Just when Arsenal thought it couldn’t get any worse after their season-opener humbling, Rwanda president and Gunners fan Paul Kagame has stuck the boot in.
President Kagame vented after Premier League new boys Brentford – absent from the top flight for 74 years – waltzed to a 2-0 victory
Arsenal boss Mikel Arteta admitted his team were awful. And President Kagame agreed.
“We just must NOT excuse or Accept mediocrity,” he raged after Friday night’s game. “A team has to be built with purpose to win win win.”
“I am sure we all know on whose shoulders the heaviest burden rests.”
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More furious tweets followed, including a demand for a plan to turn the club around after years of stagnation.
He wrote: “The game aside Arsenal and the fans don’t deserve to kind of get used to this....NO !!! I say this as one of the big fans. Change has taken too long to come!”
The Rwanda tourist board has a controversial £30million sponsorship deal with the Gunners, under which a “Visit Rwanda” logo is displayed on the shirt sleeves.
Critics are unhappy that the leader of a poor country is subsidising a rich club.
But Rwanda has begun to recover from the genocide of the 1990s.
The World Bank has praised its “remarkable development successes”.
Arsenal, take note...
