The SPFL has launched a major deflection exercise to cover their failure to punish Rangers (IL) for a decade of cheating.
Yesterday’s whitewash was entirely predictable with loaded questions sent to the in-house QC and a half hearted attempt to conciliate through a new review to see how to deal with a similar situation in future.
In a shameful bid to delude the more gullible of fans the SPFL issued a dummies guide to EBT’s to the media yesterday with the Evening Times, Herald and Daily Record publishing it word for word.
Throughout the publication the officials go at length to confirm that every club, player and fan in the game were cheated for a decade but that the SPL were powerless to punish.
Of the ten questions that the SPFL raise not one refers to fielding ineligible players.
Over the last two seasons Dundee United and Dunfermline have been found guilty of fielding ineligible players with the results reverted to 3-0 defeats. Short and sweet.
United used a player who had been on loan elsewhere earlier in the season, had returned to Tannadice and appeared as a substitute in a win away to Inverness.
Dunfermline fielded a player who was suspended in a Development League match against Motherwell and had a win converted to a 3-0 defeat.
Rangers (IL) didn’t pay players through EBT’s they had secondary contracts liable to income tax and national insurance.
Those payments weren’t registered with the SFA and SPFL, the players were ineligible.
While other clubs get a 3-0 defeat for ineligible players when it involves a club from Ibrox the SPFL go round the houses trying to find ways of avoiding justice.
After yesterday’s lunchtime announcement not one member club has gone public to question the double standards.