Mike Ashley launches tirade against Sports Direct shareholders

Founder says shareholders stabbed him in the back and hounded his former chairmanMike Ashley, the billionaire founder and chief executive of Sports Direct, has accused the retailer’s shareholders of stabbing him in the back and “repeatedly hounding” former chairman Keith Hellawell.In a lengthy rant issued via an offiical statement to the stock market, Ashley said: “It is blatantly apparent that true entrepreneurs will never be accepted in the public arena. The media circu