Tag: Football

Saudi Arabia

The Saudi Football Seizure – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Sports stars are making a heated rush for it, cresting on the money wave, and finding sanctuary in Mammon’s big breasted glory. And that wave is coming, oddly enough, from a desert country, alien to such matters till recent decades, when oil came with blessings and political power. After colonising international golf with a throat…

Source: The Saudi Football Seizure – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Saudi Arabia

Sportswashing at Tyneside: Saudi Arabia moves into English Football – » The Australian Independent Media Network

The CEO of Amnesty International UK, Sacha Desmukh, described the deal as “an extremely bitter blow for human rights.” Great football clubs, she claimed, were “being used to sportswash human rights abuse.” Saudi Arabia had undertaken this move as part of an “aggressive move into sport as a vehicle for image-management and PR plain for all to see.”

Source: Sportswashing at Tyneside: Saudi Arabia moves into English Football – » The Australian Independent Media Network