Given that Prince Andrew is number 1 probably down to reports of her covering his legal costs.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-prince-andrew-epstein-millions-legal-case-b1931084.html
Speaking of which has there been any indication from Newcastles new owners are going to go on a Man City / Chelsea style spending spree? Just because they've got it doesn't necessarily mean they'll be chucking it at Newcastle.
They bought a decent chunk of shares in a concert promoter, think it was LiveNation who then put out a statement saying there was nothing they can do to control who buys shares as they're publicly traded. PIF (the Saudi company) then filed something with the US stock exchange basically saying...
90 minutes into trying to work out why everything at one site has suddenly gone offline "some workman cut a cable from a pole outside to the building just before it went off, is that related?". Why didn't you tell me that at the start!
It is but a match day gives a nice focal point for those who protest against the Saudis, arms trade etc? Likely to get more publicity protesting at, or even disrupting, matches than they are standing outside a government building.
The mental gymnastics some of their fans are doing to justify this are incredible. Seen more than one person saying other people can't complain about human rights abuses by their new owner as nobody mentioned it before they were taken over. Takes a few seconds on google to find numerous protests...
Went down a google wormhole reading about different voting systems and found a report on a meeting of specialists in voting procedures to discuss which system worked best. FPTP came bottom of the pile.
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00609810/document
I'm not really in favour of the mega rich taking over clubs and having a handful of clubs that nobody else can compete with but there's an element of if you can't beat them join them. I'd love to see us winning things and playing in Europe.
There's a second part to this though and that's where...
The official guidance is to keep her separate as much as is practically possible but when we had this discussion recently there was a lot of people on here saying they would ignore that as it couldn't be legally enforced, ie you won't get fined if you don't follow the guidance.