Report claims Rangers have not broken SPFL rules, suggests campaign against club
Rangers have not broken any SPFL rules after refusing to display ‘cinch’ sponsorship at Ibrox on Saturday, according to The 4th Official.
The report claims page 113, rule 17.1 on ‘Commercial Contracts, Broadcasting and Transmission’ in the SPFL rule book provides an exception for the Gers not showing the sponsor on their shirts or in the stadium.
The 4th Official’s story adds: “The fact is that Rangers are legally allowed to not display branding by cinch and there is nothing much the SPFL can do. The rest is an attempt to get Rangers to do what they want by driving up media hysteria and the ire of other clubs at Rangers.”
Rangers agenda?
Once again it appears that the SPFL’s argument is not as watertight as they might think it is.
Perhaps they thought the Gers would bow down to them and immediately accept wrongdoing, but the club appears adamant that they are perfectly within the rules, and this latest report from The 4th Official appears to back them up, with a pointing finger to the SPFL’s own rulebook.
No doubt there will be some sort of fightback against this argument, but it looks like the SPFL have been defeated by themselves, and the Rangers hierarchy are unlikely to feel sympathy after what appeared to be a rather brisk and unfriendly media campaign being stirred up against them on Monday evening.
Several Scottish news outlets published reports containing quotes from senior sources within and around the SPFL, with the Daily Record carrying words from “an anxious top-flight chief executive”, who called it a “hugely embarrassing situation”, and expressed fears that cinch may pull the plug on a seven-figure deal.
Any attempt to force Rangers to back down looks set to fall flat on their face, though, with the rulebook seemingly backing up the Gers.
In other Rangers news, the Gers have sparked seven-figure crisis talks as Premiership CEO expresses his major fears.