Anyone else think the questions put to EH after the Chelski game, whilst not too surprising, we’re out of order. Think Simon Jordan actually hits the nail on the head. Simon Jordan speaking on Talksport – 15 March 2022: “How many people would turn around that are…Chief Executive of Jaguar Land Rover, which is part owned by Saudi state, and say ‘well I think it is atrocious what is going on over in Saudi?’ “How many people that work for Twitter, for Uber, for Snapchat, all of these businesses that have huge investments from Saudi, speak out in such a way against the Saudi regime? “If we want to employ that sort of logic, make sure we do it to every business. “Make sure that every time you log on to Twitter, do realise that when you are sending your little Tweets out there, that it is part funded by Saudi Arabia. “When you get into the Savoy Hotel, if you are booking a hotel in London, remember that it is owned by Saudi Arabia. “People are happy to drive Jags and Land Rovers, people are happy to go and bank at HSBC. “Dons at Oxford [University] are happy to take money from Saudi Arabian state. So what we should do is get all the Dons at Oxford and Cambridge to come out, all the academics at London School of Economics, that are taking massive donations from the Saudi state… They must come out and talk as well. “Why has it got to be some, with due respect, an inexperienced, not at the top of the food chain in terms of intellect, football manager, to do this?” We all hear about “sports washing” but have we ever heard of “business washing”. As opposed to asking Wor Eddie let’s start asking Starbucks, Twitter, Oxford University etc.
Sadly it's to be expected as that is the level of the press. I mean, why ask a politician or an influential billionaire international business owner, about global humanitarian issues, when you can ask a football manager? But I like Jordan's response. At least he's kicking it back at them, but also saying Eddie should have been briefed better by the PR team, knowing it would be asked.
What Simon Jordan just laid out is the exact reason that "sanctions" against PIF are absolutely impossible. This ain't some Russian billionaire who likes to wave his cock about London. It's a state that owns parts of the largest corporations on planet earth.
If those press idiots had any brain cells, they might not be quite so keen to ask these questions in public...
"Hi Eddie, John McClure, BBC Five Live. With the recent revelations that you drive a Volkswagen, what is your opinion on the 6 million dead during the Holocaust?" "er, I'd like to stick to football" Random Sky Pundit: "LISTEN 4 ME YE, 4 ME, MI OPINYON IS DA' AS A FUTBAWLIN MAAAN HE SHUD B 'NSERWIN TINGS LYK DA' 4 ME LIK OBVIOUSLY BASICALLY OBVIOUSLY BASICALLY OBVIOUSLY 4 ME" Basically how the UK functions.
Saudi Arabia executes 81 men in one day - BBC News What about Egypt, maybe we should ask Mo Salah?? No because it has nothing to do with it.
It's their country and their rules. The Yanks fry people still. Not saying I agree with either, but it's got absolutely nothing to do with the premier league, Newcastle United or me. The people in the west seem to have decided everyone has to live like they do and by their moral compass.
Or we could ask Twitter. Or we could ask Starbucks. Or we could ask the UK Government. Or we could…..
Should have sent them to the UK. We could have water boarded them to a confession and sent them to America to fry.
Get that here every time another foreign national is caught smuggling drugs and sentenced to death. Nobody seems to make a fuss when its an Indonesian. I am anti death penalty for any crime but the Indonesians aren't, a survey showed a majority in favour, particularly for drug offences. As you say Its their country - they make the rules. Anyone visiting or living here should educate themselves on what those rules are. The most hypocritical are the Ozzies - complained like **** when one of their surfers was arrested with kilos of cocaine stuffed in a surfboard and sentenced to death (sentence later reduced) and then moaned when one of the Bali Bombers had his death sentence commuted to life imprisonment. Syariah law is brutal and I certainly don't agree with it. If the UK decided it was an issue they wanted to make a stand on then by all means sanction the Saudi's and all countries that have the death penalty as well. But they don't because its an issue that they don't think is more important than the billions of dollars in trade and other geopolitical reasons why they want to have good diplomatic standing with these countries. Trying to equate Saudi and UAE involvement in the Yemen with the Russian invasion of Ukraine is something only Sunderland supporters would try and do. The UK has voted in the UN to recognise only the Hadi government and we even provided logistical and intelligence support to the Arab coalition supporting that government. What is happening in the Yemen is an appalling tragedy for the civilian population but its a full blown civil war with one side supported by Iran and the other by the Arab coalition. By all means try and broker a peace deal but sanctioning the side we are actually supporting seems a bit of an odd position to take.
