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Alloa President Mike Mulraney has compared the Rangers’ dispute with the Scottish league to “bald men fighting over a comb.”
The vice president of the Scottish Football Association believes the game has far bigger struggles to contend with during the pandemic than concerns about the Scottish Professional Football League’s vote to end the season.
Rangers, allied with Hearts and Stranraer, have taken to an SPFL general meeting on May 12 to decide whether there should be an independent investigation into the process surrounding the vote.
Mulraney, a former member of the SPFL board of directors, told BBC Radio Scotland’s Sportsound program: “When people are trying to react to a process, there are frustrations and harsh words spoken from all sides, but in the context of what face our game, it’s white noise. “
“Of course, it’s important in the context of the event, but in the context of Scottish football, it’s like me and four other bald guys fighting over a comb.”
“It really isn’t going to affect the long-term future of Scottish football.”
Rangers had asked that SPFL CEO Neil Doncaster and legal counsel Rod McKenzie be suspended for the evidence they have not yet presented, and claimed that some clubs had been “intimidated” to vote in favor of the resolution.
Mulraney, whose fellow Alloa board member Ewen Cameron sits on the SPFL board, said: “I saw very strong discussions on both sides of the debate and about a big decision like this, so there should be.”
He added: “No one is going to go through this period of time without looking back and wishing they had done some things differently.
“I’m more concerned with making sure we have 42 senior clubs when we get past this.”
Doncaster this weekend denied claims that Motherwell and Partick Thistle received loans from the SPFL in 2017.
The SPFL chief executive stated that both clubs received an advance on central payments after Celtic agreed to accept a delayed cash prize, after both received fewer home games against Rangers and Celtic than budgeted.
The Rangers’ suggestion that money be loaned to clubs based on early termination had been declared too slow and risky by the SPFL.
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