Should be HA'WAY, mate. They have always spelt it HOWAY, which reads like it should be pronounced "how-ay" no "hoh-way". Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeejits...
Barney Ronay Chelsea’s ownership is finally facing deserved scrutiny but there is a double standard when it comes to Newcastle’s owners please log in to view this image ‘Newcastle United are owned by a fund that is governed by a state. And that state is also, like Vladimir Putin’s Russia, involved in the bloodstained invasion of a neighbouring state.’ Illustration: Matt Johnstone/The Guardian The internet always knows what you want. This week a particular video clip has been popping up in those wormholes filled with adverts at the side of my screen, pressing its nose up against the glass for hours on end like an unhappy cat mewling at the window. Alan Shearer slams Roman Abramovich over Ukraine statement. There it is again. And here is the text of Alan’s actual slamming: “There’s still no condemnation from Roman or the club about what’s happening in Ukraine.” It is a robust and sincere statement, deserving of serious treatment. So let’s break this down Alan Shearer has clearly looked at the facts. And he has decided that the invasion of a neighbouring state, the bombing of civilians, the use of advanced weaponry: all of this is unacceptable. By extension, for an English football club to be owned by someone complicit in such crimes, well that is unacceptable too. This is non-negotiable. As Alan Shearer rightly states, we cannot have our football clubs tarnished, sullied, or linked with regimes that may be guilty of such crimes. At which point three possibilities present themselves. Alan Shearer has never heard of the war in Yemen. Alan Shearer is unaware of who Mohammed bin Salman is, or what he does as his main day job. Or third, Alan Shearer is wiling to overlook both of these things because he really likes and cares about Newcastle United. And sadly at this point the world does start to intrude. It isn’t hard to make the connection here. Newcastle United are owned by a fund that is governed by a state. And that state is also, like Vladimir Putin’s Russia, involved in the bloodstained invasion of a neighbouring state. For the last seven years Saudi Arabia has been waging a war that has led to the deaths of an estimated quarter of a million people, not to mention famine, chaos and societal collapse. The organisation Human Rights Watch has called for an investigation into the role of Mohammed bin Salman – who, to be clear, manages the fund that runs Newcastle United - for alleged war crimes. And yet instead of calling out, say, Amanda Staveley for failing to condemn these issues Alan Shearer believes instead that the takeover of Newcastle by the Saudi fund is “a special day” filled not with pain, guilt and chicanery, but with hope. It might be funny. If only it wasn’t so depressing, and so difficult.
It's obvious that the government have no issue with what is going on with this lot, while they can be a benefit! As long as they keep buying arms or selling oil nothing will be said about their war in Yemen, mass executions or murdering journalists.
Said from day one it's was a countdown to KSA committing an atrocity the world couldn't ignore. I'm just surprised the Russians beat them to it.
Not hard to work out WHY Saudi Arabia have executed so many, at once, at this time. The West and USofA will no doubt be begging OPEC to increase Oil Supplies to make up for the fuel that we will no longer buy from Russia. IF the West says nothing at all about these executions, (and I have no idea what the justification might have been, but I have tried to find out), I SUSPECT that the Saudi's will agree, but if The West went in for full blown condemnation I SUSPECT that Imshi will be the response. In fact IF they agree, the Saudi's will suddenly look like the 'Saviours of the Western Economy'. This is of course all speculation on my part, but it does fit into the way that Politics seems to work.
The West has indulged the savagery of Saudi Arabia for decades. The list of PMs who have either their plod their way to Riyadh for an audience, or given regal treatment to various sheiks here is as depressing as it is long.
Howe is aware of what is going on in the world but is not gonna bite the hand that's paying him ****loads of money! Howe insists he "sticks to football" after being asked about Saudi executions https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/foot...abia-26457059#ICID=Android_TMNewsApp_AppShare
