Our favourite hypocrite (see below) journalist Oliver Holt says that Newcastle United will be relegated.
This comes as Matthias Jaissle and his players prepare for the resumption of Premier League hostilities after this latest international break.
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Oliver Holt is Chief Sports Writer at The Mail on Sunday.
The Mail asking ten of their journalists which clubs they think will go down this season.
An interesting response to the question as they each gave their three predictions.
As the other nine journalists voted as followed:
9 Coventry
6 Crystal Palace
5 Ipswich
4 Hull
2 Sunderland
1 Manchester City
As for Oliver Holt though, he answered: “Newcastle United, Coventry City, Ipswich Town. I still think that Newcastle will get sucked into trouble. And I think that the inexperience of their manager will cost them when things get tight.”
Zero surprise that he was desperate to make it all about Newcastle United, you can smell the desperation from him for United to go down.
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His embarrassing attacks on Newcastle United, the NUFC fans and Eddie Howe down the years had been beyond belief since the takeover.
Oliver Holt putting himself forward as some great moral champion against the ownership of Newcastle United, despite other comments he’d made previously about Saudi Arabia, as well as the ownership of other clubs, not to mention the organisation that pays his wages…
If journalists are so disgusted with where money comes from when it comes to Premier League clubs, then surely they couldn’t work for any employer who does business with any such country/regime that they disapprove of…
In February 2015, Oliver Holt changed jobs, he moved from the Daily Mirror to the Mail on Sunday, Holt’s new employers were/are DMGT (Daily Mail and General Trust).
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Oliver Holt took this job eleven years ago, fully aware (unless he is thick and idle) that his new employers make a significant proportion of their profits from their business dealings with the Saudi Arabia state.
Then he has been happy to pick up massive wages for twelve years and counting from his bosses who have been actually trading in Saudi Arabia for a long long time.
Why does Oliver Holt not have a problem with this? Why does Oliver Holt always ‘forget’ to mention where his company generates fortunes from every single year, money that ultimately helps pay his wages? Surely only a shameless hypocrite would do this time after time? Somebody with zero morals who doesn’t care where the money comes from to help pay his wages and everybody else who works for DMGT.
You can’t have it both ways.
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DMG Events organise numerous events in Saudi Arabia year after year such as ‘Big 5 Saudi’.
Of course, there are plenty of other embarrassing skeletons in the Oliver Holt cupboard that he wishes would just disappear, include these classics…
Oliver Holt – 7 December 2019 in The Mail:
‘When the UK government trades with the Saudis, it is hard to blame Hearn and Joshua for taking their money, too.’
Oliver Holt had this to say on likes of Chelsea and Man City back in 2011:
