Bill Leckie has slammed the Ibrox dossier as a water pistol where a smoking gun had been promised.
The veteran Sun reporter is certainly no friend of Celtic or Celtic supporters but today he hits the nail on the head as he provides a rare critique of the Ibrox dossier.
Led by Radio Scotland the public had been led to expect a dynamic dossier crammed with factual events illustrating examples of bullying and coercion behind the scenes to get the SPFL to call the season based on average points per game.
The dossier does contain vague allegations against Alloa and Dunfermline but tellingly, the clubs under attack, Inverness Caley Thistle and Dundee, didn’t back the Ibrox motion calling for an independent investigation. That duty fell to Hearts and Stranraer.
Since inception in 1998 Leckie has championed the smaller clubs taunting the Esspeel before it merged with the Scottish Football League but in The Sun he stands by the league authority in the face of the prolonged Ibrox campaign.
All of which would be fine if we came away thanking them for repeating themselves, seeing as it was all so damn explosive we couldn’t take it in the first time. But no.
As if it isn’t enough they drone on for so long the reader ends up with a ZZ Top beard — with the emphasis on ZZZZ — there’s also absolutely hee-haw in there that changes anything we thought we already knew.
They boasted of having proof of threats against member clubs, but they haven’t produced a word of it. All they can say is that it’s alleged that Caley Thistle and Dundee were told it would cost them financially if they voted No – but if that’s the case then let those two speak up for themselves.
They say “several clubs” have advised them of information they’d like to disclose on the same subject, but only within an independent investigation because of “the fear of recriminations” — but if that’s true, then surely the clubs involved are the ones holding the smoking gun?
SPFL chairman Murdoch MacLennan is expected to come out today with a detailed response to the dossier and defence of the SPFL board.