‘Snake oil salesman’ ‘Extravagant petrol head’ ‘more partners than Katie Price’ Keith Jackson’s incredible attack on key Ibrox executive

Keith Jackson has issued an incredible attack on James Bisgrove. 

The Ibrox Commercial guru has secured a number of virtually worthless deals such as with Sportsmongo, Tomket Tires, Bitci and a variety of others that are on the Castore shirt. 

Bisgrove has been paid commission on every deal from a diverse group of business partners, it seems that Jackson has got upset that the smooth talking commercial chief drives around in a high performance sports car. 

So far Bisgrove has been portrayed as a high achiever with the Daily Record celebrating every new commercial deal with little detail on how much money it will actually bring in to the club. 

Now, after Dave King was excluded from the 10th Anniversary, Jackson has hit out at Bisgrove for taking the Ibrox brand to Australia to play a friendly against Celtic adding some personal opinions on the Ibrox Commercial Director.

James Bisgrove must be doing something right. No, seriously, hear me out here. 

The man in charge of commercial and marketing strategies at Ibrox may seem like a snake oil salesman to those of us with an untrained eye but then we don’t drive a McLaren super-car to the office so it stands to reason Bisgrove can’t be half as daft as he looks. 

And yet somehow this extravagant petrol-head has also managed to drive a wedge between his club and its supporters – or let’s call them customers – at a moment in time when the bond between the boardroom and the stands ought to be unbreakable given all they’ve been through together over these past 10 tumultuous years. 

By secretly signing off on a controversial plan to take the Old Firm derby Down Under, Bisgrove has cemented his status as a man who would happily sell anything that’s not nailed down without stopping to consider the cost of any reputational damage which might be incurred along the way. 

Not content with dressing players up like human billboards, having given away sponsorship packages for everything apart from the soles of their socks, Bisgrove is responsible for lumbering Rangers with more partners than Katie Price but, curiously, without making any kind of material dent in the club’s financial misfortunes. 

It’s quite a trick to sell off so much and yet for the proceeds to remain almost completely unnoticed – especially when it’s being orchestrated by a man whose garish, bright blue motor costs more than the average Glasgow house. 

Jackson has gone very personal here, it remains to be seen if the Ibrox PR machine respond to a detailed attack on a key executive.