Helping Peter Lawwell look for his Voting Slip

Is it possible with Celtic announcing wage deferrals and dealing with media questions all day that that Peter Lawwell just jumped out his chesterfield chair and spilt his single malt on the shagpile shouting ‘Oh dear I forgot to vote!’

If he has I can almost forgive him, he has after all had a heck of a ‘To Do’ list for the last couple of weeks.

If not, we are in a very strange position where only one Scottish Premiership club has voted against today’s SPFL proposal.

Anne Budge or Stewart Robertson may have a bit of explaining to do, unless Peter Lawwell is currently throwing aside junk mail and Tesco receipts as he looks for his voting card.

Yet that discrepancy isn’t the strangest of outcomes in today’s SPFL voting soap opera. No that’s reserved for when a deadline isn’t a deadline, instead it’s a request and why the whole of Scottish football is now waiting on the deciding vote of one Championship club.

Or are we waiting? Perhaps they’ve abstained, perhaps the motion hasn’t been carried. Insert pencils up nose.

There is a genuine irony in a vote designed to bring clarity to Scottish football that we can’t even get the outcome clarified, or indeed the rules surrounding it.

The fact is at the time of writing no-one knows. What a shambles! This must be the only live vote I’ve ever seen where the presiding officer says we’ll see you in 28 days for the deciding vote. Perhaps.

Your half expecting the Eastenders theme tune to roll. In fact a bit of blue sky thinking from Neil Doncaster and Sky TV might have bought the rights to this. Perhaps they will for the recount.

Thre is one advantage however I do feel I can call on personally. The next time my boss at work calls me into the office regarding a missed deadline, I can politely point out that in my view there was no deadline, only a request and I’ll have it in the in-tray within the month.

So where are we at? Leagues One and Two have done their bit, 16 votes for and only 15 was required. The Scottish Premiership has seen 10 votes for and strangely only one against. While in the Championship one club is either wishing to play kingmaker, has abstained or is enjoying a beer in the garden, as they’ve returned two votes against and seven votes for, when we need eight for the vote to carry.

This could all be resolved and explained if Neil Doncaster would release a quick statement. I’m sure there is a reasonable explanation for what looks a colossal cock-up. Perhaps he’s helping Peter Lawwell look for his voting slip.

I cannot wait for how they’re going to spin this one. Any self-respecting soap opera would reject this plotline as being far too ludicrous. So much for a Good Friday.

Niall J

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