8 Neil Doncaster controversies as Rangers armageddon prediction, bonkers Betfred Cup and Dundee email spark fury

The very fact the SPFL were embroiled in a row with a member club and league sponsor in the first place was, in a strange way, a positive in itself for the league body.

Neil Doncaster was heavily criticised during a period when him and his team couldn’t find someone willing to pay the money to put their name to the league.

But that is scant consolation after Rangers won their season-long argument over displaying cinch branding.

SPFL chairman Murdoch MacLennan said at the time it was “very disappointing that one of our clubs has not felt able to deliver inventory to cinch".

The Ibrox side, though, argued they had “immediately notified Neil Doncaster” that they would be “unable to provide (cinch) with many of their rights” due to a “pre-existing contractual obligation".

Rangers relied on rule 7.1 in the SPFL rulebook’s section I: “Commercial, broadcast and sponsorship” which states that “a club shall not be obliged to comply” with league rules if it meant “that cub being in breach of a contractual obligation entered into prior to the commercial contract concerned being approved to be entered into” by the SPFL.

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Ibrox chairman Douglas Park’s motor group is of course a rival of cinch and having been forced