Time to forget EBT row, says Killie’s Bowie

KILMARNOCK major shareholder Billy Bowie has urged Scottish football to consign the bitterness over Rangers’ EBTs to the past. Echoing a call from Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne for the game to move on Bowie, who owns 40-per-cent of the Rugby Park club, told Sportsmail it is time for hostilities to end. The SPFL have dismissed the possibility of imposing fresh sanctions on Rangers over the use of Employee Benefit Trusts to avoid paying full tax on payments

to players between 2001 and 2010, ruling out any prospect of title-stripping following legal advice from QC Gerry Moynihan. Celtic have spent recent days considering their position on the matter. Urging SPFL clubs and supporters to focus on the future, however, Killie director Bowie said: ‘My thing is to look to the future and stop dwelling on the past. ‘If we keep dwelling on the past it will drag us down — all of the clubs. The SPFL have outlined their stance and it’s past history now. ‘Rangers need to move on — and Scottish football has to draw a line in the sand and move on as well. There are a lot of challenges facing the game currently and we need to see a way through them.’ The key decision maker at Kilmarnock since former chairman Michael Johnston resigned from the board in May, Bowie is forging plans for a new £2.5million training complex for the Premiership club. Three potential sites are under assessment, with plans for the club to take eventual ownership of the facility. ‘I am looking at three sites for a potential training complex,’ confirmed Bowie.