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Opinion: Sports Direct's bad form has nothing to do with bad press

By Tom Wyatt2016-01-11T14:01:00

Sports Direct issued a profit warning last week

It wasn’t a boycott by Guardian readers that tripped up Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley, but a failure to manage City expectations.

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