Arsenal and NFL fans unite in rage as Stan Kroenke makes appearance at LA Rams match
dailystar.co.ukNFL and football.Kroenke was in Florida on Sunday to watch the LA Rams beat Tom Brady’s Tampa Bay Buccaneers 30-27 to reach the NFC Championship game.It took a dramatic late 30-yard field goal from Matt Gay for the visitors to knock out last year’s champions and clinch a dramatic win.Kroenke, who owns the Rams as well as Arsenal, will now see his franchise host the San Francisco 49ers at the SoFi Stadium on Sunday for a place in the Superbowl.A perfect weekend for the 74-year-old billionaire, then?
Maybe, provided he doesn’t have the urge to search his name on social media.Kroenke has always been a hugely controversial figure in American sports, where he has alienated supporters of NBA team Denver Nuggets, NHL side Colorado Avalanche and Colorado Rapids of MLS, who all fall under his Kroenke Sports & Entertainment umbrella.LA Rams fans might not mind, considering their success this season, but in general NFL fans are not keen on Kroenke.There are multiple reasons behind that antipathy, but the biggest one is his decision to move the Rams from St Louis in Missouri to California in 2015.That was extremely messy, and what Kroenke might term his hard-nosed business sense, but what his detractors would call money-focused heartlessness, has made him the NFL’s bogeyman.It’s fair to say that Arsenal fans are also not keen on the American, who has left the running of the club to his son, Josh, and not invested as much as supporters would like.The 0-0 draw against Burnley, which left Arsenal winless in five games in 2022 and without a goal in four, heightened anti-Kroenke sentiment further.On Sunday those two sub-genres of unhappy sports fans convened on Twitter to berate Kroenke, who was pictured in Tampa in an executive box.
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