Scottish Football Association director Gary Hughes is to step down on Wednesday following a row over an article in which he referred to Rangers fans as the “great unwashed”.
Rangers chairman Dave King had already called for Hughes to be suspended by the SFA after a photograph of a 2006 article from The Publican appeared in a newspaper.
Hughes, who was then chief executive of the trade magazine’s publisher, was credited as writing in a piece on Glasgow pubs: “The next best thing to being at Celtic Park (only the great unwashed venture south to Ibrox) is watching the
game, pint of Tennents in hand, with some like-minded souls.”