EX-BUDDIES CHIEF — SFA ‘NEEDS REVAMP’

FORMER St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour called for a complete overhaul of the Scottish Football Association following Stewart Regan’s resignation.

The SFA is looking for a new chief executive as well as a national team boss after Regan immediately stepped down following a scheduled meeting t o discuss t he recruitment of Gordon Strachan’s successor.

Regan had been under increasing pressure from suppor ters after clear first-choice Michael O’Neill rejected the chance to leave Northern Ireland for Scotland 102 days after Strachan was sacked.

Regan also came under fire over a decision t o arrange friendlies in Peru and Mexico after the end of the season with Scotland captain Scott Brown and Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers expressing their dismay.

And Gilmour feels Scottish football should use the dramatic development to examine the structure of its governing body.

Gilmour said: “The whole SFA needs revamped. It needs stripped out from the ground up and started again. It needs to change dramatically.

“I don’t know the ins and outs of it but the failure to land Michael O’Neill needs looking at totally.

“I think they made a complete mess of that. If that was the guy they wanted they should have got him.”

Regan has been replaced on an interim basis by chief operating officer Andrew McKinlay.