The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) has raised concerns that infomercials on betting are being used to promote football, Ray Winstone and other unsavoury addictions. The fear is that supporting West Ham Utd could become ‘normalised’, [read...]
Market analysts suspect that the 60% reduction in profits at Sports Direct may be related to them having no employees at all actually dealing with shoppers. Studies have shown that the skeleton staff are instead employed to stand on very tall ladders putting replica Premiership football shirts out of reach, [read...]
Newcastle United owner Mike Ashley is the bookies favourite to win Sports Direct Personality of the Year for the 34th consecutive time. After a rare public appearance before MPs on the business, innovation and skills committee, [read...]
‘It’s quite simple,’ Ashley said today, ‘Rafa will give me a call each Monday morning and I’ll tell him how many hours he needs to come in to work. If it’s a quiet week with no mid-week games, [read...]
‘On paper Hughton looked strong, and he never gave the club less than 110%,’ explained Newcastle owner Mike Ashley. ‘But at the end of the day he’d neither been ‘sick as a parrot’ nor ‘over the moon’ for months. [read...]
