All 12 Scottish Premiership clubs are set for a Hampden summit next month to discuss the SPFL’s sponsorship row with Rangers.
They’ll all meet at Hampden on Monday, 28 November after the Ibrox club requested a meeting to go over the events that led up to the governing body agreeing its title sponsorship with car company cinch last June, according to the Daily Mail. All of the country’s 42 professional clubs were warned by Gers managing director Stewart Robertson that the £150,000 of lawyers costs racked up by the dispute are likely to rise even higher.
Robertson claimed that figure only covered the period leading up to the end of last season. The final bill is set to come out of SPFL income and that the total cost could be approaching seven figures should Rangers and Parks of Hamilton receive an apology from the SPFL and be awarded their own legal costs.
The Light Blues claimed last season that they were unable to honour the agreement with cinch due to an existing agreement with Parks of Hamilton, owned by Rangers chairman Douglas Park, who are cinch competitors in the used car market. A revised deal with cinch was reached earlier this year, which meant that Rangers were no longer obligated to display cinch’s branding, which they have been refusing to do either inside their stadium or on their kit.
TV interviews are conducted in front of a blank background. Gio van Bronckhorst famously appeared at Fir Park in front of a cinch branded backing board that had been taped over.
Rangers have previously slammed the SPFL’s governance publicly. The Ibrox club wanted chief executive Neil Doncaster and chairman Murdoch MacLennan out.
They claim they have been “fully vindicated” by events and will meet their 11 top flight rivals to share their concerns over the cinch deal, while the SPFL are also confident they have done no wrong, but are bound by confidentiality agreements. A number of clubs are understood to be angry at Rangers’ attempt to use their vote for the recent £30million Sky TV deal as leverage in an attempt to force the league governing body.
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