• Dizzy-Impact-4955@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Saudi really in everyone’s heads

    I lived there and it’s not the hellhole you make it out to be. It’s not perfect but it’s become a fucking scapegoat now. And people hating on the traditional outfits (Gerrard, Ronaldo) shows how close it’s got to flat out racism

    Not everything is Saudi Arabia’s fault and the country is very much evolving

  • the-watcher-616@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Scandalous all these tv coverges Newcastle are getting. We’re so lucky not having ours on TV at 3pm 🤣🤣.

    Not withstanding CL games pre and post your weekend matches.

    But actually it’s SKY/BT/Prime who choose the game selections in fixed slots.l agreed 3 years in advance.

    But there are easily better games on Saturday and Sunday than Bournemouth v Newcastle so there is a question why that game was selected.

    After writing this I’ve come around to agree with the Saudi idea 🤣

    • distantapplause@alien.topBEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I don’t know if any of the non-televised games this weekend are necessarily any better than Bournemouth v Newcastle. It’s a fairly underwhelming set of fixtures.

  • AlanHuttonsMutton@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Sky get to pick so I doubt they care about Saudi Arabia.

    More likely that they have a big fan base in the country so they get picked more than others, games are quite entertaining, Europa League teams have to play Sunday so they have to play Saturdays more and sometimes ‘bigger’ games get played on Sunday as well.

  • Flabberghast97@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Couldn’t be because in the past year we’re no strangers to scores like 6 1, 8 0, 5 1, and 4 1 and tend to play entertaining football could it? Na must be part of the Saudi conspiracy.

  • Nafe1994@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Because Saudi are paying sky sports to put Newcastle on TV. Just like they are paying the refs to be shit for every team. Saudi have also payed the PL to start removing teams. Soon it will just be Newcastle in the PL, paying a team that Saudi picks every Saturday - at 17:30.

  • KingPing43@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    We get picked for TV most weeks, I looked at last season and 27/38 of our PL games were on Sky/BT/Amazon. This season it’s 8/11 so far.

    There’s only a certain number of slots available and we are playing CL this season so more likely to play the Saturday, as the Europa teams play Sunday.

  • Specialist_Ad_3147@alien.topBEnglish
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    11 months ago

    I wish I knew. I’d much prefer the 3pm slot or earlier. I hate the Monday night football slot. That’s the worst one.