Former Daily Mirror owner Robert Maxwell had at least one top-level football referee on the newspaper’s payroll in the 1980s while he was chairman of Oxford United.

This is one of the revelations in a new play about Maxwell, written and produced by former Daily Mirror industrial correspondent Terry Pattinson.

The play — titled Maxwell — is being performed in May and follows a successful run earlier this year for a new one-act play about Maxwell, Lies have been told.