Hearts Take Legal Action After Reconstruction Plan Snubbed
Fahad Shabbir (@FahadShabbir) Published June 15, 2020 | 08:51 PM
Glasgow, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Jun, 2020 ) :Hearts will take legal action after Scottish clubs rejected plans to restructure the league following the decision to end the season due to the coronavirus.
Only 16 of the 42 Scottish teams backed the proposal to change the make-up of the four divisions.
The idea was for 14 teams in the Premiership and 10 in each of the three lower leagues.
The change needed 11 of the 12 Premiership clubs to vote in favour, along with at least six Championship clubs and 75 per cent of the league overall.
Monday's informal vote means Hearts have had their relegation from the Premiership ratified, but the Edinburgh club immediately responded by revealing their legal move.
"Now that all other avenues are closed, we are left with no choice but to proceed with a legal challenge," Hearts said in a statement.
"The club has tried throughout these last few months to avoid this course of action but we must now do the right thing by our supporters, our employees, our players and our sponsors.
"We have stated from the beginning that the unjust and unfair treatment of Hearts, Partick Thistle, Stranraer, and indeed other clubs, cannot be allowed to go unchallenged.
"This was the final opportunity for kinship to prevail and for Scottish football to stand together in an emergency. It is an unfortunate condemnation of Scottish football that this was not possible." It was also confirmed that Championship clubs had approved a reduced 27-game campaign, which is scheduled to kick off in October.
Raith Rovers were declared League One winners and will be in the second tier in 2020/21, while Partick Thistle have been relegated to League One.
"Whilst a number of clubs were in favour of a new divisional set-up, the support for it was insufficient and we will now move forward with a fixture programme for season 2020/21 based on the current 12-10-10-10 structure," SPFL chief executive Neil Doncaster said.
"Due to the restrictions forced upon us by the coronavirus outbreak, the Championship clubs also voted overwhelmingly to play each other three times next season, rather than four, which enables a later start to the Championship league season."The new Premiership season will start on the weekend of August 1 while the Championship season will begin on the weekend of October 17.
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