The 12 SPL clubs – scheduled to meet at Hampden today – have proposed a new set-up featuring two divisions of 12 that will split into three leagues of eight.

That would require the support of a dozen SFL clubs, but Green believes many of them are still angry about events in the summer when there was concerted pressure put on them by the SPL and Scottish Football Association to vote the newco Rangers into the first division. The SFL clubs – whose preference is for a new league set-up of 16-10-16 – refused to buckle and put the club into the third division. Green believes that episode is still fresh in many minds.