George Cran

Draw a line under it all is the hope – yet more insanity will be reality

DRAW a line under it all, move on to a more positive future. That’s the hope after yesterday’s failed SPFL vote. The reality, I fear, is more of the same.

It all reminds me of the old saying ‘insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results’.

It’s debated whether it was Albert Einstein who said that or he quoted somebody else but it certainly doesn’t seem like there are many Einsteins around Scottish football right now.

The clever ones in all this are the ones not saying anything at all – it’s difficult to make yourself look foolish if you keep your mouth shut.

The teams top of the Club Statement table (note capital letters where they don’t belong) are the ones I’d be concerned about if I was a fan of one of their ‘Clubs’.

Hearts, Partick and Stranraer have legitimate reasons to be declaring their unhappiness, I must say, because they’re the ones who have been thrown under the bus in all this.

The rest, though, I just wish would put a sock in it.

If you don’t have anything constructive to say, don’t say anything at all – sounds like something your granny would tell you but the old dear would be right on the money.

That’s not to say I think the SPFL have done a bang-up job of sorting all this mess out, anything but.

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In fact, I agree with the Rangers bosses that there are questions that should be answered by the governing body. Why was there such a short time to consider the original resolution? Why was there a false deadline imposed? Why was the incomplete vote then published and Dundee put in an impossible position?

The way the Ibrox club went about all that, though, was so poor and so short-sighted.

Calling for resignations and then building up their ‘dossier’ bombshell only to deliver the equivalent of a party-popper didn’t exactly breed the trust they needed from the other clubs to get their vote through.

And it showed – other clubs saw through their tactics as self-serving and poorly played.

Proclaiming to be working toward the betterment of Scottish football and then creating a them-against-us narrative doesn’t work.

So far, we’ve had Dundee hoping a club statement and a John Nelms interview would draw a line under things, then the SPFL’s Deloitte inquiry aiming to do just that, now we have this.

The sensible and forward-thinking move would be to let sleeping dogs lie and get on with making our game better for everybody.

We love Scottish football because it is mad but this insanity could destroy our game if we’re not careful.

Rakish Bingham will be leaving Dundee United.

What’s next for Scottish football? Does anyone really know?