Funding already in place for Judicial Review

Funding for the Judicial Review into Scottish football has been secured without any need for crowd funding.

The numerous issues relating to hoe the SPFL and the SFA have governed the game in recent years have been questioned from the outside with the reaction to last month’s Supreme Court ruling on Rangers’ dual contracts confirming suspicions.

As well as the shady actions of 2012 chiefly around the Five Way Agreement the subsequent cover up and twisting of the rules are under scrutiny.

The complete failure to take action on a decade of fielding ineligible players has confirmed for many that different rules apply to clubs from Ibrox.

While other clubs have 3-0 defeats awarded against them for paperwork failings Rangers (IL) fielded players paid through secondary contracts that hadn’t been declared to the football authorities.

HMRC are now dealing with the income tax, national insurance, interest and penalties from that issue but the SFA and SPFL have attempted to park the issue.

While there are many other issues worthy of review sticking to the matter of fielding ineligible players is believed to be the focus of the Judicial Review.