SPFL calls out Rangers and warns against consequences

In a letter to all 42 of the member clubs, the SPFL called out the Rangers for their claims and warned them against the consequences of their future actions.

The Rangers just cannot accept the fact that they could not stop from Celtic from nine-in-a-row on the pitch. As things stand, the Hoops have a 13 point lead at the top of the table with just 8 games left and are virtually guaranteed the title if the season is somehow resumed. But that looks unlikely in this present situation with multiple countries already calling their leagues off.

The Belgian league concluded their league weeks ago, declaring Club Brugge as champions due to their 15 point lead. Recently the Dutch league was also called off but they didn’t declare a champion because both Ajax and AZ were on the same points when the season was forced into suspension. And that is an understandable decision.

Earlier, SPFL called for a vote in order to determine whether the three lower leagues were to be concluded as things stood so that they could hand out the prize money to the clubs. As expected, the majority of the cubs voted in favour of the motion. This was a calculated move considering the fact that many Scottish clubs are struggling to stay afloat at the moment.

Rangers though accused the SPFL of corruption and bullying during the voting process. They called for Neil Doncaster and Rod McKenzie to be suspended and an independent investigation to take place. They even claimed that they had evidence against the governing body.

In the letter, the SPFL asked the Rangers to produce the ‘evidence’. As reported by The Scottish Sun, they wrote:

"“If Rangers Football Club has a dossier of evidence which shows anything to the contrary, then we would repeat the call for it to be brought forward immediately, because we, as club representative directors, have a clear duty to interrogate any allegations of misconduct or the like which it contains.”"

A general meeting will be held on 12th May where all the clubs will have the chance to vote in favour of or against the idea of organising an independent investigation as requested by the Rangers, Hearts and Stranraer. The governing body was quick to warn the three against the financial consequences of going forward with their plans even if the majority of the clubs vote against it:

"“In keeping with SPFL Rules, we will now have a general meeting on 12 May, when clubs will have the chance to either support or reject the resolution requisitioned by Heart of Midlothian, Rangers and Stranraer.“We live in a democracy and the SPFL Articles are clear – if 75% of the clubs in the Premiership, as well as 75% of the clubs in the Championship and 75% of the clubs in Leagues One and Two vote that we should spend our executives‘ time on matters other than Seasons 2019/20 & 2020/21, and clubs’ money on lawyers’ fees, then we will.“But if the resolution fails to gain the support of enough Members and the requisitioners nonetheless continue on their current course, the cost to our game will be incalculable.”"

At this point, it does not look like their is too much in Rangers’ claims of having a dossier of evidence. If they indeed did, they were likely to have already produced it. Now we wait till the 12th of May to see what decision all the clubs come up with.