Why Newcastle United’s take over collapse was the best result
The Premier League put its foot down?
As discussed in a previous column, the slippery slope of state-run football clubs in the EPL started with Chelsea and, in an even further blatant manner, by Manchester City’s ownership group.
Thus, it is both surprising and welcomed that the Premier League made a point of trying to clarify any links between PIF and the Saudi Arabian ruling family.
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The two reasons stated previously why a consortium fronted indirectly by the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia should not take over Newcastle are examples of why nation-states should never be involved in any way in running private football clubs, which are businesses.
There is no doubt that the take over was an attempt by Saudi Arabia to “sports wash” its image on the most prominent sports league in the world with its billions of fans all over the planet.
It is a compromise with evil and any time good compromises with evil, it’s the evil that always wins.
Furthermore, governments running any private business enterprise, like a Premier League team, destroy the entrepreneurial spirit of independent individual businesspeople and is a violation of their rights.
The proper role of governments is to protect the rights of individual owners and citizens from fraud, crime, and foreign incursion. It is not the government’s place to buy and operate using public money taken by force, football teams.
With that said, the fitness test used by the Premier League to determine the viability of potential owners should be strengthened to include rules that prohibit any state-run ownership of its member clubs.
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This change will protect the sports’ integrity, honesty, and sense of justice by making it more transparent and in private hands.