The Internet is tonight buzzing with the latest out of Ibrox, as a strange – and potentially devastating – item turns up on the roll call for the Chancery Courts tomorrow.
It reads simply “Sports Direct International Plc v Rangers International Football Club.”
The exact nature of the proceedings are a mystery, but at 10:30 tomorrow we’ll find out, and probably sooner as something of this magnitude surely has to be announced to the Stock Market, even if Sevco is no longer being traded there.
It may well be that Mike Ashley is moving to ring-fence season ticket earnings, or it may be something else, but the Chancery courts deal specifically with finance related matters and that rules out legal action over potential defamation or any of the other wonderful legal minefields Dave King has led the club (or is it the company?) into in recent weeks.
We’ve been saying it on this site for a while now; this guy is spoiling for a fight and in Ashley he’s picked the wrong guy to square up to.
Sports Direct probably spends enough on outside legal every year to rebuild the entire crumbling structure that was once Rangers.
If he turns those guns on the club – as looks likely tonight – there will be only one winner.
This comes hot on the heels of MASH’s press release today, where they outlined their case against the King board and their actions so far.
Coincidentally, or maybe not, because with Ashley you just never know, he has also picked this moment to resign from the Newcastle United board of directors, in a move which may well complicate any future “undue influence” case against him.
In a scenario so mind-bending it must have occurred to him, and to his advisors, it also opens up the possibility that Ashley could nominate himself to the Sevco board as one of the two board members Sports Direct is allowed … guaranteeing all manner of fun and games.
On top of all this, the Rangers Supporters Trust released a statement earlier which was so at odds with reality and common sense that Ashley’s legal team and his senior councillors must have been paralysed with mirth.
When your opponents are this dumb – wilfully or otherwise – you can dance rings around them with aplomb, jabbing hither thither and yon without taking a hit yourself.
Life doesn’t get any less interesting if you’re following this circus of fools.
There is more – much more – on this story still to come.
Earlier I wrote a longer piece, going over MASH’s statement, over on On Fields of Green.
You can read it by clicking on the link at the bottom of the page.
But tonight’s breaking news takes us into a new chapter.
Are we on the verge of another administration event?
Are we on the brink of Liquidation II?
Are we seeing the whispy first vapours of what will become Rangers III?
And can you slip into a diabetic coma from too much jelly and ice cream?
The answers are coming.
Brace yourselves.
Here comes the weekend.
Who said the close season didn’t have drama?
Read Billy Get Your Guns – On Field’s of Green’s look at the MASH statement, here.
I see from the number of stars on Lahm’s Bayern shirt that they’re not quite as successful as Sevco, but then again who is? #WorldsMostSuccessfulClumpany
Oh look celtic plc, 1994, raises its mickey head again, looking forward to you’s playing in eurpe again next year, wonder what bye, yous will get through with this year!!!
And I look forward to seeing you in the Petrofac Cup next season.
Wonder who will pump you out of it this year?
Seriously … you need to do better than tell us, through gritted teeth and tear filled eyes, how you are “looking forward” to watching us play in Europe.
You make yourself look a complete walloper.
Oh the pain, the pain, the pain, take an aspirin, your pain is showing big time, enjoy the extended journey.
Rob, i see grammar and spelling are way out your comfort zone, stick to what you know best, dragging your knuckles on the floor
Ashley has your tribute act by the balls you deluded clown and the lying king ain’t got 5 million to pay him off enjoy tomorrows comedy show
you will grasp at any straw to hrow your tiresome insults , wont even rise to the 1994 crap ,you havent got a point just blustering laughable verbal diarrhoia, ask where will you be playing next season, look at celtics position as a well structured organised and viable club , enjoy second division football, the petrofac cup, your crumbling stadium,and the ranjurs men now running towards admin 2, court appearances, looking forward to the new season .
Looks like he means business and has come off the Newcastle board to avoid being accused of joint interest.Think its time to stock up on jelly and icecream as liquidation is again on the horizon surely there cannot be rangers 3.
This reminds me of when that old Torry ”comedian” Bob Monkhouse said on radio:
‘They laughed at me when I said I was going to be a Comedian!’
‘They’re not laughing now!!!’
Goodbye Sevco f.c.
@Rob-the only ‘bye’ we’re interested in is the one which waves gleefully to you as you as you trundle your lard arse out of your seat and onto the packed depression-filled subway with 30 minutes to go, having been humiliated by another nobody on your way to another barren season, and we watch as you lift your bottle of Buckie to your tear-sodden lips and tell the world that you are still the ‘peepil.’ Have a nice season. See you in Europe in the next millennium under another guise. (The Rangers Mark 9)
Jelly n ice cream anyone
Rob or should it be Dob. Rangers are dead, Sevco are on a life support machine and the Lying King won’t save you. Here we go 10 in a row!!!
To think the Sevconians thought:-
Annan no more,
Peterhead no more,
Montrose no more,
METHIL NOOO MOOORRREEE !!!
Ha, get the Texaco road map out again losers because Sveco Mark 2/ aka Rangers Mark 3 is headed for humiliation against the wee teams you can`t find on the satnav.