Win 2 tickets to the aviva premiership rugby final

Love your rugby? Well this is a great chance for you and a friend to win tickets to the Aviva Premiership Final between Sacarences and Leicester at Twickenham this weekend. That’s right, this weekend, so you’d better be be quick.

To enter the competition, simply re-tweet our competition tweet to your Twitter followers.

Win 2 tickets to this weekends Aviva Premiership Final at Twickenham. To enter simply reply to this tweet using hash tag #SFPcomp

The Aviva Premiership Rugby Final takes place on Saturday 28 May 2011 at Twickenham Stadium, where the 2010/11 Aviva Premiership Rugby Champions will be crowned.

The match is world rugby union’s biggest domestic club final, selling out Twickenham Stadium for the last three seasons. Last season’s match was a thrilling encounter, with Leicester Tigers snatching victory over a strong Saracens side with a match-winning try in the dying minutes; the atmosphere was electric as Dan Hipkiss touched down for the winner.

Terms:

• All entrants must be 18 or over
• The competition ends at 10:00 am Friday 27th May 2011
• The winner will be announced on our Twitter feed at 10:30 am Friday 27th May 2011 and also sent a direct message
• The winner must be available to provide contact details that day in order for us to send the tickets
• The e-tickets will emailed at as a PDF attachment, which the winner must print and present at the gate
• The promoter of the competition is Sportswise Ltd
• There is no cash alternative

In the same year the club also enjoyed record turnover, with revenue growing from £313m to £379.9m

A major factor behind the club’s financial success has been the sale of 363 private apartments at Highbury Square, the site of its former ground. The sale of the properties in addition to increased revenues elsewhere has allowed the club to pay off all debt on the Highbury Square property. As a result the overall level of group net debt has now fallen from £297.7m last year to £135.6m.

Arsenal chief executive Ivan Gazidis commented: “The group has made good progress in the last year.”

Matters on the football side have not  been as impressive though. Despite figures being boosted by manager Arsene Wenger’s shrewd dealings in the transfer market, with profit from player trading at £13.6m. Operating profit before depreciation and player trading in the football business was £56.8m, down from £62.7m the year before after wage costs rose.

For more detailed information surrounding Arsenal’s finances the following links are well worth a read:

http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-big-is-arsenals-transfer-budget.html

http://swissramble.blogspot.com/2010/05/does-arsenals-policy-make-sense.html

For many the tournament was something of an anti-climax. Mediocre performances and questionable refereeing decisions lead to a poor World Cup for spectators that did little to improve FIFA’s image, and it seems that the tournament sponsors also suffered mixed results.

Please see the report below for the results:

WorldCupReport