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Originally Posted by Emel
So it is SFL Division 3 for Rangers next season! It will be at least three years before they are back in the premier league competing with Celtic (assuming Scottish football doesn't reorganise).
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/18813407
This makes ESPN's sports offering, after they lose the English Premier League, look a bit weaker. Will ESPN still merit a place in the XL pack after next season, could the XL pack money be better spent? I am all for sports channels; perhaps a compromise position would be to keep ESPN but with Virgin playing considerably less for a less attractive package. |
As a Rangers fan I would love this to be the end of the story...... but I don't think it will be. I've always said Division 3 is the only place Rangers should go. Reports today however suggest SPL2 will now be hastily rushed through prior to the start of the season with Rangers and other Division clubs invited to make up the "breakaway" league. If this is true, I'm totally disgusted.
Rangers had the following on their website very soon after the outcome of the vote:
"Rangers' future remains uncertain after the Scottish Football League clubs voted against the Light Blues playing in the First Division next season.
"At a meeting at Hampden today, the 30 member clubs agreed to accept Rangers into the SFL but voted against the SFL board being allowed to broker a deal with the SPL and SFA over new structures and procedures which would also include Rangers playing in Division One.
"It is now understood that on the back of a briefing SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster and SFA counterpart Stewart Regan gave to clubs last week that the SPL will introduce a plan for SPL 2 - which would include Rangers - and invite existing Division One members to join."