Arsenal have no plans to cancel their sleeve sponsorship deal with Visit Rwanda following the UK Supreme Court’s ruling that the government’s Rwanda immigration plan is “unlawful”.
No changes are anticipated to the four-year £10million-per-year ($12.5m) deal signed in 2021 with Visit Rwanda, which first appeared on Arsenal shirts in 2018.
When delivering the verdict, Lord Robert Reed, president of the court, said Rwanda “has a poor human rights record”, citing evidence from the UN’s refugee agency. Lord Reed added there was a “real risk” asylum seekers could be sent...
We’re all in r/PremierLeague… remind me again which organisation has the sole power to veto sponsorships or block takeovers?
Yet the fans who actually have no power to do anything just give them a pass and instead point fingers at each other and use horrific human rights abuses purely for the purpose of petty points scoring in football rivalries. While continuing to lap up the product from the group actually profiting from all of this.
Maybe if we aimed all started aiming our content at the Premier League they might have to start thinking twice about letting any old dodgy money into the sport.
We’re all in r/PremierLeague… remind me again which organisation has the sole power to veto sponsorships or block takeovers?
Yet the fans who actually have no power to do anything just give them a pass and instead point fingers at each other and use horrific human rights abuses purely for the purpose of petty points scoring in football rivalries. While continuing to lap up the product from the group actually profiting from all of this.
Maybe if we aimed all started aiming our content at the Premier League they might have to start thinking twice about letting any old dodgy money into the sport.