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https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/may/24/government-did-encourage-premier-league-to-approve-saudi-newcastle-takeover
quote:Boris Johnson’s government worked for months to encourage the Premier League to approve the controversial Saudi Arabia-backed takeover of Newcastle United, a Guardian investigation can reveal.
The extensive efforts to facilitate the deal, led by Johnson’s minister for investment, Lord Gerry Grimstone, were made despite the government, and Johnson, repeatedly saying publicly that they had no involvement in the takeover talks.
Grimstone became involved in discussions with the then Premier League chairman Gary Hoffman, and Saudi representatives, apparently up to the office of the crown prince Mohammed bin Salman, to try to help secure a takeover the government considered to be in the UK’s strategic and economic interests. Grimstone’s work appears to have extended as far as trying to broker a solution to the Saudi piracy of Premier League and other sports TV rights bought by the Qatari broadcaster BeIN, which was seen as a barrier to the takeover being approved.
Grimstone, a former Barclays chairman, was made a life peer in March 2020 by Johnson then appointed minister at the Office for Investment. Its stated role is to “use the authority of Number 10 Downing Street to work across government to break down barriers to landing top-tier investments”.
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- Crazy Ted
- Jul 29, 2003
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well i don't think oracle would get on board with "thundercunt banger of the year" to be quite honest
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Like...why in the gently caress does either the Premier League or the Football League even bother having a "Fit & Proper" ownership test
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- Crazy Ted
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Not Premier League but clearly Liverpool-related and the Champions League is over anyway...
Way to go, the French!
quote:The French authorities deployed riot police in large numbers at the Champions League final in Paris apparently due to a misconceived association of the 1989 Hillsborough disaster with hooliganism, according to an official report produced for France’s prime minister.
The report by Michel Cadot, the French sports ministry’s delegate on major sporting events, appears to confirm many Liverpool supporters’ bleakest assumptions at the final, that the heavy-handed policing they suffered, including being teargassed, was informed by prejudice about their likely behaviour.
Cadot’s 30-page report, delivered on Friday to the office of the French prime minister, Élisabeth Borne, refers to Hillsborough in a section on police intelligence before the final on 28 May between Liverpool and Real Madrid. The section recognises first that Liverpool supporters have not been known for violence at matches. However, it then continues: “Reference to the Hillsborough tragedy in 1989 – 97 deaths – for which the responsibility of the [police] was pointed out, led however to the drawing up of a firm policing arrangement, to maintain order in riot gear, in order to be able to respond to a risk of collective phenomena of hooliganism and havoc, as had happened in Marseilles on 13 June 2016 during the England-Russia game.”
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- Crazy Ted
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Weird how all the people tripping over themselves to post tweets/articles about Liverpool fans using fake tickets have shut the gently caress up and stopped posting on the subject
Apparently French cops read The Sun.
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Frank Lampard's Everton are currently losing 3-0 to minnesota united in the prestigious cash grab Clash of Nations 2022
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