http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZW1Y4Lg9yM
WWE owner Vince McMahon has challenged Arsenal’s
majority shareholder Stan Kroenke to a steel cage match after
an embarrassing scheduling screw-up.
Kroenke owns the NBA team Denver Nuggets, who are scheduled to
face the LA Lakers in a home Western Conference final match next
Monday. However, Kroenke Sports Enterprises agreed last August to
rent out the Pepsi Center to the WWE for their televised Raw show -
an arrangement that was confirmed last month with no escape
clause.
As Gabriele Marcotti in The Times points out, it’s the
equivalent of Arsenal renting out the Emirates for a Madonna
concert on the night of the Champions League semi-finals because
they don’t expect to get there.
McMahon, never one to shy away from publicity, refuses to back
down and as well as issuing his joke challenge, he ripped into
Kroenke by saying:
“He should be arrested for impersonating a good businessman,
because he’s not a good businessman.
“I think that the Denver Nuggets fans had a lot more faith in
the team making the play-offs than the owner.
“It’s just not good business not supporting your own team.”
Do Gunners fans want this man to end up running their club or
is Alisher Usmanov suddenly looking like an attractive
alternative?
