ANN Budge, the Hearts chairman, has warned the SPFL voting system is holding back Scottish football and expressed her frustration at the failure to settle the long-running stand-off between Rangers and league sponsors cinch.
Hearts were one of five Premiership clubs – Aberdeen, Dundee, Dundee United and Hibernian were the others - which commissioned the Deloitte’s Sports Business Group to carry out a strategic review of how the governing body operates last year.
Deloitte recommended a “realignment from a largely administrative function to a more dynamic commercial structure” and a five year plan has been put in place which aims to increase revenue from just under £30m to £50m by 2029.
