SPFL board members hit out at Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson
Rangers managing director Stewart Robertson has been accused of making "baseless, damaging and self-serving attacks'' by his fellow Scottish Professional Football League board members.
The other eight SPFL directors have issued a lengthy rebuttal of a number of allegations made in the dossier Rangers sent to clubs on Thursday and insisted they had "complete confidence'' in chief executive Neil Doncaster and legal advisor Rod McKenzie, both of whom the Ibrox club wants suspended.
The board members again urged clubs to reject Rangers' resolution for an independent investigation into the circumstances surrounding the recent vote which ended the lower-league season and handed the SPFL board the authority to do the same for the Premiership.
Robertson had claimed clubs were shown a "complete disregard'' and had been "railroaded'' down a particular path.
The letter, which came ahead of a meeting between the 12 Premiership clubs and Championship winners Dundee United, stated it was "enormously frustrating to see one of our number launch baseless, damaging and self-serving attacks''.
It added: "Every one of us has sat alongside Stewart Robertson and been privy to the information and procedures of the SPFL board. If anything had been untoward, we would have addressed it at the time.
"Having served on the board for season 2017/18 and again since July 2019, if he actually believed these serious, wide-ranging and numerous claims, why has it taken him until now, just five days before Rangers' resolution comes before the EGM, to make them public?
"Surely if things were so bad, so dysfunctional, he had a clear and compelling duty to speak out before now?''
The letter then went on to address a number of claims made in Rangers' document.
There was no detailed response to accusations of "poor corporate governance'' and allegations that some club representatives were subjected to "threats'' by one SPFL board member, although the letter stated that Rangers have made several false allegations about corruption, coercion and bullying''.
The board members added that they would address to the "gross breaches of confidentiality'' in the Rangers document at a later date.