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Stuart Wilson

WhatsApp SPFL vote row: Ayr United chairman Lachlan Cameron challenges Dundee to produce email evidence

Lachlan Cameron is challenging Dundee to come clean over the SPFL vote row that has plunged Scottish football into crisis.

The Ayr chairman reckons officials at Dens should prove they DID send their missing vote slip to the league.

It follows bombshell claims from Inverness chief, Scot Gardiner, that Dundee told fellow clubs their 'no' vote was successfully lodged at Hampden.

Gardiner, who says officials from a string of Scots clubs were included in a WhatsApp group, claims Dundee announced to the group that their vote was placed shortly before 4.30pm yesterday.

But clubs were left stunned just half an hour later when SPFL bosses claimed the vote never arrived.

Dundee have now gone to ground and are refusing to comment on the storm, while Rangers have called for the immediate suspension of SPFL chief Neil Doncaster over his body's handling of the farce.

Now Ayr chief Cameron, who insists he has "never" been part of any WhatsApp group involving club officials, is urging Dundee to show their hand.

Speaking on Twitter tonight, he said: "It seems pretty simple. Dundee should produce a sent receipt of the email."

Ayr were one of seven Championship clubs who voted yes to the resolution and now await their fate along with the rest of Scottish football.

And Cameron added: "I wasn't coerced into anything. I didn’t speak to any other club about this (other than a casual conversation with Ian McCall) and I have never been in a WhatsApp group with any other SPFL clubs.

"I just want Dundee to clarify their position one way or the other and we can either end the season or look for an acceptable solution. Holding out hurts everybody."

Clubs have 28 days to respond to an ordinary resolution, so the Dens Park men were under no obligation to respond by Friday's 5pm deadline.

But Inverness chief Gardiner insists he and other clubs are in possession of photographic evidence sent by Dundee which shows they voted no.

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