Rangers managing director Stewart Roberton has claimed that the curtailing of season 19/20 left “a really sour taste” in the mouths of the Ibrox directorate.
The Gers chief was speaking at the club’s AGM and opened up about the season ending vote which handed a ninth title in a row to Celtic despite the Parkhead club failing to earn it.
Rangers were in a run of awful domestic form when the season came to a halt and found themselves 13 points behind rivals Celtic, albeit with a game in hand.
There were still two Old Firm games to play which could’ve effectively brought the gap back to four points and Robertson expressed his frustration that the campaign wasn’t played out.
“I think we were all disappointed with the way the 2019/20 season was curtailed early,” said Robertson [Sky Sports].
“The fashion that happened left a really sour taste in the mouth, to be honest.
“It’s been well publicised what our views on that were. We as a club were keen to get the games played.
“We’d have much rather got the games played to a conclusion as they did in England and most other European countries.
“However, that path was never really made available to us. I feel some clubs accepted that path a bit too quickly and if we’d tried a bit harder, maybe we’d have got there.
“We didn’t and eventually there came a point when it was obvious we weren’t going to get there.”
Rangers demanded an independent investigation into the SPFL and the suspension of chief executive Neil Doncaster after the end-of-season voting debacle [BBC Sport].
Clubs were infamously asked to vote on whether or not the season should be ended, hamstrung by the SPFL’s insistence prize money couldn’t be handed out otherwise.
With the vote set to fail, Dundee’s submitted No vote was mysteriously lost before being changed and the season curtailed.
Leaked WhatsApp chats appeared to suggest something dodgy was afoot but Rangers’ motion for an investigation was rejected by the member clubs.
However around one third of clubs essentially motioned a vote of no confidence in the current regime by agreeing with the Ibrox side [BBC Sport].
There was plenty more on the agenda at the club’s annual general meeting as one of Rangers’ most recent partnership was heralded as “monumental”.
