Sports Direct owner Mike Ashley has offered to pay off his £605 million tax bill in Belgium with stock of equivalent value from his UK stores, it has been revealed today. Details remain sketchy at this stage but the deal is thought to comprise around a billion pairs of Lonsdale trainers, [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...]
Looking remarkably sprightly for her age, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II publicly celebrated her 153rd birthday yesterday accompanied by her titled, 58-year-younger, toy-boy playboy lover-and-husband who also happened to be celebrating his 90th birthday. ‘The age gap, [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...]
