Official Rangers partner blasts ‘absolute buffoon’ Neil Doncaster over lack of apology amid SPFL sponsorship row
Four Lads Had A Dream slammed SPFL chief Neil Doncaster as an “absolute buffoon” who is “unfit for office” after the sponsorship row with Rangers ended.
The Light Blues have received an apology from the league and a contribution towards their legal costs after the long-running dispute was finally resolved over the club’s refusal to participate in the cinch sponsorship, deal due to their pre-existing relationship with Park’s of Hamilton.
An independent review into the matter will now be commissioned [Sky Sports, 14 July], but a report in the Glasgow Times by Graeme McGarry notes that the apology to Rangers came from chairman Murdoch MacLennan while CEO Doncaster held back.
Reacting to the news on Twitter Four Lads posted that quote and said: “‘Doncaster himself stopped short of apologising to Rangers, expressing only his regret at any damage to their reputation’.
“Doncaster is an absolute buffoon, incompetent and unfit for office.
“Well done Rangers for taking it all the way.”
Embarrassing
It is a positive development for Rangers to finally be vindicated in what was ultimately a needless dispute that Doncaster could have avoided.
He was warned ahead of time that the deals wouldn’t work in conjunction but he pushed the cinch agreement through regardless.
Having been found to be in the wrong an apology shouldn’t be that difficult, but while MacLennan managed to come up with one Doncaster did not.
It surely weakens his position at the league but given the recent revelations that the 53-year-old has a “highly unusual” two-year notice period in his current role [The Herald, 27 June] an exit looks complicated for the SPFL.
Heart & Hand Podcast had branded the league CEO “utterly shameless” when that contract news came out, suggesting that the arrangement was there in order to prevent his removal.
And with his current salary taken into account it would cost the SPFL around £800,000 over that notice period before he went.
In other Rangers news, a multimillion pound first-team exit is now imminent as a Gers ace was spotted in his prospective new home town.