Another day another embarrassing commercial own goal for the Sevco High Command.
You can read all about it here.
So, Sevco has been fined £225,000 for keeping the price of replica kits artificially high.
Here is the key judgement from Michael Grenfell, Executive Director of Enforcement at the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA).
He said:
At a time when many people are worried about the rising cost of living, it is important that football fans are able to benefit from competitively priced merchandise.
Instead, Elite, JD Sports and, to some extent, Rangers, worked together to keep prices high.
Today’s decision sends a clear message to football clubs and other businesses that illegal anti-competitive collusion will not be tolerated.
Once more:
“…worked together to keep prices high….”
Not a good look.
It has been the opinion of your humble correspondent that, since the creation of the new club in 2012, the Ibrox klanbase has been treated with something approaching contempt by the inhabitants of the Blue Room.
Indeed, it appears to have been a sine qua non of the Sevco business model.
Supporters of a normal football club would almost certainly be incensed at such a finding.
This chap would indicate that the brethren in the Blue Room have little to worry about.
Dear reader, the deference disease seems incurable amongst the Ibrox klanbase.
Consequently, they constantly authorise all of my harshest assessments of them.
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There was a time when £225k and a report stating “over £2 million” would be reproduced in the sports pages as a £7 million bid.
“…£225,000? I’d like to know how much profit they made ripping their fans off? Was it worth it?
No doubt it will be the holding company’s fault or engine room subsidiary
The fans never except the club can do wrong .
The same fans who no doubt still think we have an empire .
Britain is a huge financial disaster in the making and the lunatics in the stands at Ibrox belt out rule Britannia many who may use food banks or know people who do .
They are like turkeys voting for Christmas
Look at the way it is worded on the BBC website, “Two retailers fined nearly two million pounds”. No mention of sevco’s involvement until you start reading the article! How peculiar.
Exactly, it just shows how biased the BBC is
With a ‘normal’ club,
the Commercial Director would be punted,
and the SFA would throw the book at the dodgy club.
Will either transpire…?
When it comes taking the money from their own fans, again, Rangers mug mugs.