Sevco Faces Ashley In Court Tomorrow

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.