Scotland's football authorities are to enter a desperate race against time to oversee a league reconstruction model aimed at preventing Rangers from starting next season in the Third Division.
The scale of the crisis engulfing Scottish football is such that it would be bold to assert the new season will actually get under way as scheduled. Lost in the melee of the never-ending and routinely toxic Rangers affair is the imminent scrap between Dundee and Dunfermline over who will replace the fallen Glasgow giants in the Scottish Premier League, which could become a legal battle.
