Scotland's 42 senior clubs will hold crisis talks on Wednesday morning as the national game attempts to survive the latest surge in coronavirus.
Record Sport understands all clubs across the four tiers of the SPFL will hold urgent online discussions along with SFA chief executive Ian Maxwell as the ruinous financial consequences of the pandemic continue to hit home hard.
The top 12 from the Premiership are looking for answers from Hampden top brass over the £20m government bailout which was promised to them last month but which has yet to materialise - with the most hard up clubs now in urgent need of the cash ahead of paying out January’s wage bills.
Maxwell has been leading the discussions with Holyrood over the proposed emergency loans but claimed on Monday that the money has been held up as a result of Brexit red tape and uncertainty over the potential interest rates involved.
This comes after we revealed last week that a number of Premiership clubs are growing increasingly frustrated and angered with Holyrood over the delay with one leading executive branding the situation as an ‘absolute shambles’.
But a raft of angry bosses from League One and League Two are also expected to voice their concerns over the SFA’s decision to shut them down for at least the next three weeks as Scotland’s Covid-19 rage out of control.
The decision was publicly backed by SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster and his support has further infuriated a number of clubs, led by Partick Thistle and Falkirk, who believe the lower leagues are paying the price for high profile protocol breaches at the top end of the game, including Celtic’s controversial winter trip to Dubai.
One source told us: “It could be a very interesting meeting as feelings are running high. A number of top flight clubs are now crying out for the money they were promised by government and there is unrest at the other end over the decision to introduce a fire break in their leagues.
“The SFA and the SPFL have a lot of explaining to do.”
