Dalglish worries about potential stripping of titles awarded

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Legendary striker Kenny Dalglish has admitted concern that a positive judgement for Hearts and Partick Thistle in their legal battle with the SPFL could lead to a challenge over titles awarded last season.

The M8 alliance will shortly face SFA arbitration to decide the legality of their forced relegation with eight games still to play.

Three arbitrators from a legal background will go through the SPFL decision making process to relegate the two clubs and decide what restitution, if any, should be made.

And Dalglish is concerned that if the clubs get a favourable judgement and relegation is scrapped, it could end up causing challenges to "null and void" titles won by Celtic, Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers.

He told The Sunday Post : "If the judgment goes in favour of the clubs, then good luck to them.

"Their endeavour and fight against the SPFL will have led them to getting the result they wanted.

"But such a ruling may well open the door to many, many decisions in the SPFL’s four divisions being called into question.

"For example, if the relegation of Hearts from the Premiership, and Thistle from the Championship, is ruled to be unlawful, what’s to stop a club challenging the outcome at the top of the table as well?

"What’s to stop them asking that any titles given before the fixture schedule had been completed should also be ruled null and void?

"The argument would be that the same rules must apply to every place in the league, and not just the issue of relegation.

"The same applies to the handing out of European places.

"The past few weeks have been bad enough for the reputation of Scottish football.

"But this scenario could lead to our game becoming absolutely chaotic.

"Everything could well all end up in the air, and lead to even more legal challenges.

"It would leave the Premiership’s scheduled start date of August 1 in serious doubt."
 
Legendary striker Kenny Dalglish has admitted concern that a positive judgement for Hearts and Partick Thistle in their legal battle with the SPFL could lead to a challenge over titles awarded last season.

The M8 alliance will shortly face SFA arbitration to decide the legality of their forced relegation with eight games still to play.

Three arbitrators from a legal background will go through the SPFL decision making process to relegate the two clubs and decide what restitution, if any, should be made.

And Dalglish is concerned that if the clubs get a favourable judgement and relegation is scrapped, it could end up causing challenges to "null and void" titles won by Celtic, Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers.

He told The Sunday Post : "If the judgment goes in favour of the clubs, then good luck to them.

"Their endeavour and fight against the SPFL will have led them to getting the result they wanted.

"But such a ruling may well open the door to many, many decisions in the SPFL’s four divisions being called into question.

"For example, if the relegation of Hearts from the Premiership, and Thistle from the Championship, is ruled to be unlawful, what’s to stop a club challenging the outcome at the top of the table as well?

"What’s to stop them asking that any titles given before the fixture schedule had been completed should also be ruled null and void?

"The argument would be that the same rules must apply to every place in the league, and not just the issue of relegation.

"The same applies to the handing out of European places.

"The past few weeks have been bad enough for the reputation of Scottish football.

"But this scenario could lead to our game becoming absolutely chaotic.

"Everything could well all end up in the air, and lead to even more legal challenges.

"It would leave the Premiership’s scheduled start date of August 1 in serious doubt."
How many likes would this get if it came to fruition.
 
This was all caused by cellik.
There can be no other answer here.
Any reason offered for bringing the season to an early close, is now debunked on the spot.
There really was no need for this.
If we’d kept playing, chances are that they’d have won the league, on the park.
So, was there another external influence at play here?
Like a substantial bonus from New Balance that had a completion date?
 
He told The Sunday Post : "If the judgment goes in favour of the clubs, then good luck to them.

"Their endeavour and fight against the SPFL will have led them to getting the result they wanted.


Ehh naw ya auld prick. It'll result in them getting the correct result, the only result it should have been in the beginning.
Dont see anything wrong with what he says to be honest
 
So if one decision caused by the SPFL's hasty decision to stop league is deemed to wrong it be wrong to question the validity of their other decisions?

Aye, nae bother.

Has he been locked in Baird's Bar during the lockdown?
 
If they win the case I don’t see any other option than to void the league.
I'm sure the authorities and the media will be able to spin why all options except the correct moral and legal one is the way to go. Sporting integrity and ll that.
 
Titles were not 'won' by these clubs. Titles were awarded. Titles can only be won on the park. It was an incomplete season. Inconvenient as that may be to some, it is an irrefutable fact.
 
Titles were not 'won' by these clubs. Titles were awarded. Titles can only be won on the park. It was an incomplete season. Inconvenient as that may be to some, it is an irrefutable fact.

Which is why I phrased the thread title the way I did.
 
When the botched Dundee vote was recast that in itself called into question the integrity of it all imo. Nothing should have been handed out/gifted after that corrupt vote.

If there is a case for a stripped title then so be it they tried for years to have ours taken away so go for it I say.
 
" But such a ruling may well open the door to many, many decisions in the SPFL’s four divisions being called into question."

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There can be no other answer here.
Any reason offered for bringing the season to an early close, is now debunked on the spot.
There really was no need for this.
If we’d kept playing, chances are that they’d have won the league, on the park.
So, was there another external influence at play here?
Like a substantial bonus from New Balance that had a completion date?
Or likely that their new super duper retail deal was dependent upon winning NIAR as they would issue a commemorative mhanky rag?
 
Legendary striker Kenny Dalglish has admitted concern that a positive judgement for Hearts and Partick Thistle in their legal battle with the SPFL could lead to a challenge over titles awarded last season.

The M8 alliance will shortly face SFA arbitration to decide the legality of their forced relegation with eight games still to play.

Three arbitrators from a legal background will go through the SPFL decision making process to relegate the two clubs and decide what restitution, if any, should be made.

And Dalglish is concerned that if the clubs get a favourable judgement and relegation is scrapped, it could end up causing challenges to "null and void" titles won by Celtic, Dundee United, Raith Rovers and Cove Rangers.

He told The Sunday Post : "If the judgment goes in favour of the clubs, then good luck to them.

"Their endeavour and fight against the SPFL will have led them to getting the result they wanted.

"But such a ruling may well open the door to many, many decisions in the SPFL’s four divisions being called into question.

"For example, if the relegation of Hearts from the Premiership, and Thistle from the Championship, is ruled to be unlawful, what’s to stop a club challenging the outcome at the top of the table as well?

"What’s to stop them asking that any titles given before the fixture schedule had been completed should also be ruled null and void?

"The argument would be that the same rules must apply to every place in the league, and not just the issue of relegation.

"The same applies to the handing out of European places.

"The past few weeks have been bad enough for the reputation of Scottish football.

"But this scenario could lead to our game becoming absolutely chaotic.

"Everything could well all end up in the air, and lead to even more legal challenges.

"It would leave the Premiership’s scheduled start date of August 1 in serious doubt."
Sounds like a plan to me.
 
"For example, if the relegation of Hearts from the Premiership, and Thistle from the Championship, is ruled to be unlawful, what’s to stop a club challenging the outcome at the top of the table as well?
Exactly Kenny! Wonder how many of your tim worshippers have figured this out :))
 
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