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I guess I didn’t realize you needed reminding. by NDMike2001

I assume everyone understands and appreciates the moral dilemma of taking oil money. My entire responsive post was premised on that. I spelled it out the second time because you seemed to have ignored it.

The other point is that the petromoney comes from people that use the sport for ulterior motives that have nothing to do with the people in the countries in which they invest.

I’ve never heard anyone claim Tebas was behind the Super League. That seems the laughable comment. If you have support for that I’ll stand corrected.

I did make a comment about parity. But the entirety of my post was about oil money manipulating world soccer.