Football rescue plan

In the height of the country’s football finance crisis, the Scottish Premier League chairman Lex Gold has revealed he requested help from the Chancellor of the Exchequer (ministry of finance). Gold penned a letter to Gordon Brown outlining the financial difficulties faced by clubs throughout the country and called on the government to help attract inward investment into the game. The Scottish Football Association has unveiled plans to regionalize the domestic game and has appointed Gareth McKenna to oversee the project. McKenna will present a map of Scotland and encouraged to mark the boundaries for the six new regions that will be fed a steady stream of the £ 31m funded jointly by the Scottish Executive, sportscotland and the Scottish Football Association. Meanwhile, the majority of member clubs want the Scottish Premier League to expand to a 20-club two-division structure, but according to Gold, no changes would be made for at least two seasons.

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