Gunners fail to get their ducks in a row as Vietnam trip turns into PR disaster

Arsenal in Vietnam

By Mark Baber
August 14 – A campaign by fans of Arsenal football club to focus attention on the land grabbing and forest destroying activities of the club’s partner in South East Asia hit the UK’s main BBC news yesterday. The club’s recent tour of Vietnam, at which club officials including Arsenal’s executive director Keith Edleman, marketing director Angus Kinnear, and manager Arsene Wenger were pictured with HAGL’s Vietnamese tycoon owner Doan Nguyen Duc, has turned into a PR disaster.

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