{"id":141179,"date":"2020-04-22T02:46:52","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2020\/04\/22\/bein-sports-asks-premier-league-to-block-saudi-newcastle-deal-over-piracy\/"},"modified":"2020-04-22T02:46:52","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T00:46:52","slug":"bein-sports-asks-premier-league-to-block-saudi-newcastle-deal-over-piracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=141179","title":{"rendered":"BeIN Sports asks Premier League to block Saudi Newcastle deal over piracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar-based broadcaster has written to chairmenCites pirate network causing \u2018huge damage\u2019 to revenuesThe Premier League has been asked to block a Saudi-backed consortium\u2019s attempt to purchase Newcastle by one of the league\u2019s major media partners due to concerns over pirate broadcasts. The north-east club are reportedly on the verge of being sold to a sovereign wealth fund which involves crown prince Mohammed bin Salman for around \u00a3300m.However, Qatar-based broadcaster beIN Sports has said Saudi Arabia should be held to account for its involvement in a pirate network which illegally broadcasts Premier League matches. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2020\/apr\/22\/bein-sports-asks-premier-league-to-block-saudi-newcastle-deal-over-piracy\" target=\"_blank\">BeIN Sports asks Premier League to block Saudi Newcastle deal over piracy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar-based broadcaster has written to chairmenCites pirate network causing \u2018huge damage\u2019 to revenuesThe Premier League has been asked to block a Saudi-backed consortium\u2019s attempt to purchase Newcastle by one of the league\u2019s major media partners due to concerns over pirate broadcasts. The north-east club are reportedly on the verge of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141179\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}