Morelos may not have been able to sign for Rangers under the proposals

Scottish football’s governing bodies have joined forces with their Northern Irish and Welsh counterparts and England’s Premier League to combat government plans that would give the FA the power to limit the number of foreign players that Scotland’s top clubs could sign post-Brexit.

The imminent departure of the UK from the European Union will inevitably pose myriad problems for the Home Office in terms of British citizens working abroad and non-nationals currently, or about to be, employed in the British Isles, so they are keen to wash their hands of the footballing side of things.

One of the options they favour is handing the FA a mandate to dictate a recruitment policy for themselves and the three other domestic associations. That possibility has, though, set