Rangers captain David Weir has slammed Scotland's top brass for not helping SPL clubs in Europe. Weir insists the Hampden hierarchy don't do enough to help SPL clubs in Europe.

He said: "I don't think logic has ever played a part in things up here.

"If logic played a part you would help a team in a European final. To play four games in eight days to try and win a title when you play 38 in a season doesn't seem logical either. Looking back to 2008, you couldn't write the script. "It becomes a battle of wills rather than what is the right or best thing to do. We seem to think we have to watch what we do in case we upset this team or that team.

"That's the criteria for making decisions and until we get over that we will go round in circles.

"There's no getting away from the fact that the fixture list didn't help us in 2008. Zenit St Petersburg had a couple of weeks off before they played us in the UEFA Cup Final.

"Their season revolved around it and their federation helped them.

"Even this year Bursaspor played many of their games on a Friday night before Champions League games.

"It seems these people go out of their way to help their teams in Europe."