The Times has reported Peter Lawwell describing the Ibrox dossier of wrong-doing at yesterday’s SPFL EGM as embarrassing.
Only the member clubs and SPFL Executive were present at yesterday’s conference call but to publish such an allegation The Times will have very solid sources.
Just 13 clubs voted in favour of the motion to hold an independent investigation into the SPFL vote that passed a motion to decide the four divisions based on average points per game.
On April 11 Ibrox interim chairman Douglas Park called for the suspensions of Neil Doncaster and Rod McKenzie based on evidence from a whistle-blower.
The dossier presented to back that claim was released last Thursday but the claims seemed to be watered down to wrong-doing and poor corporate governance.
Covering yesterday’s EGM, The Times reports:
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell defended the SPFL executive during the 42-club Zoom conference and said that, after waiting four weeks for it, the Ibrox club’s dossier of evidence on alleged wrongdoing had been “embarrassing”. SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster later said that he was “very pleased” with the vote result.
During the lead up to the initial vote and yesterday’s EGM Celtic were noted for their silence, no comments, quotes or statement came from the club.
Soon after yesterday’s vote the club issued a statement warning of the grave danger that Scottish football was in and urging clubs to get together to survive the current crisis.
