Keith Hellawell's Sports Direct reign comes to a chaotic end | Nils Pratley

Nobody expected him to tame Mike Ashley but they did expect him to show he was vaguely in the loopNobody would suggest that chairing a public company in which Mike Ashley is the controlling shareholding is easy, but Keith Hellawell, during his nine years in the hot seat at Sports Direct, managed to make things worse – for himself, for the business, and, in some ways, even for Ashley.The defining episodes of Hellawell’s time have been about Sports Direct’s reputation – ter