Gordon Strachan accused half of SPFL clubs of “pretending to be professional” and holding the rest back as he demanded a radical rethink of Scottish football.
The former Scotland boss - now technical director at Dundee - launched a withering assessment of the structure of the league north of the border and claimed 40-50 per cent of clubs wouldn’t survive in the English National League.
As Ann Budge prepares to put her reconstruction proposals in front of fellow clubs in the coming days, Strachan reckons a serious rethink is needed to breathe money and new life into our game once it has recovered from the covid crisis. “For maybe 40 per cent of clubs in Scotland would not have the ability to survive in the conference in England,”