Queen's Park and SFA argue over fee for Hampden Park

According to 'Sportsmail', a decision on the national stadium's future has hit a crossroads as the SFA have only offered £2m, though the governing body wish to decide by the end of the month on whether to continue at Hampden Park in Glasgow or move to Edinburgh's Murrayfield, the venue for Scottish rugby internationals. 

The SFA have expressed to Queen's Park that if they do not agree to the sale of Hampden then they will move to Edinburgh, in an effort to reduce the asking price. 

Queen's Park are the only amateur club still playing in the Scottish football league, and are also the country's oldest team. With the help of independent surveys the 'Spiders' have established that the land on which Hampden stands is worth over £20m to developers, though the club will be faced with £16m worth of grant and loan repayments if the SFA bail out which has led to the asking price being reduced to £6m.

Unless an agreement is made, Queen's Park may risk pricing themselves into admininstration.

A cross-party group of Glasgow MPs have claimed that leaving the city's national stadium would be 'devastating' to Scottish football. MP Stewart McDonald wrote: "To lose Hampden as Scotland's national stadium, and thus threaten the future of Queen's Park - an enormous part of our heritage - would be devastating.

"We do not believe that moving to Murrayfield is a suitable option.

"A move to Murrayfield not only opens up a world of unknowns for Scottish football and threatens the vibrancy of communities surrounding Hampden, but also creates an uneven playing field for the distribution of the most popular sport in Scotland."