Bin Laden family in bid for Newcastle?
By murph | July 8, 2008
This has nothing to do with SEO or anything business related, but with the most boring time in sports (with all due respect to Roger Fedrerer and Nadal, when A-Rod’s divorce makes the top story after a weekend, I’m sorry, it’s boring) right now, this is an interesting story for all of us fans of the beautiful game.
With all of the transfer talk heating up (looks like Freddy Adu AND Michael Bradley may be heading to Monaco, and as a Manchester United fan I would love to see Berbatov in a red shirt next season, Ronaldo is staying, unfortunately) this may be the most controversial story thus far.
ThisisLondon.co.uk is reporting that a construction company headed by the Bin Laden family is planning a bid for Newcastle United.
Newcastle have since denied the claims , and everyone knows not to trust english newspapers sometimes, but what if there is truth to this? Will all of those bandwagon American Newcastle supporters that started buying black and white strips since the movie Goal came out continue to support this side? Their best player, Obafemi Martins, is reportedly headed to Arsenal to replace Adebayor, and Newcastle aren’t exactly making a move for the top four.
With what will likely be the near collapse of Manchester City after their owner’s funds are frozen once and for all after trial(right, like Ronaldinho would want to play for Man City), what kind of negative publicity will this add to football (soccer) ownership (along with Gillette and Hicks at Liverpool feuding).
Let’s hope Jim Rome doesn’t hear about this and talk about it on his show, the 10 people who actually watch might tell their Nascar buddies.
I’ll hope to get back on topic later this week and post something useful.
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