How 'Agege Bread' Initiates Arsenal's Lawsuit

Arsenal is suing a corporate box holder at the Emirates Stadium for £375,000 (N97,382,500) after an alleged bust up over unsliced bread.

The Premier League leaders have launched a High Court writ against Capstone Sports Management amid claims it stopped paying for executive seats after Arsenal staff refused to slice bread the company’s guests had brought into the box.
Gunners staff was also allegedly ‘reprimanded’ after guests in Box 48 were allowed to order in their own packed lunch for a match in December 2011.

Executive boxes at the Emirates start from £86,400 (N22,436,910) a season and promise guests ‘the ultimate VIP hospitality experience… watching football being played the Arsenal way’.

It is claimed Capstone, founded in 2007 by barrister Samuel Okoronkwo, was due to pay £465,000 (N120,754,200) in instalments for its box until 2016 but stopped paying in April 2012 after saying Arsenal has ‘promised… but failed to take any proper action’ over the sandwich incident.

The club says it received a letter from Capstone’s lawyers stating the company had stopped payments because the club had ‘promised… but failed to take any proper action’ about the packed lunch incident that took place during a match in December 2011.

Capstone denies Arsenal’s claims, while Arsenal’s lawyers refute the service provided ‘was deliberately compromised’ or that it ‘failed to take any proper action in relation to Capstone’s complaint’.

A club spokesman said Arsenal would make no further comment as court proceedings are on-going. 

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