Highland League club missed the cut-off date for SPFL licence and unfortunately rules are rules even when it stings
You’ve got the chocolate bar. You’ve got the mop of blond hair. Your possibly polyamorous grandparents watch on with glee from their frankly baffling sleeping situation. But just because you’ve won the golden ticket, it doesn’t make you Charlie.conspiracists would do well to keep in mind the other four children who didn’t survive the factory tour on that fateful day as they protest Buckie Thistle’s predicament – or outrageous shock snub, depending on your penchant for the sensational.
What was conveniently ignored among the yelps of indignation and predictable condemnation of the SFA was the inconvenient truth that the governing body had notified all Highland and Lowland League clubs in December to remind them of the SPFL’s membership requirements. Last night chairman Stephen Shand took to his keyboard, again admitting to have missed the cut-off date for a grace period – “an error never to be repeated” – while the club website revealed they were considering arbitration. Despite this, it is understood the club contacted the SFA last night to make clear no such avenue would be pursued.
The more comfortable option for Thistle – indeed now the only option – is to stay put, consolidate, invest and in seasons to come take their chance when they are better equipped to compete.Spare a thought for Brechin City though who, after losing out on the title on goal difference, would have jumped at the chance to play East Kilbride this weekend had the rules allowed it.
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