Premier League chief executive Richard Masters was left flustered following a grilling from MPs over the controversial £300million takeover of Newcastle United by 'grizzly' Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia, Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
Masters was grilled at the Department of Culture and Sport by Scottish National Party (SNP) member John Nicolson over how the Premier League could approve Bin Salman's bid, considering that he has been implicated in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi – a dissident journalist for the Washington Post – in October 2018.
Nicolson also pointed out how ex-One Direction singer Louis Tomlinson was blocked from buying Doncaster Rovers in 2014, but Bin Salman could very well pass the league's 'fit and proper' person's test.