Same with Beckham taking millions to be the Qatar Ambassador for the World Cup, when it was a dodgy bid to begin with, their human rights record is horrendous, and hundreds if not more have died building these stadiums. It's all taking the coin and portraying it as some kind of exercise in 'opening dialogue'.

Really it's a transparent version of how capitalism can easily be undermined. Rampant corruption in politics means that politicians can typically be bought on the cheap, undermining society. There would never be any need for the likes of Russia or China to go to war with the west (because a conventional war would be all but impossible nowadays), as they can just undermine it from the inside out by using their influence to amplify contentious issues and buy themselves many more seats at every table than joe average will ever have.

There is one on NSC who mentioned it, unless you post on there

Brightons chat forum.

I mentioned it on BBS last night.

Yes mate, I was saying lets hope the rest of the epl also hurl abuse or show a banner! Although, funny enough, I did do a long post-(another brilliant post I might add), thinking I was replying to a Newcastle fan, only for the mackem penny to drop right at the end, the question is, how did you guess? Fair play eagleman, and keep posting the links on matchday, very good links I might add!

Indeed blue, I loved the HF banner, and hope that every game, someone will run on the pitch with the journos facemask on and a tea towel on his head, sitting in the centre circle for 5 mins until getting carted off! I do find it funny though, everyone saying that we wouldn"t accept the same takeover and would be protesting, maybe some wouldn"t renew, but the majority would have red n blue teatowels on and looking forward to winning something! Lets not forget we sell arms to this regime, who kill innocents in Yemen with them, and 17 of the WTC killers were Saudi! Don"t blame the toon fans for buying in to it, blame the Fa/Epl, and the government, for trading with them and not putting them on a blacklist!