Arsenal FC's new football ground to be called "Emirates Stadium"

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From Yahoo Sport

LONDON (Reuters) - Arsenal's new ground at Ashburton Grove will be called the Emirates Stadium after the Premier League champions signed a sponsorship deal with Emirates Airlines worth 100 million pounds.

The Dubai-based airline will have naming rights for the next 15 years at the stadium, which is near Arsenal's current Highbury home and is due to open in 2006 at a cost of 357 million pounds.

Emirates are certainly in a spending mood! First they sponsor Chelsea, and now this!

Can we look forward to Virgin 'Galactic' to sponsor Real Madrid? ;)

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And they sponsor the Referees and officials!

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They are going to sponsor a much more creative team!

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Also bmi are Arsenal's "Official" Airline! So there will be 2 airlines sponsoring Arsenal!

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And they sponsor the Referees and officials!

O/T In Scotland the referees are sponsored by an optician called Specsavers !

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Hehe, yeah some some decisions, the refs need spectacles! :D:D:D

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And they sponsor the Referees and officials!

Swiss referees? :(

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I thought EK sponsor Chelsea FC

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Was just going to say that I thought that!

Apparantly the deal runs out at the end of next year, I imagine Chelsea will have a big 'Roman Abramovich' on their shirts then ;)

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actually Roman Ambramovich sponsering Chelsea isnt that daft at all,Peterborough Utd did it a few years back, i believe its a legal loophole in the tax system.

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Emirates contract runs out with Chelsea next summer and they said they arent going to renew it

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O/T In Scotland the referees are sponsored by an optician called Specsavers !

Allen you crack me up, Emirates sponsor an Australian rules team here in Melb and also a Rugby side in Sydney

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i says if they have the money and want to do it let them!

because the are on eif the richest airlines in the world!

but what will happen if the spend two much? or even on the wrong thing