Inverness CT will testify to bullying and threats by SPFL board member if inquiry goes ahead

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Scottish Championship side Inverness Caledonian Thistle are the latest side to release a statement that is highly critical of the SPFL’s handling of a club vote to end the lower league seasons and potentially the Premiership.

Throughout what has been a dramatic few weeks for Scottish football a small band of clubs, chiefly led by Rangers and Hearts, have been highly critical of the SPFL board, chairman and chief executive.

Despite the league body refuting claims of bullying and coercion, the Ibrox side have called an EGM on Tuesday to vote on conducting an independent inquiry into the matter.

Now, Inverness CT have put forward their case in a lengthy statement.

That said, in part, as taken from their official website: “Without going into the specifics at this time, please know that we will testify to the bullying and threats made against our club on Friday 10th by an SPFL Board member and the threats against others by the same SPFL Board member and how these threats were “reported back to the centre” and to the SPFL CEO directly on the day with evidence at any genuine independent investigation with the proper and appropriate scope, should there be one, or at any further subsequent action thereafter. These were threats and not robust conversations.”

It’s a forthright stance and will perhaps even be intriguing to other clubs had they not been privy to some of the ‘robust’ debates prior to voting on the SPFL board’s proposals.

Any genuine evidence of bullying is relevant to every club in the SPFL, including Celtic.

Nonetheless, the whole thing to me can’t help but feel like a distraction from the stark realities facing Scottish football in the midst of a global health crisis.

What everyone needs to realise, behind all the divisive rhetoric and language, is that every single club in Scotland is effectively in the same boat right now.

Whichever way you view this issue, and there have been plenty of opinions flying around, it seems that at the very least it’s all coming to a head at the upcoming EGM.

If the Rangers resolution to spark an independent inquiry is voted down then, to me, it’s doubtful that aggrieved clubs will be desperate enough to pursue other legal options.

Though as this saga has shown, nothing can really be ruled out.