Ferguson and McGregor have been told their Scotland careers are over

Barry Ferguson and Allan McGregor will be the only players to be punished as a result of the Scottish FA's investigation into so-called Boozegate.

The Rangers pair were told they would not play for Scotland again after making V-signs while sitting on the bench during the match against Iceland.

Scott Brown, Gary Teale, Alan Hutton and Steven Whittaker were implicated in an earlier drinking session.

But an SFA report will make it clear that they have no case to answer.

Team manager George Burley is also likely to escape censure despite allowing the players to drink but will have to answer questions about the affair when it is raised at Thursday's SFA board meeting.

The drinking session at Cameron House Hotel on the shores of Loch Lomond followed the squad's 0400 BST return from a 3-0 World Cup qualifying defeat in Netherlands.

Food was laid-on for players and staff, while the players were permitted to have a drink.

However, the events that followed led to midfielder Barry Ferguson and goalkeeper McGregor being dropped to the bench for the match four days later against Iceland because of their behaviour.

Many different accounts and claims of what went on have since been reported in the media, leading SFA president George Peat to suggest that action could be taken if other players were deemed to have conducted themselves inappropriately.

However, an investigation has subsequently found that Celtic's Brown, Derby's Teale, Tottenham's Hutton and Rangers' Whittaker were all back in their rooms just after 0800, when bar staff suggested they retire.

Ferguson, who was Scotland captain, and McGregor, who had just deposed Craig Gordon as first-choice goalkeeper, were still up after mid-day and had to be told to go to bed by coach Steven Pressley.

That led to them being disciplined by Burley, who had hoped to draw a line under the affair until the pair made much-publicised offensive gestures to media cameras at Hampden.

Peat ordered a further investigation and the two Rangers players were told that their Scotland careers were over.

At the same time, Rangers announced that both had been suspended without pay for two weeks and it appears likely that they will leave the Scottish Premier League club in the summer.

Ferguson was also stripped of the Rangers captaincy.

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