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...
Can’t read the article but relating the two for a story is so ridiculously forced. If you want to criticise the sponsorship more broadly like people do with Gulf sponsors, sure.
But relating this ruling to the sponsorship is dumb and just for clicks on a trending topic. The UKs role in this is just as gross, if not more so. We are the ones pursuing it! Should Arsenal cut ties with its own country?
Can’t read the article but relating the two for a story is so ridiculously forced. If you want to criticise the sponsorship more broadly like people do with Gulf sponsors, sure.
But relating this ruling to the sponsorship is dumb and just for clicks on a trending topic. The UKs role in this is just as gross, if not more so. We are the ones pursuing it! Should Arsenal cut ties with its own country?