SFA take backseat in Ibrox investigation

The SFA have confirmed that they will wait on the outcome of an internal Ibrox investigation into links between Charles Green and Craig Whyte before they take any action on the associate membership granted to the new club.

After exhaustive talks with the football authorities a 5-way agreement was drawn up allowing Green’s club to compete in the Third Division.

The document has never been published but it’s believed that the deal was dependent on guarantees that Whyte had no role in the new club.

That undertaking was thrown into doubt when Whyte released tapes of his conversations with Green during which the big handed Yorkshireman uttered the phrase ‘You are Sevco’ to the former billionaire from Motherwell.

The SFA contacted Ibrox following the publication of the reports but are content to take a backseat allowing the club to investigate it’s own tangled ownership.

SFA Chief Stewart Regan admitted today: “We wrote to the club and expressed our concerns on a number of points related to the revelations in the press about the links between Craig Whyte and Charles Green.

“The matter was then handed over to Pinsent Masons under the stewardship of Roy Martin QC and we have agreed that we will wait until that report is concluded.

“The report is being done very much on an independent basis. The club have agreed to share the findings of that report with us so that we can get transparency on the questions that we asked.

“And until that comes out it’s probably wrong to speculate on what might or might not happen.”

No date has yet been set for the independent panel to report back on their findings into the links between Green and Whyte.