At the time of the suspension of football competitions, a piece of news caused a lot of attention in England.
A consortium from Saudi Arabia is on the verge of buying the majority of Newcastle's shares, for around 350 million euros.
The human rights organization Amnesty International therefore wrote to the leaders of the Premier League, believing that money from the country, where human rights are massively violated, should not enter English football.
"From our point of view, the decision to buy Newcastle is political, not sporting and business. They want to wash their reputation. It is a country that is responsible for the death of a journalist, where basic human rights are violated massively, where the government fear. Entering English football would be a marketing move for them and that is unacceptable for us. We appealed to the British government to stop the project," said Felix Jakens from Amnesty International.
Newcastle fans, on the other hand, are delighted, because, in their opinion, the current owner of the club, Mike Ashley, was a dictator who ruled the club for 13 years.
"We look positively at this, because we are going through the dictatorship of one man, Mike Ashley, for 13 years. He is a successful businessman, respectable, and he made a ruin out of our club. You know how, I don't know the history of Saudi Arabia, I know who gave three goals against Leicester when we entered the Premier League in 1993. We want our club to be great again, not to live through nightmares year after year," said the president of the Newcastle supporters' association, Steve Raith.
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