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And some people say sportswashing doesn’t work

Fathers Day went down well for me, a bottle of whisk(e)y from our son and our daughter has just arrived with a United cup and top, think I will crack the whisk(e)y sooner than later.

No it doesn’t, it is pretty much universally agreed that it has no effect on crime.

There is nothing wrong with stopping your support for a club that you cannot morally compromise with. I’ve stopped following many teams because of ownership. Newcastle United directly benefit from suffering in Saudi Arabia. Now most people in the developed world do benefit from suffering in their day to day lives, coffee, tea, chocolate, clothing sweatshops, are all things we take for granted. I’d respect someone if they were to stop consuming coffee and chocolate on a moral stance, for instance, but it’s a minor sacrifice that largely won’t change much except removing oneself from the cycle. Others material goods are harder to give up, like consumer electronics and clothes we kind of need those to interact with the modern world. I’d respect anyone if they were to withdraw or boycott Newcastle United due to the ownership, as it’s a non-essential product, but I also understand the emotional attachment.

first off what happens in Saudi Arabia has nothing to do with Newcastle United. second off it is amnesty international, they are known for fabrication and misrepresentation because they are a proxy organisation for the United Nations. lastly it is all speculative, they report that they met with the convicted yet they are prohibited from seeing even their families. Political convicts are not allowed audiences. their charges were related to sedition, minorities trying to impune the will of the overwhelming majority, including plots to start insurrection. the last one emptied an AK magazine into a kneeling unarmed security guard. I have said this enough times, they are a sovereign state entitled to their own laws and they are applied without compunction, so rather not break the laws is a smarter way ie: what 97% of their population does. summary: the way Saudi Arabia and other states choose to govern and apply their laws has nothing to do with Newcastle United football club.

From wee Kaiden on Fathers Day.

Why read the article when you can just defend the indefensible because your football club wins more matches now?

@Tommy Would you please be so kind to unpin the old thread and pin this one? Asking because the first round draw is today.

Why does 'generally' have to be put at the start of this sentence

Buy new players to replace old players Score when in possession REVOLUTIONARY The whole thread is acting like the reinvention of the wheel. Musing on what was obvious to coaches in the 70s and 80s like Brian Clough, Ferige, Wenger, Cruyff, Menotti, probably even earlier with Shankly, Busby, Paisly. But every action positive has a negative, that’s why every attacking philosophy is countered and beaten down by pragmatism, Bilardo, Herrera, Simeone, Revie, Mourinho, then the cycle begins again with positivity beating negativity. Control F my posts in this thread and you’ll find me stating in 2020 the exact same observation, because it’s obvious and a reoccurring pattern of the sport. I’ve been saying for years that the best at it was SAF, maintaining dominance, refreshing, and recreating.

You’re right because I couldn’t stomach the tone of the first five posts. ‘True religion must transform the nature of the individual’ get the fuck outta here