We are five minutes into the last big Saudi Pro League match before the competition takes a month off for the Arabian Gulf Cup — a biennial competition between eight national sides — when the broadcast editor’s attention is starting to wander from the pitch to the posh seats.
Oh, look, it’s Spike Lee and Will Smith. And Vin Diesel. Wait, is that Michael Douglas?
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Meanwhile, the 55,000 fans in Jeddah’s King Abdullah Sports City stadium have not stopped chanting and dancing. They are perhaps the real stars here, having just put on the best tifo display this world-weary journalist has ever witnessed.
But the product on the grass is… well, a
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