Our descent into a fine farce

Scottish football has descended into farce following Hearts and Partick Thistle’s joint legal challenge against their relegations.

I would not deny them their right to fight against the drop but I don’t quite see why Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers, the respective winners of the Championship, League 1 and League 2, should be penalised by being denied promotion.

That we have even reached this point is ridiculous but in Scottish football I’ve learned nothing should surprise me anymore.

The solution has been there all along – reconstruct the league by increasing the Premiership to 14 clubs, promote Dundee United and Caley Thistle and let Brora Rangers and Kelty Hearts into the SPFL.

Unfortunately, clubs, already worried about the loss of income from the game grinding to a halt in March and the prospect of returning behind closed doors next season, voted to maintain the status quo.

That has prompted Hearts and Partick to come out swinging and I can only see this saga ending in one of two ways – reconstruction or compensation.

But good luck to Hearts and Partick if they think £10 million is coming their way.

There will be no winners from the mess this has become but it has been clear for a while this was coming.