Sevco stand off goes to the wire

The stand-off between Sevco and the SFA has continued today despite Charles Green announcing on Tuesday that a deal would be completed within 24 hours.

Both parties have to save face and are desperate to avoid being blamed if Sevco go into administration.

In public Green has to fall into line with peoples champion Ally McCoist and be battling to preserve the history and trophies won by Rangers.

However with a new company needing SFA membership to stand any chance of survival Green will have to go with whatever he gets from the SFA who have been in the unusual situation of negotiating punishments that have already been handed out to Rangers.

The likely compromise is that Sevco will be given SFA membership tomorrow and won’t be liable for any future penalties and sanctions from the SPL’s enquiry into undeclared payments made through the EBT scheme.

That allows Sevco to start the season at Brechin on Sunday and allows the SPL to retrospectively punish Rangers without any impact on Sevco.

Since the start of the week Green has been talking about agreement with the SFA and SFL with the only outstanding issues connected with the SPL.

As Sevco have already been denied SPL membership their dealings with the SFA don’t involve the SPL.

During the whole saga since Rangers refused to disclose that Craig Whyte had once been suspended from holding a directorship the SFA have been on the backfoot.

Fear of action from UEFA and FIFA will be the main concern for the SFA as they consider Sevco’s application for membership.

If they can satisfy themselves that Green has a credible plan for the club then an agreement will be reached tomorrow with Green claiming that Sevco won’t be punished over the dual contracts issue.

The only certainty is that week by week Green and Sevco will be more closely scrutinised than any other club in the SFA with John Brown and the Rangers supporters more sceptical than anyone else about what motivates the former Sheffield United chief to get involved in a business that traditional Rangers supporting businessman have turned their back on.

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