This sure feels like football’s uber-capitalist end game: ludicrously overpaid, ageing players operating at half pace in the sweaty heat of plastic bowl stadia to the entertainment of roughly nobody watching live
Roughly in the middle of the main stand of the Prince Faisal bin Fahd Stadium, opposite the TV gantry, a group of 150 or so Al-Riyadh supporters form a small clump and, in their defence, try and make as much noise as possible. Roughly a hundred yards to their left, a hub of Al-Ettifaq fans watch their team lose 1-0.
“There is a professional Saudi soccer league that is wildly popular among Saudis,” is the site’s second claim, a sentence that you’d struggle to beat for powerful energy. “Friends and families often gather to cheer on their favorite teams, both on television and in stadiums.”-rebranded power grab, it’s fair to assume that most of the friends and families who have gathered to cheer on their favourite teams have gone for the television option, if at all.
Even the western media that frothed over a potential power shift has largely lost interest, save ESPN tweeting after every.
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