Tottenham LGBTQ+ supporter group plan protest against Saudi owners ahead of Newcastle clash

Tottenham’s leading LGBTQ+ supporters’ group has organised a protest against Newcastle’s Saudi Arabian owners ahead of Sunday’s Premier League meeting.

Newcastle are majority owned by Saudi’s Public Investment Fund, which is chaired by the state’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman.

Members of the LGBTQ+ community face severe repression in the Gulf State, which operates under a framework of Sharia law, while the country was fiercely criticised last month for executing 81 men in one day.

Lilywhite Spurs will display a banner on Tottenham High Road ahead of Sunday afternoon’s match and release 81 balloons, one for each of the executed prisoners.

“Football clubs are important cultural and heritage assets and their use as shields for regimes that murder their citizens, jail their LGBTQ+ community and cause atrocities is something we want to keep a focus on, so this is never allowed to happen again,” read a statement from Lilywhite Spurs.

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