SFA chiefs will demand all Premiership games are cancelled before Scotland’s crucial Euro play-off in March.
MailSport understands the SFA have grown frustrated that Neil Doncaster and Co have failed to give a definitive answer in talks about cancelling top-flight games prior to Steve Clarke’s side crunch clash with Israel on March 26.
The SFA initially wanted games on the Sunday cancelled but the lack of progress or encouragement from the SPFL will see the SFA up the ante when the talks continue this week.
However, if either Celtic or Rangers were to qualify for the last 16 of the Europa League they would be in action on Thursday, March 19, and their Premiership game at the weekend would have to be moved back to the Sunday.
That would further hamper Clarke’s build-up preparations for the nation’s biggest game in a generation and he is desperate for the league to sanction a postponement of the Premiership games on the Saturday too.
That would require the agreement of broadcasters Sky and BT Sport and it is understood SPFL secretary Iain Blair has been having dialogue with them in an attempt to facilitate Clarke’s request.
Israel have already agreed to cancel their entire domestic fixture list ahead of the play-off showdown to let boss Andreas Herzog take his squad on a four-day training camp before the Hampden clash.
