There will be NO explosive dossier from Ibrox shared with SPFL clubs today. A report in the ever-supportive Times gives publication the favoured 48 hours excuse.
The 48 hour delay first appeared in 2011 relating to Craig Whyte’s £30m take-over of the old club to cover for the fact that nothing had changed. Finally, in May 2011 a pound coin was tossed into Dave Murray’s hand.
On April 11 Douglas Park called for the resignations of Neil Doncaster and Rod McKenzie after acquiring evidence from a whistle-blower. The comments came soon after Inverness chief Scot Gardiner shared some of his WhatsApp chats with Radio Scotland’s Sportsound show.
Last Monday the SPFL announced an EGM for May 12 to decide on whether an independent investigation was justified into the vote that gave their board permission to decide the 2019/20 season based on average points per game.
Sounds like tomorrow may be D(ossier)-Day. A full house or a bluff? Vindication or humiliation? https://t.co/aw3aTt7hUD
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) May 4, 2020
Thanks to BBC Scotland and a few other outlets phrases like corruption, bullying and coercion have been banded about with little suggestion that the evidence which has become a dossier might amount to next to nothing.
Yesterday the BBC and other outlets were confident that the ‘dossier’ would surface today but now The Times reports:
Rangers will delay the release of their evidence into alleged wrongdoing by the SPFL hierarchy. The Ibrox club was due to circulate a dossier to the other 41 clubs today in support of its call for an independent probe. The clubs are scheduled to vote on the issue at an extraordinary general meeting next Tuesday.
If there is not 75 per cent support in each of the top two divisions, and the same backing over the bottom two combined, there will be no mandate for an investigation under SPFL rules.
Rangers intend to continue working on their documents and will finalise how they are presented before releasing them over the next 48 hours.
Wrongdoing is quite a climb down from coercion and bullying. With the evidence apparently in their possession since April 11 it seems very suspicious that they need another ’48 hours’ before presenting it to the clubs that will vote next Tuesday on the explosive dossier.
With The Times ‘uncovering’ this story at midnight it can be picked up by the Daily Record and Sun at breakfast time to take to their vast digital audiences.