Profile: Marcus Rashford – Crusading forward reflecting Premier League’s commitment to good causes
Alamy | Last year, with the summer holidays coming, Marcus Rashford wrote an open letter to the government urging them to step in to provide meals to the country’s neediest children. After resisting these calls, the government backed down and paid the £120 million cost, something they reluctantly repeated during the October half term. On this picture the Manchester United player is saluted by local street artists.
Rashford’s campaigning for good causes reflects unacknowledged commitment by all Premier League clubs to good causes.
Premier League clubs’ average commitment of total pre-tax profit to their foundations was 25.4 per cent – 11 times the FTSE 100 average.
Off The Pitch research shows equivalent of 1.93 per cent of EPL turnover went to clubs’ charitable foundations.
Overseas fans increasingly lured by clubs’ social values.
2 March 2021 - 6:44 PM
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