They are now going all Sharmishta Chakrabarti about City.
Click on the RAWK link to the *DIC pull out of deal/Gillett AND Hicks to take over?* thread, below.
And their reaction to it.
RAWK.
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Basically.
Losing to Manchester United would be football. Losing to Manchester City is fucking politics.
I hate them irrationally, but it isn't because of their achievements on the pitch. They're funded by a country: by the oil underground in a country ruled by literal and genuine, on camera with the help of the police in uniform, torturers. Neither of these things are OK, neither of these things have any precedent.
There's no comparison with any other football club in the history of this sport. Not with Blackburn's millions, not with the Moores brothers. Maybe with Roman Abramovic who is a union buster and rich on stolen money – but even he's not in it for geopolitical whitewashing of a whole country's reputation. Certainly something dodgy enough to see him denied a visa last year.
On BlueMoon there's absolutely no criticism WHATSOEVER, none at all, nothing, ever, of their owners. On the contrary, I've seen posts there literally defending torture. "It's a Middle Eastern country, what do you expect?" "Well, do you think any country has a 100% clean record?" and this sort of thing.
And that's sportswashing working. That's using club loyalty, which is irrational regardless of the club, to normalise something fucked. A real, genuine club with history and idiosyncrasy has been turned into a plastic, hollow franchise whose success means nothing to anyone else but whose entire existence makes the success of every other club worth a little less.
Losing to Manchester United is football. Losing to Manchester City is politics.
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RAWK.(f***ing hypocrites! they were desperate for DIC to buy Liverpool FC)
DIC pull out of deal/Gillett AND Hicks to take over?
https://www.redandwhitekop.com/forum/index.php?topic=162907.0
Consortium pulls out of Reds bid
Dubai International Capital has ended its interest in taking over Liverpool.
The announcement follows the failure of the club's board to formally accept DIC's bid in the wake of a second offer from American George Gillett.
Chief executive Sameer Al Ansari said the DIC group was disappointed but added: "We won't overpay for assets."
DIC had been their most likely suitor and entered into discussions with the club late last year with Sheikh Mohammed the central figure in the investment arm of Dubai's government.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/l/liverpool/6318091.Zstm
