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SCOTTISH football could change forever with plans for money-spinning play-offs in the SPL.

 

Representatives of Hearts, Kilmarnock and Dundee United have secretly discussed ground-breaking proposals to bring the format to the top FOUR teams in Scotland.

 

SunSport can reveal their sensational plans would mean the team who finished top of the league WOULDN'T automatically be crowned champions.

 

Instead, there would be two-legged semi-finals between first and fourth and second and third, before a glittering winner-takes-all Hampden showdown.

 

The men behind the plan - which they believe will be worth at LEAST �£4million per season - had hoped to table the sensational plans at today's SPL summit which was postponed due to the weather.

 

Last night an SPL insider revealed the top-secret proposals United, Killie and Hearts believe will smash the Old Firm's football stranglehold.

 

A source said: "This has only come to the fore in the last 48 hours but the implications are MASSIVE.

 

"The league propose play-offs at the bottom but is that really going to float the boat of the broadcasters or fans?

 

"If you do it at the bottom, why not the top? It's radical and people will initially assume it's madcap. The people involved say it's anything but."

 

The minds behind the controversial system acknowledge the Old Firm are likely to be against it.

 

They believe that's exactly why EVERY other club will back the move.

 

They have calculated all five play-off games would attract a total of 200,000 fans, with gate receipts totalling �£4m.

 

That's before any broadcasting deal to show the play-offs would be struck.

 

Going by last season's final SPL table, Walter Smith's champs Rangers, Celtic, Dundee United and Hibs would all have been involved.

 

A source said: "There isn't a reason why anyone outside the Old Firm SHOULDN'T vote for this. They've nothing to lose."

 

Dundee United chief Stephen Thompson admitted he was in favour of play-offs at the top end of the table.

 

He said: "The proposals that have been put to us contain a lot of decent ideas and a lot of good things have been tabled.

 

"However, if there is to be a 10-team league - and I still do not think that is right from a purely footballing sense - why can't it be more radical?

 

"I strongly believe that fans of teams outwith the Old Firm have become fed up of those two sharing the title between them.

 

"It is incredible and extremely regrettable that the last non-Old Firm title win was 25 years ago.

 

"I think we need to go further and make things more interesting at the top of the table as well as having promotion/ relegation play-offs."

 

 

Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/3309058/Play-off-for-SPL-title.html#ixzz18dM5AiyH

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