STENNY CHIEF BACKS NEW SPFL PROBE

STENHOUSEMUIR chairman Iain McMenemy granted his support to the push for an independent external investigation into the SPFL’s handling of the vote to end the Scottish football season.

Rangers have made a renewed bid to pressure the authorities into action by tendering a members’ requisition for a general meeting of all 42 senior clubs on the matter.

The Ibrox club and others are entirely unsatisfied by an internal probe authorised by league chairman Murdoch MacLennan.

Carried out by Deloitte,

‘no evidence of improper behaviour’ was found in the case of Dundee’s missing vote following a forensic study of email, text and phone records.

However, the ‘narrow scope’ of that investigation was criticised by Rangers, who stressed that the probe must be widened to cover a host of issues that the Deloitte work ‘alarmingly failed to examine’.

Rangers say they possess a damning dossier of evidence which they will only reveal to independent investigators.

Moving the saga along to that stage is fine with McMenemy, whose club voted for the resolution in order to square their finances amid the coronavirus crisis. ‘I think, given the seriousness of the allegations that have been made and how long it’s gone on, that there has to be an independent investigation,’ said McMenemy.

‘That will either prove wrongdoing and something can happen or it will exonerate the people who’ve been accused and have had that hanging over their heads.’

The SPFL is bound to hold a general meeting of all 42 clubs in the event of requests from three members. The resolution forwarded by Rangers would then require a 75-percent majority to carry.