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Decent article in Belfast Telegraph https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/scottish/how-the-sorry-saga-of-the-spfl-vote-descended-from-incompetence-to-scandal-39140041.html

Robert Mugabe would have been proud of the recent SPFL voting process

Right you can only pick one match I will go for our game back in 72 when we put an excellent Bayern Munich to the sword at Ibrox don't forget a lot of that Munich team went on to lift a world cup .

Originally from Milnathort.

Would Bill Struth to manage and Jock Wallace as first team coach be acceptable ? (Wallace is from Wallyford, a few miles from Auld Reekie) I played in a Rangers top in the Meadows, an Edinburgh public park in the 70´s,....any chance of a game ?

The Mother of economic storms is rattling towards us all. Downsizing is going to be the buzz word en breve.

I think it was a league cup game in September 1966 against Kilmarnock and he came on for Willie Johnston.

The same source as in #2 above has Davy Wilson coming on for Willie Henderson in a League Cup tie at Rugby Park 0-1 v Kilmarnock on 3 September 1966. I was sort of right but elfideldo was much more righter.

Simpson, Hibs Brownlie ! Hibs Holt ,Hearts Stanton Hibs Cumming, Hearts McKay, Hearts Smith, Hearts Young , Hearts Stein , Hibs Ford , Hearts Best , Hibs

Now here we have an unusual phenomenon, common only in Scottish fitba' : a snake peddling snake oil.

Winning the league at their midden in 1999, while they totally humiliated themselves both on and off the pitch.

There's no way in this world I am going to believe a media corps, with a track record of compliance as long as your arm, has suddenly changed the habits of a lifetime. These are journalists who wouldn't know an original thought if it bit them on the arse. They're taking their lead on this from somewhere and it's clear no one knows or is prepared to acknowledge where that is. If you think these snakes have suddenly sprouted legs then good luck to you.

Cruickshank, Hearts, Brownlie, Hibs, Thomson, Hearts. Cumming, Hearts, Stanton, Hibs, McKay, Hearts Smith, Hibs, Young, Hearts, Reilly, Hibs, Wardhaugh, Hearts, Widden Legs Ormond, Hibs. No room for Conn, Bauld, Johnstone, Turnbull, Cormack or Joe Baker.

https://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/18390212.questions-spfl-must-answer-independent-investigation-votegate-fiasco/ ... so slowly every journo in this country follows the party line. At the end of the day, many opinions, but whether there is action ...

Gary Keown - Mail On Sunday 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.

Rangers has accused the SPFL of malfeasance (in short), a serious charge, and yet we hear nothing from the SFA, football's governing body, in particular its Compliance Officer, who must surely have an interest in the machinations of the League, in, around, before, during, and after the ill starred (and ill intentioned) vote. At very least, the mixture of bullshit, bluster, badgering, browbeating, doctoring, and distortion employed by the League must bring the game into disrepute. Of course, do we -does anyone- trust her enough to make a complaint, with evidence?

One wonders how much longer the ominous silence from glasgow’s East end will continue regards the SPFL vote fiasco. Liewell seems to have abandoned his 3 SPFL placemen who are now coming under fire from everyone. Do the yahoos support an independent SPFL investigation or not? Do the yahoos support league reconstruction or not? Hopefully we are now beginning to see the end of liewell’s cast iron grip on Scottish football

Correct.

IMO Clubs have to go a little beyond their own self-interest on this because of the level of threat the virus fall-out poses the game in general. Tom English is only doing his job. Yesterday, we heard it live on radio. It was like a bullfight, only a sheep replaced the bull and voluntarily started to batter it´s head of a wall, dazing itself. The hack sensed his prey was weakening and repeatedly made moves to try and finish him off. Brian McLauchlin later tried to get a bite himself.