Topic: Newcastle - RIP Jamal Khashoggi; Free Salma al-Shehab

[bradders1011]

Putting the horrible politics aside for a second, that's a nice kit. Very 80s. Reminds me of St. Etienne.

Fuck the Saudi government though.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

Putting the horrible politics aside for a second, that's a nice kit. Very 80s. Reminds me of St. Etienne.

Fuck the Saudi government though.

"Fuck the Saudi government"?!?!?!?!?, what an odd thing to say!, Newcastle have Saudi owners, they aren't owned by the government!

[Tobelius]

Can't ever again put the politics aside when talking about these though,if it happens their murderous owners have won.

Sad that absolutely evil people like MBS have become owners of football clubs.

[Elzar]

I saw Mourinho has been flirting with them, saying how much he loves the club due to Bobby Robson.

Great timing!

[macmanamanaman]

I saw Mourinho has been flirting with them, saying how much he loves the club due to Bobby Robson.

Great timing!

Really?
Wow, Jose really seeing dollar signs there.

He's probably eager to get appointed and get fired with his usual 3 year cycle. Very lucrative.
Ripping off a corrupt oil regime is honest work, if you can get it.

[67CherryRed]

The successfully sportswashed fanbase are falling over themselves to defend it, what a shock.

[Red Ol]

Newcastles’ Saudi colours away shirt for next season

Just needs some random scattering of crimson around the collar and it’s be perfect for them

[BarryCrocker]

Newcastles’ Saudi colours away shirt for next season

Lack of sponsor is probably down to the accountants working out how to be able to substantiate a £100m per season deal with Aramco.

[Drinks Sangria]

I’ll pay the extra money to buy an electric car if it eventually fucks these and Abu Dhabi off to oblivion. Along with them lot over at PSG, they’re the most heinous owners of football clubs ever - and that includes war criminals owning teams in the Baltics and dodgy fuckers like Maxwell over here back in the day.

[sinnermichael]

But I thought there was no link whatsoever between the ownership of Newcastle and Saudi Arabia?

[OsirisMVZ]

Is that a late April Fool's joke?

[rob1966]

Fuckin' Hell! That's no surprise. Their 3rd kit will be all green too I bet.

I've heard its blood red

[rob1966]

So, when do they sign the £100 million a season deals with Saudi Aramco, Saudi Telecom, the Saudi National Bank etc?

[Caston]

https://theathletic.com/news/newcastle-to-wear-change-kit-in-same-colours-as-saudi-arabia-next-season/bY0hrv5Aig0R/?source=twitteruk

[tonysleft]

big opportunity Eddie Howe has on his hands going into next season. if he can buy well and keep his job as they inevitably move up the table next year he will have gotten himself a golden ticket to the England job post southgate. really been proven right to have rejected Celtic and waited

[newterp]

Newcastles’ Saudi colours away shirt for next season

because it's true!!

[Wullie160975]

big opportunity Eddie Howe has on his hands going into next season. if he can buy well and keep his job as they inevitably move up the table next year he will have gotten himself a golden ticket to the England job post southgate. really been proven right to have rejected Celtic and waited

Going by the Newcastle away strip for next season, I'm not so sure

[rafathegaffa83]

Newcastles’ Saudi colours away shirt for next season

Naturally on social media you have daft pricks banging on about other kits being green and white (mainly Ireland)

[rob1966]

Naturally on social media you have daft pricks banging on about other kits being green and white (mainly Ireland)

Doesn't have a sword on it, so obviously NOT based on the Saudi flag

[LovelyCushionedHeader]

Wouldn't surprise me if they changed their home strip to green by 2025

[Ziltoid]

"Green and Red; Off with your Head"

[Hedley Lamarr]

So blatant it's almost comical.  Fit and proper.

[Craig S]

"Fuck the Saudi government"?!?!?!?!?, what an odd thing to say!, Newcastle have Saudi owners, they aren't owned by the government!

1971 - PIF founded as part of the Saudi Ministry of Finance

[Ultimate Bromance]

Just need a suitcase maker as a sponsor and we're off to the races

[JRed]

Doesn't have a sword on it, so obviously NOT based on the Saudi flag

Is that the new club badge?

[Dave McCoy]

Pretty sure Eddie Howe will say he's just there to manage the team and doesn't know what anybody is talking about. His team could be wearing Kafiya's and wrapped in the Saudi flag as they come out the tunnel and it's just all the same according to him. Nauseating.

[rob1966]

Is that the new club badge?

Give it time

[Stubbins]

big opportunity Eddie Howe has on his hands going into next season. if he can buy well and keep his job as they inevitably move up the table next year he will have gotten himself a golden ticket to the England job post southgate. really been proven right to have rejected Celtic and waited

Worked out rather well for Celtic as well.

[oojason]

'Newcastle kit sharing Saudi colours would be sportswashing, Amnesty says':-

Leaked images suggest white and green away kit next season
Newcastle appoint chief executive of Saudi golf to their board

www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/13/newcastle-kit-sharing-saudi-arabia-colours-sportswashing-amnesty


'“If it is true that Newcastle United is changing its away kit to match Saudi Arabia’s national colours, it exposes the power of the Saudi dollar and the kingdom’s determination to sportswash its brutal, blood-soaked human rights record,” Felix Jakens, Amnesty International UK’s head of campaigns, said.

“Despite all their assurances of a separation between the Saudi owners and the club this seems like clear evidence of the regime using Newcastle to portray a positive image.

“Everyone – from fans to champions – needs to resist being part of Saudi Arabia’s propaganda drive, be aware of what is going on there and speak out about the government’s abuses: the mass executions, [the journalist Jamal] Khashoggi’s murder and dire situation for LGBTI+ people. Sport must not be allowed to be used like this.”

[Tonyh8su]

The successfully sportswashed fanbase are falling over themselves to defend it, what a shock.

Read a load of comments on two different facebook posts about this, one of which was Amnesty's stance. Shocking.

[lobsterboy]

Amnesty dont know what they are talking about.
No one has suffered like the geordies did under mike ashley.

[Tonyh8su]

Amnesty dont know what they are talking about.
No one has suffered like the geordies did under mike ashley.

Which is genuinely very close to a comment or two I read.

[JRed]

Amnesty dont know what they are talking about.
No one has suffered like the geordies did under mike ashley.

Exactly, where the fuck were Amnesty International when the poor Geordies were suffering?

[Armand9]

Exactly, where the fuck were Amnesty International when the poor Geordies were suffering?

waiting for when the boat comes in

[Billy The Kid]

I reckon these will be even more unbearable than City fans if they wind up being successful down the road

At least City used to acknowledge their shitness, and even embraced their inferiority complex

This lot seem to have it in their heads that they deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as us and the red mancs because one side of their ground is big

[Son of Spion]

I reckon these will be even more unbearable than City fans if they wind up being successful down the road

At least City used to acknowledge their shitness, and even embraced their inferiority complex

This lot seem to have it in their heads that they deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as us and the red mancs because one side of their ground is big

It wouldn't surprise me. They've always been pretty unbearable and weirdly arrogant for a club that hasn't won the league since 1927 and the FA Cup since 1955.

They were going to do all manner of things to us in the 1974 cup final going on what their fans and players were saying too. A strangely entitled and arrogant lot, given their seemingly endless abject failure.

[Stubbins]

It wouldn't surprise me. They've always been pretty unbearable and weirdly arrogant for a club that hasn't won the league since 1927 and the FA Cup since 1955.

Jordan Henderson has won more major trophies in his career at LFC than NUFC have in the period since 1927.

NUFC the club that lists the Texaco Cup and the Anglo Italian cup as part of it's major honours, along with the times they've finished runners up in the different competitions. Talk about padding it out.

[So… Howard Philips]

Jordan Henderson has won more major trophies in his career at LFC than NUFC have in the period since 1927.

NUFC the club that lists the Texaco Cup and the Anglo Italian cup as part of it's major honours, along with the times they've finished runners up in the different competitions. Talk about padding it out.

They haven't even got a Cuckoo Clock to their name.

[Linudden]

Newcastle having a white away kit really doesn't make much sense. There aren't that many teams playing in white or black to begin with, so bar Bournemouth I fail to see where to use it unless they roll it out for any game no matter if they are at a red or blue team. They obviously can't use it at Tottenham or Fulham.

[Flaccido Dongingo]

big opportunity Eddie Howe has on his hands going into next season. if he can buy well and keep his job as they inevitably move up the table next year he will have gotten himself a golden ticket to the England job post southgate. really been proven right to have rejected Celtic and waited

Celtic are a much bigger club than Newcastle, and of course aren't owned by human rights abusing warmongering barbarians.