Tom English has added his suspicions to the controversy over the Dundee vote on the SPFL proposal to finalise the placings in the bottom three divisions.
The BBC reporter thinks that it’s ‘Funny how the email with the vote didn’t land first time but the one cancelling it did’.
Since details were announced of the vote on Friday BBC Scotland have only been interested in trashing the opinion of 33 of the 42 SPFL clubs.
To assist this Scot Gardiner of Inverness Caley Thistle was invited on to Sportsound on Saturday afternoon where he shared the details of his Whatsapp chat with two other clubs. Votes were cast in the real world not Gardiner’s phone.
As soon as the show was over we had the choreographed message from Ibrox with Douglas Park making a number of allegations and calling for the suspension of CEO Neil Doncaster.
Since being challenged to produce the evidence to back the allegations there has been silence from Park, suggesting that he has nothing more to put on the table beyond Gardiner’s Whatsapp messages.
English in common with virtually everyone at BBC Scotland has taken Gardiner as the last authority on the matter with the Inverness chief appearing to have a significant personal stake in the issue.
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Yesterday Radio Scotland continued the discussion with some in-depth chat with special guests Neil McCann and Steven Thompson. No questions were asked about secondary contracts, ineligible players and awarding 3-0 results against clubs that didn’t register full payment details with the SPL and SFA.
So, Dundee voted, the vote got held up somehow. In the meantime, they emailed to cancel the vote. The vote then landed and was deemed irrelevant. Funny how the email with the vote didn’t land first time but the one cancelling it did.
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) April 12, 2020
I was on the radio for two hours yesterday saying it
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) April 12, 2020
Reading the document supplied by @Kheredine2018 I don’t think it actually would have mattered if they received Dundee’s vote. It’s worded in a way which means the vote only fails if they’ve not received enough yes votes within 28 days, and no voters can change to yes
— Hearts Stats (@heartsstats) April 12, 2020
Nah
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) April 12, 2020
E-mails can get held up. The suggestion is that it was blocked at either Dundee’s end of the SPFL’s end due to the type of attachment. The e-mail would get put in a held queue until it was manually checked and released.
— Jonny Mulgrew (@JonnyBhoy89) April 12, 2020
