After they hatched their plan to blackmail Scottish Football League clubs into voting Newco into the First Division, Stewart Regan, Neil Doncaster and David Longmuir might have paused to wonder what reaction they would receive.
You better believe they didn’t anticipate the reaction today from Clyde and Raith Rovers. Rovers chairman, Turnbull Hutton, told BBC Scotland’s Jim Spence, “If we are at the stage of bending rules and accommodating, threatening and blackmailing, we want to give it up.”
“Bending rules… threatening… blackmailing…we want to give it up”.
Hutton went on to suggest heads should roll at the SFL, SFA and SPL. He’s the first from within the football establishment to call for sackings but he’ll not be the last.
An extensive statement by Clyde FC concluded, “The papers include a proposal to allow a Newco to enter the 1st Division. This is contrary to the rules of the SFL and nothing within the papers justifies this proposal.”
Regan, Doncaster and Longmuir will now be contemplating that their bully-boy tactics will fail. SLF clubs will vote against their recommendations and SPL clubs will not stop promotion from the lower leagues based on merit. It looks like abject failure of leadership.
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If Doncaster has gone Rangers’ last chance has gone with him.
However,despite how poorly the newco fiasco has been handled by Regan and Doncaster we must remember that the huns’ downfall has coincided with their watch. Would the outcome have been the same without outsiders in their positions?
We have to make sure that the tried, tested and failed way of promoting from within the Hun corridors doesn’t happen again. It’s why we are where we are today.
Ogilvie next.
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain
SPL staff bemused at the amount of time Neil Doncaster is spending in London when there is much SPL stuff to do in Glasgow.
Must be trying to rent a flat!!
kitalba on 1 July, 2012 at 11:36 said:
I steadfastly refuse to “Respect your feckin arse.”………..!!
Notable dates for July:
July 2 – Celtic 1st team report for pre-season training
July 3 – SFL Board Meeting
July 4 – SPL Board Meeting
July 10 – Celtic v Augsburg (Away) Friendly
July 15 – Celtic v Stuttgart Kickers (Away) Friendly
July 17 – Celtic v Vfr Aalen (Away) Friendly
July 20 – Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round Draw
July 21 – Celtic v Ajax (Away) Friendly
July 24 – Celtic v Norwich (Home) Friendly
July 31 – Champions League 3rd Qualifying Round 1st Leg
I am absolutely delighted that we have signed Fraser Forster on a permanent deal.
He performed very well away from home in our Europa league fixtures . After his last minute penalty save against Hearts last December ,his confidence soared and he grew to fit the Celtic shirt.
He is about to become Celtic’s greatest ever keeper.
It is my hope that when the news of his signing is announced officially by GCFC that it is a five year contract.
This Bhoy will play for England someday.
Well done to whoever scouted him in the first place for Celtic.
TT
67Heaven:
I’m hurt.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 1 July, 2012 at 10:42 said:
The major problem the SFA/SPL have is a combination of not being able to fix a problem with the mind that created it and the mind that created it not wanting something external to be accounatble to because……
other minds will stop them thinking they can solve the problem and so recreating themselves. Somehow external influence needs to be brought to bear and some pressure is coming from supporters. I think this pressure is creating the environment where the SG can get involved. If anyone should know about governance in terms of the mechanics of administration, accountability and reporting lines with breaks to stop it all becoming cozy then it is government with a small “g” (to separate the suggestion from Politics and Politicians with a capital “P”.
In England a couple of years back a Working Party of MPs voluntarily embarked on a review of the game in England, spurrred by fears of financial meltdown and the damage excessive money was causing football.
It is all covered in the following which is the kind of thing I would expect Supporters Direct to be doing. It concentrates on what is now the key area accountability to supporters and suggests how this might be brought about. If the UK Government found a way to take a lead in football via a volunteer Working Party then why not the SG?
DRAFT
Dear Margo
(Copied to First Minister, Alex Salmond)
We are writing to you (on behalf of ——) in your capacity as Chairperson of Cross-Party Group on Sport at Hollyrood concerning the matter of the governance of Scottish football, where the unfolding saga at Glasgow Rangers FC suggests that whilst the SFA have made some reform inroads in response to the Henry McLeish recommendations in terms of transparency, much still needs to be done on accountability and other issues.
The SFA are the organisation charged with the care of a sport that does form a major part of the fabric of Scottish society and their lack of accountability and clarity of authority raises “fit for purpose” questions.
We appreciate that governments as a matter of policy do not get involved in football matters but we note that in England in 2008 and 2009 an All Party Parliamentary Football Group
http://www.allpartyfootball.com/about.htm and
http://www.allpartyfootball.com/about.htm
looked at the governance of English Football and following their investigations produced a report in April 2009 “ English Football and its Governance”
http://www.allpartyfootball.com/APFG_Report_on_English_Football_&_Its_Governance_April_2009%5b1%5d.pdf
The integrity of the game in Scotland has all but been destroyed, not just by what has happened at Rangers, but by the handling of the consequential emerging issues by the SPL and SFA. Both seem ultimately unaccountable to anyone in Scotland and unclear on their respective responsibilities to each other and the game in general. We are therefore writing to suggest that the Scottish government could adopt a similar approach as in England and have an all party enquiry to look at:
1. The accountability of the SFA
2. clarity of roles and responsibilities between the various authorities (SFA/SPL etc)
3. If any of the recommendations in the English report are applicable here, particularly Chapter Three in terms of improved accountability.
There is no record of FIFA/UEFA objection to this approach; in fact they might welcome the input of a similar all party enquiry to restore confidence in the governance of the game in Scotland as would the Scottish Public.
We appreciate that the all party group in England consisted of volunteers but such is the passion for the game in this country we think there will be a cohort of the willing, including supporters trusts and associations to take part.
We await your views and the views of the First Minister to whom this is copied with interest.
Paul67
The site’s died. New article please :))
Weefra HH
Bomber Brown nails his colours to the mast
By Hugh Keevins on Jul 1, 12 07:15 AM in
I VIVIDLY remember the night true blue John Brown refused to eat his pudding because it was green and white.
We were at the St Andrews Sporting Club for a night of wine-and-dine boxing and dinner had reached the dessert course.
That’s normally the point in the evening by which the red wine has kicked in and conviviality is at its height, but the menu got in the way on this occasion.
The jelly served up turned out to be lime in flavour and the ice cream was of the vanilla variety.
The colour co-ordination was indigestible for Bomber and he pushed his plate to one side with the kind of authority he used to exert over opposing attackers when he was wearing a Rangers jersey.
It was a sign, of sorts, of devotion to the cause I suppose.
It also displayed the kind of Rangers man of the people credentials that drew hundreds
to hear Brown speak at Ibrox on Wednesday at the start of his proposed takeover bid for the club.
But enough is enough.
Rangers require tens of millions of pounds to extricate themselves from the mess they’re in.
Protesters refusing to buy pies at matches to deny Charles Green money, as per Bomber’s instruction, won’t register with the International Monetary Fund.
Bomber’s rhetoric appeals to his audience but it isn’t helping anybody move forward.
This week it’s time for the game’s movers and shakers to get real and do what’s best for the future, even if it’s through gritted teeth and with their eyes closed while absorbing the pain.
Football’s first commandment is, was and always will be look after number one, and that’s what the SFA, the SPL and the SFL will do when they hold their various
meetings over the next few days.
I know it’s a conspiracy. You know it’s a conspiracy and they know it’s a conspiracy.
But it’s conspire or expire when it comes to parachuting Rangers into the First Division and seeing if the game can recover from the damage that’s already been done.
And the collateral damage isn’t confined to the chaos on the park. Turnbull Hutton’s emails would have been good reading over the last few days – I don’t think.
The Raith director was a private citizen and doubtless a pillar of the local community until he spoke out and opposed Rangers avoiding a new start in Division Three.
He stated his club could hardly be sympathetic towards an Ibrox support whose extremist element had threatened to torch Stark’s Park.
The arsonists had assembled after another Rovers board member, Eric Drysdale, had received death threats following his appearance on the independent panel that imposed a 12-month transfer ban on Rangers.
Is this really what we’ve become? Pyromaniacs and dangerous threats to the personal safety of others?
The likelihood is our game has already been permanently damaged by the fall-out from
Rangers’ journey through administration into liquidation.
Boycotts and bad feeling will follow us for years to come, but there’s a game to be saved in the meantime. Or what’s left of one.
Rangers going into the Third Division might be best for all concerned because it would mean a three-year cooling off period and that could dampen the enthusiasm for public order offences.
But it’ll be a warm day in Minsk before it’s a good idea for the wellbeing of the game as a whole.
Falkirk boss Steven Pressley is correct when he says the compromise arrangements
being made are designed purely to accommodate Rangers.
But if that’s what saves financial hardship on an industrial scale from taking place then that’s what will happen over the coming days.
The game has no moral compass. There is no moral high ground for anyone to occupy.
We’re now in a state caused by one club’s financial irregularities and the way out of it is to make the rules up as we go along.
And if Rangers are relegated for the first time, suffer banishment from Europe for three years and have to build a team from scratch following the mass defection of their best players, does that not beg one question.
Have we approached the stage where the club has received punishment on an appropriate scale for the nature of the offences that took place inside Ibrox?
Or, as Bomber might say, have they had their just desserts?
Older/Newer
kitalba on 1 July, 2012 at 11:34 said:
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: > )))
Meant to add…….When SFA office bearers resign, could they please take keevins with them..
To summarise Keevins: Bomber disnae like jelly and ice-cream!
ShockerooniCSC
And they wonder why we have no respect for the MSM, with a few notable exceptions
Rangers (LanLiq): Languishing in Liquidation
Any Locksmiths out there?
I tried to lock my door this morning only for a strange noise to come off the handle and now i cant open the door.
Help
That column from Keevins is an absolute joke.
He is telling us that the dead Parrot will be in Division1 come Wednesday or trying to get this to pass.
YOU HAVE NO CHANCE UNLESS SOME BIGGER FORM OF CHEATING COMES ALONG
As for the it’ll be a warm day in Minsk piffle – does he ever look at European summers, or eastern European summer temperatures? Slovakia is 36 degrees today and blooming warm. Minsk is not in Antarctica.
A cretin with an agenda.
As for Bomber, he didn’t eat the ice cream because it was green. Another psychological problem with ra peepel. Hatred of all things green – pathetic remnants of something soon (hopefully) to die out with the death of an institution who promoted hatred for all things green.
It’d be like Celtic fans never buying blue jeans.
Will Keevenism take over from Quisling.
Wait a minute…….what’s all the subtle stuff about any reincarnation of a competely dead club being shoehorned even into Div3 ? Any football club wishing to play in any part of the SFL has to apply and then,on consideration,meet strict criteria. And in the case of the well known dead club there would have to be extremely careful scrutiny of its hydra like re-emergence.
Some of the manically arrogant ‘fans’ of the non-existent club say,”We’ll go down to the third division and batter our way through Scotland back to the top and then we’ll conquer Europe ! And we’ ll financially ruin all of you coz wearrapeepil ! ”
What?!
There is no ‘peepil’. There is no rfc.
There are the citizen fans of Scottish football,and we have spoken. We want a fair game. And this is the time for that to occur after the exposé of the biggest scandal to hit the footballing world.
It is still an emerging scandal and there is yet much to be revealed.
But,in the meantime,the scurrilous club at the centre of this corrupt web is dead and buried. No pale shadow need think it can just waltz back into the game with its brutal sense of entitlement intact and ready to resume its vicious tactics.
Not now. Not ever. Never again.
There’s a supreme arrogance to this perpetual insistence, all from people who are _not_ currently running a football club, that clubs will go to the wall without rangers.
Doncaster, Regan, Longmuir, are all now sharing company with that financial superpower Hugh Keevins in their insistence that they know each clubs finances, their revenue streams, their costs; and are better able to estimate the impact on each of those lines in the balance sheet better than CFOs who have been monitoring these elements for years.
Keevins, of course, being the same financial heavyweight who abjectly failed to see rangers demise coming. He’s clearly changed his tune regarding his insistence that he’s a sports and not a financial journalist.
Y’know…..if the bigots hate green that much,it’s a wonder they ever managed to kick a ball on all that grass stuff.
It’d be like us resenting the sky,or disliking The Who (in their red,white & blue mod phase).
So as it stands Green is their only hope of a Zombie F.C as he holds the title deeds.So ex player Bomber tells all to never spend a penny re season tickets etc .as long as Green is the owner.
No players and if bomber is listened to no fans, no league and no chance if putting any resemblance of a football club together in a matter of weeks.
SFA and SPL in self destruct mode having failed in the self preservation campaign.
Celtic keeping all their powder dry in a massive P.R victory.
Whats not to like.
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miki67 on 1 July, 2012 at 12:22 said:
Made me think of Tannadice in the snow one day. Celtic played much better once they got to kick the orange ball about.
miki67,
There are a few in our fanbase who have the same irrational outlook but nothing compared to them.
I knew someone once who refused to eat fish on a Friday because that’s what Catholics do. Not sure what she thought would happen if she ate fish though!
Keevins is a straw man….a consummate flip-flopper who bends to the prevailing idiot wind blowing through the caverns of his flyblown mind.
Even tumbleweeds avoid the desert of his bombast as he drones on in pompous tones about the latest lies he and his msm cronies vomit forth on a daily basis in their fatuous attempts to pander to the lowest common denomination : the church of the bigoted orc.
Yeah,he’s a fud.
miki67 at 12:22
There was always a rumour that David Murray imported Missisippi Blue Sawgrass for Ibrox so he could say that even the grass was blue at Ibrox
Not sure how much truth is in that however I did hear it mentioned a few times that the type of grass used at Ibrox was not helping the flooding etc that meant some games were cancelled in the winter months.
Might be fiction but have a base in fact somewhere along the lines :)
Gordon_J
According to PG Wodehouse, it would have been good for that person’s brain-power. A self-fulfilling prophecy, maybe. If she’d had more brain-power she’d have eaten fish if she wanted. If she had eaten fish, she’d have had more brain-power.
A tricky one.
They banned pepperamis, green straws, Catholics, eggs benedict, Players from ROI, charged £16.90 for Christmas meals etc
And still, they died.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 1 July, 2012 at 12:25 said:
>>>>
She might’ve got some essential oils and vitamins and actually started thinking for herself. And if the orcs ever did that there would be self-destruction en masse. Well…….maybe at least just a smidgin of contrition.
Michel Platini coming to Ireland soon to present an award to ROI fans in recognition of their conduct and support for their team dring the EUROs.
Sounds familiar.
Celtic_First,
Too deep for me …
roy croppie on 1 July, 2012 at 12:30 said:
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1+6+9+0 = 16
1+6 = 7
7 is a lovely number.
That’s numerology for you. And since football is nigh on finished in Scotland,I may as well play silly games like that.
I am getting so very scunnered with the way ‘the establishment’ is pulling out all the stops it can to rescue the worst excesses of bigotry to keep Scotland the little Victorian biscuit tin they like to hold warm in their cosy wee minds.
TinyTim on 1 July, 2012 at 11:48 said:
I am absolutely delighted that we have signed Fraser Forster on a permanent deal.
He performed very well away from home in our Europa league fixtures . After his last minute penalty save against Hearts last December ,his confidence soared and he grew to fit the Celtic shirt.
He is about to become Celtic’s greatest ever keeper.
===
Steady that man. Greatest ever keeper! I’d be happy If he turns out close to Artur at his best then we will have a top class keeper. IMO until then he is a young decent keeper with a lot of potential. Glad to see he signed albeit i didn’t think he would.
THG
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Igwdc6T7YoY&feature=player_detailpage
HH
lucky number 7 on 1 July, 2012 at 12:29 said:
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Yeah…I seem to remember reading that. As for Kentucky…..have you ever watched ‘Justified’? Makes Glasgow look tame!
:-)
Keevins is another who would benefit from a swift yin to the haw-mawgenous zone.
He just will not give up on his paymasters agenda and to hell with the game itself.
Rank n file Murrayite.
miki67
all this change will be too much for many of them. Their cosy bigotry and dominance at any price is going and their figurehead club is dead. Changes in governance are coming and it will never be the same again.
Some of the MSM are even getting there.
Keevins article secures him a couple of free tickets fae TG for the boxing…time to retire officially Hugh.
Epiphany! THAT’s why the orcs are goin’ mental about Prince Chuckie….he’s ‘Green’.No other reason….they don’t care about dodgy finance (that’s normal on panet ranker)….it’s coz his name is the hue of the anti-christ in their poxy wee toaly filled excuses for minds.
Miki67
Exactly. I wish someone in MMS would stand up and correct all this talk about “punishing Rangers” and “sending them to the third division”.
This is a new club applying to join the third division. Rangers are dead. That’s not being pedantic, it’s just fact. No one is calling for “draconian punishments”. I don’t want punishments of any kind (except titles stripped from old co if they used undeclared payments). We all want a clean slate for the new club ie apply to 3rd division, no punishments or sanctions applied.
I saw Graham Spiers on twitting moaning about Celtic fans referring to Sevco as “sevco” instead of Rangers. Rangerstaxcase enjoyed pointing out that that is their name. Spiers’ claim that it was only mad Celtic fans who insisted on calling them by their real name is weakened when listening to wee steven “gaun’ yirsel’ naisy” Naismith.
On a separate note, how depressing that think that the best contribution a professional sports journalist in his 60’s can make to this story is to write about colours of desserts which John Brown refuses to eat. All I can say when I read drivel like that is thank God for Paul67 and the Internet Bampots.
If only the gremlin that is known as shug Keevins was in the ring at st Andrews club with let’s say Tyson or lewis, and not fine dining with the bigot ned bomar broon we could have knocked some sense into the wee “baw a’ s***e”!
The sports churnalist clearly has not understood that footballs first commandment is all about integrity and not
“Football’s first commandment is, was and always will be look after number one, and that’s what the SFA, the SPL and the SFL will do when they hold their various
meetings over the next few days”
Hugh, who exactly is/was number one?
Also the award winning churnalist cannot grasp that the club formerly known as rANGERs are defunct, deceased, dead, imploded!
They cannot be relegated – why???? Because, yes you guessed it- they are defunct!
They cannot be banished from Europe – why??? Because, yes you guessed it they are defunct!
So why they following statement made column inches is BEWILDERING:
“And if Rangers are relegated for the first time, suffer banishment from Europe for three years”
SHOCKING, however some will still buy this rag and in doing so, will fund this idiot!