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MIKE Ashley today gagged the Rangers board from revealing confidential contract details at tomorrow’s general meeting.

The Sports Direct supremo wheeled a team of highly-paid lawyers into London’s High Court on the back of a Record Sport article.

After we revealed last month that Rangers were tied to Ashley until at least 2022, the billionaire businessman pointed the finger at Dave King and his new Ibrox board for leaking the details.

And he was so worried that King and others would spill the beans on the rest of his hold on the club that he took them to court today, winning an injunction.

Mrs Justice Asplin ruled there was a “great risk” confidential details would be revealed at the meeting Ashley himself called as the board looked to put shareholders in the full picture.

Without an order, the judge said, any breach of existing agreements to keep conversations and conditions secret could do damage to Sports Direct that would be “impossible to quantify”.

Before being dragged into court, Rangers had put up an undertaking not to disclose details from certain contracts.

But today’s order bans them from revealing:

• The existence of any talks, past or future;

• The contents of any discussions including any agreements or arrangements;

• Any information provided by or on behalf of Sports Direct to Rangers.

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Ashley’s lawyer, David Quest QC, said the basis of the Record article on May 27 could only have been from within the Rangers board.

“The only people who should have known are Sports Direct and Rangers. We didn’t tell the Daily Record,” he said.

Mr Quest said, with no outright denial from the club, Sports Direct wanted a legal gag in place ahead of the meeting.

Despite winning their case, the Sports Direct legal team were given a lashing by the judge for the size of the court bill they want cash-strapped Rangers to pick up.

Mrs Justice Asplin said she was “flabbergasted” by the size of the costs claim, which was not revealed in court, and questioned how Ashley’s team had spent so much “on a hearing of this kind”.

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