Peter Lawwell is tipped to return to the Board of the SPFL at next month’s AGM.
Premiership clubs will elect three directors to replace Alan Burrows, Stewart Robertson and Les Gray as they complete their 12 month terms.
The last three months have been the most chaotic that the SPFL has faced with Robertson leading a revolt from Ibrox that called for the suspensions of Neil Doncaster and Murdo MacLennan who sit on the seven strong board.
Over the last five years an unofficial Old Firm alliance has seen directors at Ibrox and Celtic Park stand in alternate years for the SPFL board to ensure that the interests of both clubs are represented on the board.
The recent controversies have strained those relationships with the court action led by Ann Budge and next month’s SPFL AGM ensuring that the problems remain in the spotlight.
Covering the Court of Session hearing on Wednesday and the aftermath for Hearts and Partick Thistle, in the Daily Record Keith Jackson writes:
There is every chance that this uncertainty and rancour will all still be rumbling on in three weeks’time when the SPFL holds its AGM to decide on the make-up of Doncaster’s board for the new campaign. There’s also every chance Celtic’s chief executive Peter Lawwell will be re-appointed to the set-up at that stage, replacing Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson as has become the customary summer boardroom job swap in recent times.
If that happens then Lawwell, who has kept his own counsel throughout this period of? unprecedented unrest, will be dragged into the thick of the fight. He’s unlikely to join in quietly or, for that matter, to feel much in the way of empathy for the two clubs most sorely aggrieved.
While there will be a temptation to even up old scores Lawwell is street-wise enough to realise that now isn’t the time for revolutions. Getting the SPFL 2020/21 season up and running and establishing a new normal will take priority leaving the clubs that lost out to prove themselves in the season ahead.
