Rangers in crisis: Scottish Football League's clubs deserve credit but SFA and SPL may deliver twist Inverness called an emergency board meeting on Friday night in the wake of the vote earlier in the day. Kilmarnock, St Mirren, Dundee United and even Champions League representatives Motherwell are also struggling to cope with the consequences. With the SPL a busted flush, they can either attempt to brazen it out by reversing their original decision to reject Sevco Scotland Ltd's application to have the Rangers oldco's membership transferred to them at Monday's annual meeting or admit that the jig is up and apply for membership of the SFL. Having two different league boards in a country as small as Scotland was always absurd: now it is obscene. Incidentally, when asked on Friday whether there would be play-offs in the SPL next season, a spokeswoman replied: "We're not making any comment on anything at the moment." There is, indeed, nothing left to say. Meanwhile, Charles Green, in a statement on Rangers" official website, said of the SFL vote: "This decision maintains the sporting integrity that clubs and fans across Scotland have been calling for but it also impacts massively on Scottish football as a whole and only time will tell what the consequences will be. "Rangers have been handed the ultimate punishment of starting again from the bottom of the leagues but there is an overwhelming feeling among fans and within the club of "wiping the slate clean" as a club free of sanctions." It is hard to know where to begin with that but the fact is that the club has not been punished. Rangers no longer exist as a football club and the newco can consider itself fortunate that its potential fanbase outweighed consideration of the fact that, unlike other applicants, they were unable to provide three years" audited accounts. Sevco Scotland Ltd must now decide whether they are willing to accept the transfer embargo imposed on them by the independent Judicial Panel before they will be granted SFA membership. Now that is a punishment but, given the circumstances, not as harsh as might have been expected. 10 things you may not have known about the Scottish third division 1) Rangers (assuming they are allowed to keep their history) can now become the first club to win all four Scottish divisions. 2) Sevco Scotland Ltd has been granted associate membership of the SFL, which means that they will have no voting rights for three years. 3) The SFL is sponsored by Irn-Bru, Scotland's other national drink. It's understood that drinks giant Barrs supply product rather than cash for the bulk of the deal. 4) Sevco will have only the second-biggest ground in Division Three. Queen's Park's capacity at Hampden is 52,500 - 1,418 more fans than Ibrox can hold. 5) Two of the clubs in the Third Division, Alloa Athletic and Annan Athletic, have never played a competitive match against Rangers in any of their previous incarnations. 6) Only two of the Third Division sides have faced Rangers (as was) in a league match. Clyde last played them for points at Shawfield on Feb 22 1975 while amateurs Queen's Park, in their last season in the top flight, won 2-1 at Ibrox on March 20, 1948. 7) There will be a scramble for tickets for away matches, particularly at Annan's Galabank, which has a capacity of 2007, with only 500 seats. 8) No Third Division club has ever reached the final of the Scottish Cup or the League Cup. 9) By joining the SFL, Sevco (assuming they are allowed to keep Rangers' history) will have the chance to add the Ramsdens Cup to their list of trophies won. 10) According to the SFL's website, Ramsdens is "the largest independently owned pawnbroking and financial services business in the UK."