I'm genuinely disheartened by all the discussion being about how they might (or will struggle to) create a side to challenge for the top silverware, and nothing about the tyrannical dictatorship that rules/owns the country.
I thought the oppressive dictatorships of Qatar and Abu Dhabi were bad enough, but Saudi Arabia make them look like liberal democracies! The female half of the population are denied even basic human rights; they execute people who are gay; they stone people to death for having a bit of extra-marital (more accurately, they stone the women to death; the men just get a flogging); they cut of limbs of petty criminals, even if they're doing it because they're starving. They are the biggest funders of terrorism in the world, going back to funding the Mujahidin terrorists in Afghanistan through to the Taliban and Al Qaeda; they export their particular hate-filled and oppressive ultra-zealous version of Islam by building mosques around the world; they have murdered thousands of children in Yemen by involving themselves in that civil war to ensure their corrupt chums there don't lose control of the country.
They are scum.
And yet almost everyone involved in football - journalists, pundits (including self-appointed moral arbiter of football, the rent-a-gob Manc tw*t Ratface Neville), managers, players - just averts their eyes and talk about anything but the evil nature of the owners. Honourable exceptions to Klopp in his presser today, and the ever-brilliant David Squires from the Guardian, whose latest cartoon is sheer genius; every panel nails it:
https://www.theguardian.com/football...saudi-takeover
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Originally Posted by Webbo Again
