesting bit of background reading to give a bit of colour to this thread:
It isn't just sports, and it is nothing to do with "sportswashing", but Saudi has a plan to diverse totally away from oil.How Saudi Arabia is buying the world
As the kingdom’s model of capitalism without democracy thrives, the prospect of a Saudi century has consequences for us all.
Huh?
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
I didn’t t say anything about whether the Saudi intent was good.
I was highlighting the fact that the Saudis had a plan for world domination through capitalism without democracy.
The world will bend the knee in the end.
Ashley
Steve Chettle
Redemption
Agenda Benda
Where does China feature in this fantasy?
Captain Sinister
Senior doom Monger
They will be subjugated
Fitzcarraldo
Ian Storey-Moore
SA, a country with highly questionable cultural legacies and treatment of its own peoples, is planning to build an empire through expansion into, and exploitation of the resources of other countires.
And, the people of the UK, a country built on a system designed specifically to supress its peoples and to protect the power inherent in wealth, is not happy.
And, the people of the UK, a country built on a system designed specifically to supress its peoples and to protect the power inherent in wealth, is not happy.
Morpeth
John Robertson
Can anyone actually name more than one or two clubs, and has anyone got a clue about who will be playing for who?
When their window is shut they will go back to being irrelevant.
When their window is shut they will go back to being irrelevant.
Al Hillal
Al Qudz
Al Gebra
Al Fresco
Al Cohol
Al Dente
Al Get my coat
Al Qudz
Al Gebra
Al Fresco
Al Cohol
Al Dente
Al Get my coat
Wes' Organ
Biggles
Al bout the money.
Senior Flange Technician
Andy!
I hope the oil runs out before they manage to work out it takes more than some shitty football clubs to have anything more than a medieval society.
Gyros Peter
Sauce salad?
Al Abaht Da Behnjamihns