The Daily Record has described the corporate governance of the SPFL as a shameful blight.
Sitting on their board is Stewart Robertson, Managing Director at Ibrox. Last night another vague statement was released, playing to the gallery with hints and suggestions but absolutely nothing of substance unless ‘continue to examine all legal options available’ has some hidden meaning.
Every year the SPFL has elections to join their nine strong board. Six board members are elected from the clubs with three coming from the Premiership.
Robertson was elected on board at the start of this season alongside the Lanarkshire duo of Les Gray and Alan Burrows. Gray is a life-long Ibrox with a history deep in season-tickets and hospitality.
Robertson and Gray are in at the heart of SPFL policy, they shape it alongwith seven others. Neither has raised a word of complaint or concern about their fellow directors or any SPFL procedure.
Despite the presence of Robbo on the SPFL board the Ibrox club have produced three highly critical statements/supporter updates with the Daily Record publishing their follow up this morning.
After a character assassination of Dundee chief John Nelms in today’s Record, Gary Ralston turns his anger on the board of the SPFL, including Robertson:
Raised in Texas, the land of cowboys, he’s the patsy – but has been played like a campfire fiddle by an SPFL executive about whom serious questions should now be asked by member clubs, not just Rangers.
The corporate governance of the SPFL has been woeful, their arrogance and disdain for member clubs a shameful blight for an organisation that should exist for the many, not just the very chosen few.
Scottish football deserves absolute and independent scrutiny of events surrounding the whole fiasco of the controversial resolution to end the season early as the only way to distribute a prize pot of £9 million to cash strapped clubs.
In particular, events around the vote last Friday night that gave Nelms his release clause to shaft Inverness and Partick Thistle deserve more than just a glib line in an official statement.
With Robertson sitting on the board of the SPFL the Ibrox side are hugely compromised, unless they are acknowledging that their MD has all the clout of a tailor’s dummy.
No other club has formally questioned the corporate governance of the SPFL. It is now widely acknowledged that in Company Law you can change your vote from Reject to Accept.
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Every slight on the SPFL bounces straight back into the boardroom at the top of the marble staircase, landing at the feet of Ibrox ‘supremo’ Stewart Robertson.