Mark Roberts has fired off an angry attack on the SPFL for apparently giving preferred treatment to the two top flight Glasgow clubs.
The former Kilmarnock striker was managing Queens Park until the turn of the year but left no one in any doubt about his feelings over yesterday’s proposal from the SPFL board.
There is little prospect of football being played over the next three months with the SPFL putting forward a proposal that would pay out on prize money and allow clubs to make tentative plans for next season.
That suggestion found no sympathy with Roberts with the Daily Record reporting:
Roberts told Lanarkshire Live Sport : “It’s pathetic; League One is far too close to give Raith a title. Is that fair on Partick Thistle getting relegated from the Championship as well, which is potentially a club killer? It’s not.
If you’re not going to play it I think you should restart the league with a clean slate. I don’t think it’s fair. The Premiership is being treated differently, how is the Premiership different? Because there is more money in the Premiership? F**k the Premiership.
I don’t get it, but it grates on me. If they can get the Premiership games played, why can’t they get the rest of the games played? Is it just cause they have Rangers and Celtic in it? F*** Rangers and Celtic.
It still means just as much to an Airdrie fan or a Falkirk fan as it does to Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, and Hibs. If they aren’t going to play the season out they can’t just say that’s you up. If I’m a player with Airdrie or Falkirk there is no way I’m accepting that.
That’s what you’ve been working from for June last year until now. You’ve worked your b***s off to get to that position where you can go and win a league, it’s not fair. If I was a player, coach or chairman at one of those clubs I’d be bieling.
Clubs have until 5pm tomorrow to vote on the SPFL proposals, Hearts, Partick Thistle and Falkirk have announced their opposition to the plan.
