If Dave King has £3m for Rangers I can think of a much better cause to spend his cash on - Hugh Keevins

It must be great to be Dave King.

To have so much money in the bank you can publicly offer £3million to the club where you used to be chairman to not play a game of football.

And to throw in seven-figure legal costs for wilfully breaking a contract and disrupting an event planned to entertain expatriate Scots, and others, in Australia next November.

Hasn’t this story of the Old Firm and the Sydney Cup now lost all sense of proportion, if it ever had any in the first place?

If Dave has that kind of spare cash I can think of philanthropic causes created by war, and currently being embraced by football fans in this country, that could use his generosity.

There must – there just must – be more important matters to occupy the mind right now than a manufactured cup tournament on the other side of the world.

One that’s commercially-based and aims to profit all concerned.

On the face of it, there’s more chance of a win for Rangers over Barcelona in the Europa League final than there is of peace any time soon in the conflict between the current Ibrox board and the radical wing of its supporter base.

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