The Daily Record is refusing to touch the court order that ‘Rangers’ must pay out £444,864.60 in interim legal costs to Sports Direct with their three year kit contract with Hummel being terminated in May with 12 months left to run..
In November 2010 the Glasgow based publisher rushed to share news of a billionaire from Motherwell ready to buy out Dave Murray but as others started to look into yesterday’s latest ruling the Record opted to look the other way.
Last week the Record was the first of the mainstream publishers to reveal that the club will have to pay out ‘many millions of pounds’ in damages to Sports Direct but the latest development with three genuine news stories has been over-looked.
BANG– The club must pay up £444,864.60 by August 16 or directors face IMPRISONMENT!
BOOM– The club won’t be able to wear Hummel/Elite kit at any level, including woman and youth teams, next season.
BOOM BANGA BANG– On September 23 they will find out the full cost of Dave King, Stewart Robertson and James Blair trying to cut out Sports Direct from the 2018 contract giving Sports Direct matching rights.
The consequences could be devastating for a club that lost £14.3m on a turnover of £32.6m in the year to June 2018. The losses of the Gerrard Revolution are likely to be greater.
Rather than manage the story and cast Mike Ashley as the villain of the day the Record’s army of readers will have to discover the news for themselves elsewhere.
Yesterday The Sun carried an interview with former MP Brian Donohue in which he claimed that heads should roll at Ibrox over breaching the Sports Direct contract and that fans should wake up and smell the coffee.
With only the Daily Record in denial it looks like the days of media strangulation of bad news from Ibrox are off the menu with grim reality replacing succulent lamb.
