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'F*** Rangers and Celtic' Former Airdrie and Falkirk star blasts SPFL crisis plan lower league double standards

Mark Roberts has slammed the SPFL proposal to handout league titles and relegations in the lower leagues - claiming they have to finish all divisions in Scotland or none.

The former Airdrie, Falkirk and Partick Thistle striker fumed that the plan hands Raith Rovers League One glory with less than five points separating the top three.

However, as it stands the Old Firm have the chance to end the Premiership race on the park.

The 44-year-old also put the decision to allow clubs to vote the Jags out of the Championship in the firing line while Hearts don’t face the same fate in the top flight.

The governing body yesterday unveiled the crisis move which would axe play-off games and see Rovers pip the Diamonds and Bairns to League One glory despite less than 0.2 points per game separating the sides.

A decision is still to be made at the top of the Premiership (SNS Group)

Ian McCall’s Firhill men would also be sent to the third tier having played less games than Queen of the South.

Roberts told Lanarkshire Live Sport : “It’s pathetic; League One is far too close to give Raith a title.

“Is that fair on Partick Thistle getting relegated from the Championship as well, which is potentially a club killer? It’s not.

“If you’re not going to play it I think you should restart the league with a clean slate. I don’t think it’s fair.

“The Premiership is being treated differently, how is the Premiership different? Because there is more money in the Premiership? F**k the Premiership.

“I don’t get it, but it grates on me. If they can get the Premiership games played, why can’t they get the rest of the games played?

“Is it just cause they have Rangers and Celtic in it? F*** Rangers and Celtic.

Raith would be handed the title ahead of Airdrie (Garry F McHarg Daily Record)

“It still means just as much to an Airdrie fan or a Falkirk fan as it does to Rangers, Celtic, Hearts, and Hibs.

“If they aren’t going to play the season out they can’t just say that’s you up. If I’m a player with Airdrie or Falkirk there is no way I’m accepting that.

“That’s what you’ve been working for from June last year until now.

“You’ve worked your b***s off to get to that position where you can go and win a league, it’s not fair.

“If I was a player, coach or chairman at one of those clubs I’d be bealing.”

Partick Thistle could be sent down if the plans are given the green light (SNS Group)

He continued: “Why do Hearts have a chance to save themselves but Partick Thistle don’t? Why do Rangers and Celtic get to fight for a title but Airdrie, Falkirk and Raith don’t?

“If I was at a club I wouldn’t want them to vote for the proposal.

"Get the SPFL, SFA; whoever it is thinking of ways to make the game better rather than p*** off 95 per cent of the clubs in Scotland."

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