General Premier League Thread 2022-23 - mod note in OP 12/03/23

There are different levels of bad. If I break a red light in my car it’s breaking the law but it’s not comparable with selling drugs or killing people.

I think the “aren’t we all corrupt on some level” type arguments are quite shallow whataboutery . Yes we all do hypocritical stuff and probably drop our morals as it suits us. Yes many people with alot of money probably weren’t whiter then white getting it.

But that doesn’t mean you just accept that this means anything and everybody is fair game. I think an awful lot of people in these threads need to educate themselves on sportswashing before commenting on it because clearly a lot of people don’t get it.

If you start from the viewpoint of their motive and follow all threads to the end you don’t end up at a place where you can ignore the implications of allowing this to continue to infect the sport. Ignorance is no excuse.

There was a great piece in “Manchester is red” podcast on it and the athletic have done countless ones in the past. There’s plenty of places for people to properly educate themselves on it and then make an informed decision on it.

Im not saying I won’t support United if they are Saudi or Quatar owned. I don’t know what to do with it to be honest and as mentioned I could choose to not support them. But I’m not sure I’m prepared to do that.

I didn’t stop supporting them even though we had muck owners. I didn’t stop supporting them because they were doing poorly. I didn’t start supporting FC United like some fans did.

What I am prepared to do is express by disgust at it. What will that achieve? Not much probably but I’m not fooling myself that “it’s all grand” or going to lie to myself that this isn’t an abomination of a situation to be allowed to unfold. It’s disgusting and every success United has under this sort of ownership (if it happen) will be tainted.

I am human , maybe in awhile , like everybody else, I will have been groomed to just accept it, but I’d love it if somebody intervened now to stop this rot. I don’t want united to be a pawn of these sort of owners.

Chelsea, Newcastle and City opened the door, united would be kicking the door in completely. Might aswell get Putin and Kim Jung to buy clubs , sure it’s just their culture right and sure aren’t all rich people probably shady anyways?

Mod Edit

Warning issued.

Arsenal are a very petulant team when things start to go wrong.