Neil Doncaster Q&A over controversial Sky Sports TV deal as SPFL chief’s grilled by Record Sport on 7 talking points

He may have just nailed down the most lucrative TV contract in the history of Scottish football. But SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster was back in the firing line yesterday after finally taking the wraps off a seven year, £150m tie up with broadcast giants Sky.

Targeted by a stinging attack from Rangers last week, Doncaster now stands accused of selling the Scottish game on the cheap when compared to rival leagues across the continent. A long running feud with the Ibrox club led to him ripping up the league’s rule book in order to controversially cut them out of the vote at the 11th hour - and drag the multi-million pound package over the line.

But with 41 of Scotland’s 42 clubs all giving their backing to Doncaster’s deal, has this simmering row with Rangers turned personal and toxic? Our chief football writer Keith Jackson went to Hampden yesterday to find out…

KJ : Some fans have derided this as one of the worst TV deals in Europe. Are they right? Have you sold Scottish football on the cheap?

ND: You only need to ask people like Dave Cormack and Ron Gordon what they think. These are serious, seasoned business people at a world level. Ron has sold a media company - he knows his stuff - and he was one of the key architects of this deal. I would like to pay tribute to the work Ron has done along with Dave, Mark Ogren, John Nelms and Andrew McKinlay in driving forward the review which ultimately underpinned this whole process. To claim that these seasoned business people would be backing and negotiating a ‘dead deal’ is way wide of the mark. You have to question what the motive is behind some of the remarks that have been made. It’s a record breaking deal - the biggest single deal in the 132 year history of the