Newcastle fans speak of suffering but what about actual suffering in Saudi Arabia? | Jonathan Wilson

Supporters sang about getting their club back but it is hard to imagine a way it could be more profoundly taken away

There used to be a sport over there.

Football has never been pure. There have always been the rich looking to improve their reputations by investing in clubs. Even in its amateur days, football was rotten, amateurism itself by the end a carapace to try to stop the working classes taking over the game.