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Aberdeen chief Dave Cormack reckons either SPFL or SFA should be SCRAPPED

DAVE CORMACK reckons it’s time to streamline Scottish football - by SCRAPPING either the SPFL or SFA.

The Aberdeen chairman believes the governance of our game has become too bloated and things would improve if we switched back to one authority.

Cormack, who backed Rangers’ calls for an independent inquiry into the SPFL earlier this month, admits he’s now being viewed as a ‘troublemaker’ within the game.

But insists he won’t stop firing out ideas at a time when football needs an overhaul most.

He said: “I think there should be one organisation, why do we need more than one organisation in a country the size we are?

“If you put them together you get economies of scale.

“The reality is, you throw this up in the air - bring in a Deloitte or some consultants - and we all sign up for them to come up with a plan that’s best for Scottish football, I don’t think we’d have an SFA and an SPFL.

“To have clubs, good clubs who are maybe second division but with a few hundred fans but versus clubs who have tens of thousands of fans, it’s just so difficult.

“It’s impossible to get agreement.

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“The reality is, if we had one centre - lets say it’s the SFA that became one centre - why wouldn’t we have a full-time professional board looking after the needs of that, versus one looking after the part-time and amateurs.

“Football will continue to flourish, all these teams will be there.

“But, for me, if we want to do well as Scottish football then the way we govern ourselves has to be changed.

“You have people running around calling twenty or thirty clubs, lobbying clubs.

“We will say our bit, we will be straight about it, but I’m not hopeful, personally, about there being any change in governance in Scottish football.

“What we’ll do at Aberdeen is continue to talk to people, continue to share best practices and do our bit in the community.

“We will focus on Aberdeen, let everyone else knock themselves out because that’s the way it seems to want to go, and maybe I’ll be less labelled as a troublemaker for saying my piece.

“We’ll get on with clubs in Europe, maybe clubs in Scotland, and try to fight for a place when cross-border leagues take place.”

Cormack attracted criticism from some of his own fans for siding with the Gers, but he insists his standpoint was purely about governance -not other clubs.

Aberdeen’s board were unhappy with the short timescale given to look at documents before the initial vote and that’s what shaped their stance.

Speaking on ex-SPL chief Roger Mitchell’s Are You Not Entertained? podcast, he said: “Right at the beginning when this came out, us - all of the board - it was about the time given and the pressure to make a decision without having a bunch of information.

“That was the real principle behind it.”

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