Scottish Premiership Hearts and League One Stranraer are set to support Rangers in their calls for an EGM of the SPFL’s 42 member clubs, according to the Times.
Both sides stand to be relegated should controversial season-ending proposals be forced through, with Rangers demanding an independent investigation into the vote.
Hearts chair Ann Budge has been tasked with heading a league reconstruction group yet the Tynecastle club are also said to have thrown their support behind Rangers.
The support of Hearts and Stranraer should be enough to grant Rangers the EGM where the three clubs will set out their case for the investigation.
They will need 75% of clubs to vote in favour of the proposal, or 32 sides.
The Ibrox club remains unimpressed with the SPFL’s attempts at resolving the current situation via an apparently independent Deloitte report.
Rangers bit back at the report – which is alleged to have found no wrongdoing [BBC] – by detailing seven key areas which it feels must be better explored to resolve the issue.
The entire debacle centres around a vote on SPFL proposals which would effectively give the members’ body the right to end the season as things stand.
With the vote set to fail, the SPFL released details of the current voting standings in a sudden attempt to coerce the final club – known to be Dundee – into voting Yes.
Dundee would later explain that this gave them a position of power in negotiating and they eventually changed their vote to Yes.
The Dens Park club had originally voted No but it has been claimed that this did not reach Hampden and that Dundee had cancelled it before it did.
The legality of this had previously been challenged by Partick Thistle, who eventually went on to retract their statement over fears of the financial burden this would place on the club.
Rangers have not let up in their pursuit of the SPFL and with the support of Hearts and Stranraer will hope to table a vote at an EGM regarding a truly independent investigation.
Rangers have assured clubs that evidence of apparent wrongdoing and dodgy corporate governance will be provided to them [Rangers] ahead of the vote.
