Les Gray has dismissed the paranoid claims from Ibrox as complete nonsense.
While the Ibrox club hide behind club statements, supporter updates and carefully planted stories with publishers and broadcasters the Hamilton director went live on Radio Scotland’s Sportsound show on Sunday afternoon.
Gray is a former Rangers season-ticket holder but his priority now is the survival of Hamilton Accies and the professional game in Scotland.
With another supposed title challenge reduced to rubble new Ibrox chairman Douglas Park is tasked with funding another rebuilding project while plugging a £10m funding gap for this season.
All sorts of accusations have been pouring out of Ibrox from claims about bullying and coercion through to the mystery evidence of a whistle-blower. That claim was made soon after Inverness Caley Thistle CEO Scot Gardiner shared his WhatsApp chats on Radio Scotland.
Yesterday Gray, one of three Premiership club representatives on the SPFL board, was extensively questioned by the BBC.
Covering the Sportsound interview the Daily Record reports:
A lot of this is my view, but I’m speaking as an SPFL board member also. I feel quite strongly about some of the stuff that was said. I’ll be open to conversation, hopefully I’ll answer any questions, I won’t hide behind anything.
The first thing that is important to me is addressing the bullying and coercion accusations that have been levelled at the board.
The amount of personal abuse and the vitriol that the board members – in particular the executive, Neil, Rod (McKenzie) and Murdoch (MacLennan) – have had to put up with is really unacceptable, because we’re talking about football here.
These people’s lives, in some cases, have been put under threat. I don’t mean life threats, but it’s not fair what’s happening to them. They’re being singled out. In terms of the allegations of bullying, I think its simply complete nonsense.
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Strangely the SFA have yet to charge Park with not acting in the best interests of the Scottish game, the Lanarkshire businessman is also a shareholder in Hamilton Accies.
Ibrox Managing Director Stewart Robertson is also on the SPFL board.
