SPFL vote in the balance
as Rangers prize money plan set to go under the microscope
All 42 clubs have until 5pm on Friday to accept or reject the league body's proposal for concluding the season.
Scottish football’s D-Day coronavirus vote was hanging in the balance on Thursday night.
An exclusive
Record Sport straw poll of the country’s 42 clubs suggests the chances of the
SPFL’s emergency measures to end the current season may be no better than 50-50.
We understand the game’s fate in now in the hands of a small group of key undeclared clubs including the likes of
Aberdeen, Hibs and Championship minnows Inverness Caley Thistle.
A counter proposal tabled by
Rangers - which would stall any decision to end the 2019/20 campaign - will also go in front of the league’s board this morning and could also be put to the vote today if it is declared legally sound.
But the Ibrox club’s attempt to keep the season alive until all remaining games are played suffered a hammer blow when the SFA announced that football will stay in lock-down until the end of July at the earliest.
That declaration has ended any remaining possibility that the remaining matches could be played out over the summer and squeezed in before the scheduled start of next season - when multi-million pound new TV contracts with Sky Sports and Premier Sports are due to kick in.
And any perceived threat to that TV cash could swing voting in the SPFL’s favour on Friday as Hampden’s sixth floor braces itself ahead of tonight’s 5pm deadline.
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What a lot of errors in Klaxons latest diatribe.
Hibs and Aberdeen aren't voting tomorrow.
What a poorly researched attempt at speculating. And the league is only saying lockdown until June 10th - not the end of July.
Mind you... it is the record.
Don't give it the hits Bears.