The Premier League and Newcastle United are not the only ones under scrutiny after allowing the Saudi Arabia-backed Public Investment Fund (PIF) takeover, as now the club’s supporters are getting lost in a moral maze.
A banner at Selhurst Park depicted Premier League supremo Richard Masters with a bag of money at his feet, smiling at a sword-brandishing Yasir Al-Rumayyan, governor of the PIF that represents the new money on Tyneside.
Between them stood a Premier League owners’ test checklist which read: ‘Terrorism (tick), Beheadings (tick), Civil Rights Abuses (tick), Murder (tick), Censorship (tick), Persecution (tick)’.