Breaking: Premier League clubs agree new rules that can see owners/directors disqualified for “human rights abuses, based on Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020”
Breaking: Premier League clubs agree new rules that can see owners/directors disqualified for “human rights abuses, based on Global Human Rights Sanctions Regulations 2020”
— Rob Harris (@RobHarris) March 30, 2023
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Surely Newcastle has to be one of the first to be sanctioned?
Looks like USA is out of the running then.
Castle forest?
To ask the obvious unanswered question “who gets to decide what qualifies as a Human Rights Abuse?”
Was 9/11 enough to get Newcastle disqualified?
So no Saudis?
I call bullshit if City aint sacked by sunday
OK so I assume we will also be sanctioning American owned teams for their war crimes and OF COURSE this is not a pseudo racial vendetta against Arab owned teams…
In this thread “MuH aMErICa”
I like America-bashing as no other when it comes to football but it’s a ridiculous statement in this context. The US government isn’t active in sportswashing.
One upside… Fan ownership for every club I guess!
Seriously, though, I will have to find out what their loopholes are here, because no one with the kind of money to own a PL club has not had an entity of theirs commit at least one human rights abuse.
They either wrote the rule to somehow make it impossible to connect owners to their nation, or I’m missing something.
You could make a good case that every US President in the last 30yrs has committed war crimes, then tie any political donations by owners to those committing the crimes.
I’m curious to see how deep they are willing to go.
Lol…this will be enforced worse than FFP!
What if their football is just so bad that I *feel* abused?
Basically anyone that isn’t from Western Europe will be considered disqualified and anyone from Western Europe will have their violations waved away
Well you can say whatever you want, but the ownership in football is absolutely a joke right now
Regardless of how it has affected football, I see people, even life long fans of their clubs begging for Saudi owners
It’s disgusting honestly
What a farce
I am curious as to how effective sportswashing has been thus far? It seems to me that it brings a lot of these countries issues to the forefront, rather than normalizing them. I think I would have forgotten all about Jamal Khashoggi if it weren’t for the WWE’s Saudi Arabia shows, LIV, and Newcastle. Not to say that his killing wasn’t horrifying and important, but there are a LOT of other horrifying and important things going on in the world.
We’re talking about that sport where people pull their shirts up and think it makes them look cool?
Does it look like we’re doing something? Cool? Bring on the sportwashers!