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...
I do wonder how much money would be left in sports if we removed anything which was linked to horrific abuses of human rights.
I’d say my favourite sports to watch are football, golf, snooker, tennis and combat sports. Every single one of them has taken the money, even the ones which moralised against it (the PGA Tour telling everyone how terrible PIF were for starting the LIV league only to cede control to them, tennis abandoning its China boycott despite nothing happening with the Peng Shuai case).
I do wonder how much money would be left in sports if we removed anything which was linked to horrific abuses of human rights.
I’d say my favourite sports to watch are football, golf, snooker, tennis and combat sports. Every single one of them has taken the money, even the ones which moralised against it (the PGA Tour telling everyone how terrible PIF were for starting the LIV league only to cede control to them, tennis abandoning its China boycott despite nothing happening with the Peng Shuai case).