THE dust had barely settled on the decision to deny a Rangers newco a place in the Scottish Premier League yesterday when the campaign to have them wedged into the Irn-Bru First Division was stepped up in earnest.
Stewart Regan, the Scottish Football Association's chief executive, laid bare in no uncertain terms the financial devastation he claimed would await a number of clubs if the Scottish Football League didn't play ball and instead elected to make Rangers begin life at the bottom of the heap in the third division. It was like a motor mechanic looking under the bonnet of a car, sucking in sharply through his teeth before shaking his head and muttering that "it's gonna cost ya".
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