Why north-east is up in arms at collapse of Saudi Arabia bid to buy Newcastle | David Conn

The eruption of protest in the north-east at the collapse of the Saudi Arabian bid to buy Newcastle United has come as a shock to those for whom the prospect of Saudi ownership provoked revulsion. As it turned out, the Premier League’s owners’ and directors’ test did not bar the Saudis owing to the principal reason for that international revulsion, the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul in October 2018.

Still get all your digs in first ..yes we we want and need investment in the north east..ffs there are tory mps if that is not wake up call to the london centric labour party nowt is...ps man utd have had a subsidiary of the pif sponsor them for years nowt said

The Premier League, apparent heroes in all this never rejected the bid. People talk of ‘sportswashing’ from one side but we’ve just had a whole host of Premier League clubs terrified into action by a Qatari mailing campaign. ‘The North East’ is also wrong. Mackems won’t care.

Why aren’t you writing about education washing or health washing given the enormous investment that Saudi Arabia makes to universities and the NHS? Too uncomfortable for your virtue signalling readers to confront?

Also, if you think that this protest was all engineered as a ploy by the Saudis to ‘sports wash’, ask yourself would this have happened if the PL had acted properly instead of sitting in this for 18 weeks until the buyer pulled out? nufc

It’s nothing to do with piracy. This comes down to the premier league being run by a privileged few clubs. The big 6. They protested because they don’t want another competitor, and this needs investigated for the good of the sport. nufc ThePremierLeagueIsCorrupt

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Fans need to aggressively challenge the entire financial and governance basis of the most abusive, corrupt and criminal sport in the world.

No we’re not. Some noisy Mags are.

So they can launder money, buy power and buy politicians like your Russian friends?

Great idea. Let thousands rot in jail for no reason so that you can see a UEFA cup match or two.

Utter rubbish article, we are all not 'gordies' in the north east.

Not the North East. Only north of the Tyne. Don't drag the region down with this utter embarrassing fanny parade

Newcastle might be but the “ north east” certainly isn’t! Newcastle isn’t the only place up here you know although they would have you believe that! , no one apart from mag fans give a one!

North East is up in arms? Anyone in Sunderland up in arms? Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller? safc sunderlandtillidie

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