...and while the Man Utd fan we don't miss on this board spends fifteen minutes licking his wounds before making yet another response that makes him look like an utter cretin, here's a story that's just popped up
Sky Sports are reporting that we have received a letter from beIN Sports urging us to block Newcastle being sold to Mohammed Bin Salman's investment firm not because of the human rights abuses, murders of journalists, or general genocide - but because of Saudi Arabia's policy of illegally streaming beIN's Premier League games on an industrial scale just to spite beIN Sports - and that's no exaggeration, as not only is the Saudi service called beoutQ, but when you look at the service's logos side by side it's really obvious what's going on
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...yes, that's as close to "side by side" as I can get, as the available options were either a massive beIN logo and a tiny beout one, or ones of comparable size but 40% of the image was a completely unnecessary transparent border
The thing is, while there is certainly a conversation to be had about beoutQ considering what's been dug up about it genuinely sounds like something out of a James Bond film (albeit a Brosnan one, and Brosnan ones were by and large ****) it really does say something about the state of football that a club is being asked to block a Saudi state-funded takeover of a club not because of the laundry list of reasons Amnesty International could provide for us, but because the Saudis having closer ties to the Premier League could **** up the next rights negotiations
You might notice that this post has significantly more worth than whatever pathetic response Diego vomited forth while I was typing. Can somebody else take the lame puppy to the vet to have it put down, please?