BEARGER 1,829 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 (edited) Club urged SFA not to help Rangers in 2008, says George Peat 38 minutes ago From the sectionRangers Rangers lost 2-0 to Zenit St Petersburg in the 2008 Uefa Cup final Former Scottish FA president George Peat says a club chairman urged him "not to help Rangers in any way" amid a fixture backlog in 2008. The Ibrox side were competing on three fronts near the end of season 2007-08, having already won the League Cup. They lost the Uefa Cup final to Zenit St Petersburg and finished second to Celtic in the Scottish Premier League but won the Scottish Cup. "The prominent club asked me not to and I refused," Peat told BBC Scotland. Rangers played five games over 11 days at the end of the 2007-08 season, with the SPL responsible for the league fixture scheduling and the SFA having oversight of the Scottish Cup. The Ibrox side had two league games in hand and the finale to the SPL campaign was delayed for top-half sides from 18 May to 22 May so all six teams finished on the same day. After losing to Zenit in Manchester on 14 May, Rangers played rearranged league fixtures against Motherwell (17 May) and St Mirren (19 May) before losing against Aberdeen on 22 May as Celtic beat Dundee United to finish top of the table with a three-point lead. Rangers then beat Queen of the South in the Scottish Cup final two days later. When discussing his presidency from 2007-11, Peat was asked about what disappointments he had from his time with the SFA. And he explained: "There were certain things that disappointed me. One in particular disappointed me. "I remember when Rangers got to the final in Manchester. I got a phone call from a prominent chairman of a club requesting me not to help Rangers in any way. "And it so happened that I had already had a meeting with Lex Gold at the SPL because what we were willing to do was to extend the season because of the fixture pile-up that Rangers had and I was most disappointed when I got back to the office to receive this call to ask me not to help them in any way. "That really stuck in my throat." Edited September 17, 2018 by BEARGER 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
alexscottislegend 2,057 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 I wonder who the club was... Just makes it all the greater achievement. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gonzo79 13,587 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Why didn't he just tell the chairman to piss off? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soulsonic5791 408 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Thanks for that George. Only ten years too late. 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlackSocksRedTops 3,473 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Surely it wasn't Celtic? They were far too busy sorting out their Tour of Japan.... 3 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
26th of foot 5,829 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 12 minutes ago, BlackSocksRedTops said: Surely it wasn't Celtic? They were far too busy sorting out their Tour of Japan.... I believe they are still organising the tour? 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Next they will be telling us a certain club pushed to get us dropped to the lowest division. Nah that is too much. As David said 10 years to late he should have been a man and brought it in the open then. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,765 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 51 minutes ago, alexscottislegend said: Just makes it all the greater achievement. No, the point is that we might have achieved more. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ranger_syntax 3,765 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 https://twitter.com/johndcgow/status/1041730012393689090 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RANGERRAB 3,254 Posted September 17, 2018 Share Posted September 17, 2018 Is anyone surprised at this ? All Liewell was doing was trying to get his team an advantage to win the league. I’d expect our CEO or MD to do the same if it were the yahoos in the UEFA cup final. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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