SPFL are a disgrace... the inquiry has to be held now

RIGHT, can we get this independent investigation into the disgrace that is the SPFL up and running now, please? Aberdeen chairman Dave Cormack supports it, along with Ann Budge at Hearts and Douglas Park at Rangers, and has given fresh evidence to suggest it is more than worthwhile. Despite later attempts to change the subject, Cormack (left) admitted on radio yesterday that he was told in a call from SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster at 4:40pm last Friday — when Aberdeen had not submitted their ballot paper — that another ‘yes’ vote was no longer needed to push through the league’s resolution on calling the season as it stands.

Forgive my naivety here, but what kind of process is this when the governing body are letting clubs know how other votes are shaping up to let them work out how best to cast theirs?

That’s before we even get to the ‘coercion’ Budge and Park have spoken about, incomplete results being released and Dundee submitting a ‘no’ vote that somehow got lost in the internet and was later allowed to be changed to a ‘yes’.

The more you hear, the more the whole thing stinks. The insight it has given into the politicking that goes on behind the scenes has surely been alarming to fans of all clubs no matter whether they were affected in a sporting sense by that resolution or not.

What’s more, there hasn’t been a single note of contrition from the SPFL.

Instead, they seem quite happy with themselves, their chairman Murdoch MacLennan offering his pearls of wisdom to the proles for the first time in pretty much three years and, almost immediately, making you wish he hadn’t.

It is impossible to have any trust in the workings of the SPFL right now. Sure, that might be an uncharitable position to take, but it is hard to see how anything other than a fully independent inquiry can even begin to turn that round.