I jumped aboard here because we're both Liverpool fans. It's only now that I discovered we're both Cleveland baseball fans too! How many people in the world do you think are fans of both of those teams without being from anywhere near Liverpool or Cleveland? There can't be many of us.
Speaking of Liverpool, our version of "Allez Allez Allez" is one of the songs I've sung to my son a lot when trying to get him to sleep. I like that I can sing "We've won a fucking lot" to him because he's not yet old enough to make anything of it. I also have my own version of the tune, with lyrics ABOUT my son. Anyway, if you get sick of "Baby Shark," go to the Liverpool songbook.
I'm the resident idiot Newcastle supporter, but I have no real permanent allegiance to the club - I only started in 2018 and so I have no legitimate ties to the community. I've been annoyed to see fans immediately jump to "What about <X>?" when anyone mentions the slimy nature of the new Newcastle ownership.
But realistically, what should I do here? I am watching these matches from a continent away, and basically nobody in the world even knows I'm watching other than NBC, who I pay for Peacock access. I think the only tangible action I could take would be to cancel my Peacock subscription and stop watching the Premier League altogether. What's the alternative? I continue to watch Newcastle but I root for them to lose? Or maybe I could watch soccer except for any match involving Newcastle?
After all, the PL is the entity that allowed the sale to happen - and it's even slimier that the Premier League's "concern" wasn't the murder of journalists, or human rights abuses - it was the fact that the KSA was complicit in pirating Premier League matches. "We care about things, but those things are limited to our money" seems to be their position.
I'm not trying to be a buzzkill or an asshole (although I'm probably both, lol) but I really don't know what can be done. What I really hope is that Newcastle fans will protest the new owners as strenuously as the protested the previous owner. It probably won't happen, but I'd like to see it.
We are going to need a photo of you in that Southampton jersey :) I was camping without cell service this weekend, so I didn't see Southampton win, any playoff baseball, or the where the hell did that come from Purdue victory over #2 Iowa.
I jumped aboard here because we're both Liverpool fans. It's only now that I discovered we're both Cleveland baseball fans too! How many people in the world do you think are fans of both of those teams without being from anywhere near Liverpool or Cleveland? There can't be many of us.
Speaking of Liverpool, our version of "Allez Allez Allez" is one of the songs I've sung to my son a lot when trying to get him to sleep. I like that I can sing "We've won a fucking lot" to him because he's not yet old enough to make anything of it. I also have my own version of the tune, with lyrics ABOUT my son. Anyway, if you get sick of "Baby Shark," go to the Liverpool songbook.
I'm the resident idiot Newcastle supporter, but I have no real permanent allegiance to the club - I only started in 2018 and so I have no legitimate ties to the community. I've been annoyed to see fans immediately jump to "What about <X>?" when anyone mentions the slimy nature of the new Newcastle ownership.
But realistically, what should I do here? I am watching these matches from a continent away, and basically nobody in the world even knows I'm watching other than NBC, who I pay for Peacock access. I think the only tangible action I could take would be to cancel my Peacock subscription and stop watching the Premier League altogether. What's the alternative? I continue to watch Newcastle but I root for them to lose? Or maybe I could watch soccer except for any match involving Newcastle?
After all, the PL is the entity that allowed the sale to happen - and it's even slimier that the Premier League's "concern" wasn't the murder of journalists, or human rights abuses - it was the fact that the KSA was complicit in pirating Premier League matches. "We care about things, but those things are limited to our money" seems to be their position.
I'm not trying to be a buzzkill or an asshole (although I'm probably both, lol) but I really don't know what can be done. What I really hope is that Newcastle fans will protest the new owners as strenuously as the protested the previous owner. It probably won't happen, but I'd like to see it.
We are going to need a photo of you in that Southampton jersey :) I was camping without cell service this weekend, so I didn't see Southampton win, any playoff baseball, or the where the hell did that come from Purdue victory over #2 Iowa.