Earlier this week, the influential Kick It Out charity contacted Newcastle United seeking urgent talks about the fact that some of its supporters had worn Arab fancy dress costumes at last Sunday’s match against Spurs.
It might seem surprising that Kick It Out, which campaigns for equity and inclusion in football, has had nothing to say about the takeover of the club by the Saudi Public Investment Fund, a group chaired by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
He, of course, is the unelected ruler of an authoritarian regime that murders dissident journalists, jails women’s rights activists and tortures political opponents.