Annan warn: Rangers are not a special case
The former South of Scotland club were voted into the SFL in 2008 and have held their own in the Third Division.
Annan replaced Gretna and have demonstrated that good housekeeping creates a sustainable club rather than following the spend spend spend model favoured by Brookes Mileson at Gretna.
Stewart Regan has been at the forefront warning clubs to vote Sevco into the First Division but Annan chairman Henry McLelland won’t be pushed around by the hysterical actions of Regan.
“The SPL are threatening that, without Rangers in Division One, the money would be withdrawn – because they can’t afford to pay,” the Annan’s chairman claimed.
“Annan would get around £60,000 that could disappear. But, if that’s the case then as a club they will deal with it by cutting their cloth accordingly.
“We feel Rangers should be in Division Three and our stance hasn’t changed.”
“When Gretna hit trouble, it was made clear by the SFL then that, for the integrity of the game and the Scottish Football League, Gretna would have to drop into Division Three.
“The same thing happened with Livingston. Rangers are a big institution, but that doesn’t merit them being a special case.”
McLelland added: “The restructuring of the game and the way forward needs to be dealt with separately from the Rangers situation.
“Once the Rangers issue is settled then the clubs need to remain level-headed and move on to make radical changes for the good of the game, but that must be dealt with on its own.”
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