TalkSPORT host Max Rushden has taken a bizarre dig at Eddie Howe and Newcastle’s Saudi-backed ownership after the head coach was confronted by a Leeds fan over the weekend.
During the game, a Leeds supporter had somehow bypassed security and into the technical area where he approached and pushed Howe before being dragged away and arrested.
Howe came out after the game to describe how taken back he was by the incident and how, looking back, it could have ended a lot worse.
Rushden then made the strange claim that he ‘finds it hard’ for the 45-year-old to ‘moralise about anything’ because of the club’s ties to Saudis Arabia and Howe refusing to comment on the ownership.
It’s another example of someone in the media finding a way to drag the ownership into a scenario that has absolutely nothing to do with them.
The focus should be on the fact that Leeds’ lacklustre security could have resulted in a much more serious incident but, as ever, it has somehow been spun back onto us.
There’s a time and a place to bring the Saudi-backed regime into the conversation. This just wasn’t it. Here’s Max’s baffling exchange with Newcastle fans on Twitter following his controversial rant on the radio:
The two thing are not the same, and no fan should be allowed to do that.
However if you are determined you will get paste security.
Sadly nutting fans invade all teams.
As for the Saudis, the takeover should never have been allowed.
The Prem’ turned them down, but it seems like Balmy Boris intervened, after 2 visits to SA on other matters.
MONEY rules here over integrity and humanity – sad but true.
This could open the flood gates to other Tyrant Regimes.
Natureboy(Quote)
Another woke attention seeking pundit who actually earns a living from the garbage he spouts.
Nobody can use the Saudi’s as an excuse for what was done, he should have walked along the middle of the road in London with his banner like the other stop oil clowns.
You never know they might meet a driverless car that doesn’t know they are there.
Joseph(Quote)
He’s certainly attention seeking.
the ‘woke’ reference is as irrelevant to his attitude as his reference to the KSA was to the incident on Saturday
GoWest!Mag(Quote)