Raging Park's of Hamilton have come out swinging at the SPFL after the league body announced a new deal with online used car seller cinch last night.

Rangers have been unable to provide advertising inventory all season for the £1.6m a year deal due to a contract already in place with the Parks group.

This led to a lengthy controversy that appeared to end when the SPFL moved yesterday to agree a new arrangement that freed the Ibrox club from any obligation to take part.

A Rangers spokesman gave a short statement last night proclaiming the club had been "fully vindicated" in their stance over rule I7, which they had long insisted meant they could opt out of the cinch deal.

And in an all-guns-blazing statement, the company, owned by Rangers chairman Douglas Park, has accused Neil Doncaster's organisation of attempting to bully the club and claims leadership behaviour over the dispute has brought the game "into disrepute".

A spokesperson for Park's said: “We were not surprised to learn from the media announcement last night that the SPFL have finally acknowledged Rangers legitimately engaged rule i7 in June of last year and thus, vindicated the stance held by the club for over a year.  It is not for us to speculate as to why the SPFL leadership sought to ignore their own rules for so long.

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“The fact that the SPFL prevaricated and continued to stall an arbitration process they themselves initiated in August last year, and which was ruled upon by the court of appeal in October, underlined the weakness of the case they truly had. Were it not for our interim interdict, it is clear their strategy was to try and bully one of their members and shareholders; a strategy which they have employed on numerous occasions.

“Throughout the last year, Park’s have kept their counsel as the SPFL leadership insulted us and misled the SFA, their member clubs, their title sponsor, and various other stakeholders in Scottish football.

“We have a long-standing and proud association with Scottish football, and it was entirely wrong that we were compelled to take the SFA to court because the SPFL decided to abuse the SFA’s arbitration process. We believe that the SPFL and members of its leadership have brought the game into disrepute and have failed, as have the SPFL as an organisation, to act with the utmost good faith towards their members.

“The SFA must carry out an independent investigation into this issue which has cost all parties involved hundreds of thousands of pounds. Despite being awarded expenses in court, Park’s will not recover all their legal fees nor be compensated for the reputational damage caused by the SPFL.

“Finally, the glaring omission from the SPFL’s statement was an apology. The SPFL leadership owe their members an apology, they owe Park's an apology, they owe the SFA an apology and they also owe an apology to Rangers. Unfortunately, they seem to lack any accountability and would rather spend their members money than admit their failures.”

We have contacted the SPFL for comment.