Analysis of the case against the SPFL DAMNING EVIDENCE OR WASTE OF PAPER? RANGERS DROP THE DOSSIER

‘This is not about stopping Celtic winning the league’

RANGERS managing director Stewart Robertson last night dismissed claims the Ibrox club are attempting to prevent

Celtic from being awarded the Ladbrokes Premiership title.

The Glasgow club want an independent investigation into the SPFL resolution on the end of the 2019/20 season and passed a “dossier of evidence” on to their fellow member clubs yesterday.

They are hoping they get enough backing – 75 per cent support from the Premiership, Championship and League 1 and League 2 clubs – at an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday.

Fans of Rangers, who were 13 points behind their city rivals in the top-flight table when football was suspended due to the Covid-19 outbreak, are furious at Celtic being crowned champions on a points per game basis.

However, Robertson, who is an SPFL board member, insisted their motivations were a concern about corporate governance at the governing body and a desire to force through positive change.

The former Motherwell official claimed clubs had been treated without any respect since the shutdown and described the standard of executive leadership as the worst he had ever witnessed in five separate spells on the board. “To be absolutely clear this has never been a Rangers-Celtic thing,” he said. “I can get why people are maybe thinking the narrative is ‘we didn’t want Celtic to be awarded the league title’. I understand that it’s obviously the case that people would say that.

“We always wanted to play the games if practically possible given everything that’s going on and the challenges