Just one more Premiership club vote is required to sink Douglas Park’s call for another independent investigation into the recent SPFL vote.
It is looking very likely that the Ibrox crusade for democracy will be sunk before the formality of a May 12 EGM by video conference to discuss the issue.
To obtain in independent investigation the proposal needs 75% of the Premiership clubs to vote in favour- last night St Mirren became the first club to announce that they will vote against.
Yesterday Les Gray and Alan Burrows put their names to an open letter from the SPFL which should ensure that Hamilton and Motherwell vote against the call for another investigation.
Hearts are predictably in the Ibrox camp but just one more Premiership vote will ensure another defeat for Park to take on the chins as he attempts to keep the lights on for his business interests.
Preparing The People for yet another failure the Daily Record reports:
Rangers’ plan to put Scottish football’s top brass on trial by independent investigation could be shot down before the next month’s ballot box D-day, it was revealed tonight.
The Ibrox club have teamed up with Hearts and Stranraer to force an extraordinary general meeting of all 42 SPFL clubs – and promised to share a damning dossier of evidence against the suits on Hampden’s sixth floor in advance of the May 12 showdown.
But Record Sport has learned the plan to stage an explosive EGM could now collapse if enough clubs opt to reject it by posting proxy votes in advance of the scheduled date.
Also, we can reveal the SPFL’s controversial emergency measures to bring an early end the top flight season by crowning Celtic champions could still be legally and technically implemented before then – regardless of the call for an inquiry into its surrounding circumstances.
Although a source told us: “The two issues are entirely unrelated. On that legal basis, It is entirely feasible that a decision could be made to end the season before the EGM on May 12.
“But, given all the furore over this it would seem unlikely the SPFL would want to go down that road. The first objective here will be to gather the votes either on May 12 or those that are sent in early by proxy.”
Those votes could start dropping into the SPFL’s inbox from Wednesday morning and the Rangers requisition – which demands a wide ranging probe into the conduct of the league’s board during the coronavirus crisis – needs the support of 75 per cent of Scotland’s clubs in order for it to be rubber-stamped and driven through.
Stranraer are the third club to have backed the EGM call, to be successful the motion needs backed by 75% of clubs in the Premiership (9), Championship (8) and combined League One and Two (16).
