Sunday Mirror

Kagame of 2 halves

Rwandan president and Gunners fan gutted by Brentford result

- BY KAREN ROCKETT

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 on Twitter 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”

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 to 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... scoops@sundaymirr­or.co.uk

 ??  ?? SPONSOR Bukayo Saka in shirt with sleeve logo
SPONSOR Bukayo Saka in shirt with sleeve logo
 ??  ?? FURIOUS Mr Kagame
FURIOUS Mr Kagame

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