Jim Traynor is threatening to expose the dirty linen of the SPFL as he attempts to drum up interest in his new career as a podcaster.
The former Daily Record sports chief has cut an increasingly bitter and out of touch figure over the last decade with his domination of opinion under attack from pesky nerds and bampots with keyboards that have been able to piece together his motives.
From boasting of Dave Murray’s taste in lamb to cheer-leading for billionaire Craig Whyte anyone from Ibrox could count on the staunch support of the angry wee man from Airdrie.
Charles Green and Dave King were given the full Traynor Treatment while on the Ibrox payroll with his anger overflowing after a year on mute with no media outlet prepared to share his extremist views.
With subscriptions to sell for his podcast he told The Sun of his conspiracies about Scottish football as it went into Lockdown:
We need to get to the issues. For instance, we go back to last April and the vote to end the league early. That was a shambles, it was actually shameful. The behaviour of certain people at that time was shameful so this platform will look at these things properly. And if you have to call people out on it that is what we will do.
I felt we didn’t really challenge the governance of football properly and that was the ideal time to do it. An opportunity was missed there. People have to be called to account – the ones who are running our sport. The governance of Scottish football must be examined as a matter of urgency.
You can’t just sit there on the top floor at Hampden and make decisions and then wash your hands of the consequences of those decisions. You have to be open and honest about these things.
I think there was a lot of misinformation out there the last time, there was a lot flying around the last time. This platform will look at issues like this, and tackle them properly, hopefully more forensically and if it wasn’t going to do that, I wouldn’t be interested in joining up. It wouldn’t be for me.
I am not saying my opinions are definitive but if you have got information it is your duty to put that out there. I had left [Rangers] before that league vote arose simply because I felt I had been there long enough.
Things were taking shape. Also there were other things I wanted to do. But I do have a lot of time for the people who are running Rangers because it was a long difficult struggle for them but they got there.
SPFL accuse Rangers chairman Douglas Park of threat and defamatory allegation against Neil Doncasterhttps://t.co/tHq7CovABn pic.twitter.com/ehSRiuJGj5
— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) May 8, 2020
There is certainly plenty to investigate within the SFA and SPFL, the only issue being where to start? Maybe with the threats made to Neil Doncaster last year by Douglas Park when the votes of other clubs weren’t going his way. In the season to date Mr Park’s club haven’t had a penalty awarded against them or player sent off in 32 SPFL matches- what a stroke of good fortune.
Or perhaps you could publish the Five Way Agreement from 2012 which contrary to UEFA regulations has created a parallel set of rules for one club.
Or reveal the role played by current SFA President Rod Petrie in the 2011 decision to grant a UEFA licence to a club that refused to pay a £2.8m bill to HMRC for fielding ineligible players dating back to 2010.
As well as Traynor you can hear from intellectual heavyweights Steven Pressley, Alan Stubbs and Andy Little on the new podcast service. Alex McLeish and Walter Smith are expected to be regular special guests.
