IF you threw a dart at random into any Scottish football crowd, the chances are you would hit someone who would gladly tell you that Neil Doncaster and his fellow ‘blazerati’ at the SPFL and SFA are running the Scottish game into the ground.
Doncaster himself is all too aware that a man in his position as chief executive of the SPFL is unlikely to win any popularity contests, particularly when you have been in that position for as long as he has.
But as he trumpeted the details of the extension of the SPFL’s broadcasting deal with Sky yesterday, a key theme of his conversation with Herald Sport was his own desire – and that of the majority of stakeholders within the game – to protect Scottish football, and everything that makes it unique. As well as the most attended league in Europe, per capita.
