Scottish football chiefs have been accused of “relegating 200 clubs in one go” with their plans to create a new Conference division at tier five.
The blueprint would see a 10-team league made up of four Premiership B sides and six clubs from the Highland and Lowland Leagues and is being earmarked for 2024-25. But it has been slammed by Mick Kennedy, the manager of ambitious West of Scotland Premier League side Darvel who stunned Scottish football by knocking Aberdeen out of the Scottish Cup this year.
And he has urged Lowland and Highland clubs to block the proposal by refusing to take part. The Pyramid Working Group met on Tuesday and discussed the Conference idea. It would be funded by the Premiership sides taking part - expected to be Rangers, Celtic, Hearts and Aberdeen - and established as a separate company meaning there would be no need for the 75 per cent approval from SPFL clubs to vote it in.
