RANGERS managing director Stewart Robertson last night dismissed claims the Ibrox club are attempting to prevent Celtic from being awarded the Ladbrokes Premiership title.

The Glasgow club want an independent investigation into the SPFL resolution on the end of the 2019/20 season and passed a “dossier of evidence” on to their fellow member clubs yesterday.

They are hoping they get enough backing – and they need 75 per cent support from the Premiership, Championship and League 1 and League 2 clubs - at an extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday.

Fans of Rangers, who were 13 points behind their city rivals in the top flight table when football was suspended due to the Covid-19 outbreak, are furious at Celtic being crowned champions on a points per game basis.

However, Robertson, who is an SPFL board member, insisted their motivations were a concern about corporate governance at the governing body and a desire to force through positive change.

The former Motherwell official claimed clubs had been treated without any respect since the shutdown and described the standard of executive leadership as the worst he had ever witnessed in five separate spells on the board.

“To be absolutely clear this has never been a Rangers-Celtic thing,” he said. “I can get why people are maybe thinking the narrative is ‘we didn’t want Celtic to be awarded the league title’. I understand that it’s obviously the case that people would say that.

“We always wanted to play the games if practically possible given everything that’s going on and the challenges everyone is facing in their lives right now. We would rather play the games.

“As time goes on that’s looking less likely to happen. We’re all pragmatic about that. This is about looking at Scottish football as a whole and looking at the greater good.

“This isn’t about Rangers and Celtic, it’s about the governance of our game and having faith that when we come out of this pandemic and this crisis that we have the right leaders to take us forward and people with energy, good ideas, creativity and commercial nous that is going to help us generate revenues we’ll need to replace some of the revenues we’ll need coming out of this.

“People are going to look at the world from a different viewpoint because the world is going to be different after this. The transfer market will be different, the broadcast market, everything. We will need to be as flexible as possible.

“What we can’t be is in a situation where the first answer you get to every question is ‘no you can’t do that, you’re not allowed to do that in the rules’. Well, let’s look at changing the rules then. That’s one of my frustrations and this has really brought it to the boil.”

Robertson added: “This procedure and process showed absolutely no respect for those members who aren’t on the board. This is about doing the best for Scottish football, it’s not about me being on a crusade for Rangers against anyone in particular.

“It’s about looking at the governance of the game. I’ve now had five stints on the SPL or SPFL board between 2003 and now - this is the worst the governance has been by a country mile.”