Despite one former Rangers chairman, Sir David Murray, denying his board issued second contracts to players which were not registered with the football authorities for a period of a decade or more, a more recent chairman, Alastair Johnston, yesterday accepted that the club were guilty of a “breach of procedure” over player payments.
This being the case, Celtic Quick News will not be so quick in future to blindly accept despatches from Sir David as unerringly accurate. If Mr Johnston insists procedure was breached, that’s good enough for us.
The only matter left is what course of action the SPL, SFL and SFA should follow. On all previous occasions when a club has been guilty of a procedural breach over the registration of a player, the result of any game involving that player has been awarded as a 3-0 win to the opposition and the club have been punished.
On assessing the punishment the SPL Commission looking into this matter will consider if Rangers acted with transparency, with information given openly and when asked, or if breaches were hidden, denied to have taken place, and only uncovered after redacted contracts appeared in the press forcing the authorities to set a deadline on the club.
Mr Johnston insists that “Rangers made absolutely no attempt to disguise” the use of EBTs. Attempts to disguise wrongdoing is serious. This claim is correct but is completely irrelevant to the SPL Commission, who are solely concerned with player registration, not whether EBTs were used or not.
Mr Johnston makes no comment on whether Rangers made an attempt to disguise issuing players with second contracts.
He goes on to say, “I suspect that the [SPL] commission will not pursue this avenue of investigation, but it would be interesting whether or not ‘selective amnesia’ would be exhibited by those executives/directors called to testify under oath about their ongoing familiarity with the Rangers scheme.”
The SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie was a director of Rangers for the first five years of the clubs EBT use and benefited from an EBT himself. Despite these revelations from Mr Johnston, Mr Ogilvie still walks the corridors of power, president of our national game. It would be remarkable to see him testify under oath about the scheme Rangers operated while he was legally responsible for their decisions.
Cynics may suggest that Mr Johnston infers that executives at other clubs were aware of Rangers use of un-registered second contracts. It would be quite astonishing if this was the case and an enormous breach of commercial confidentiality by Rangers.
Looking forward to Raith Rovers in the League Cup tonight. Should be an excellent opportunity for Neil to shuffle the pack and try a few things.
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obbofant1888 @12.52
Now that`s what I call timing!
The motherwell v the rabbits is not on telly tomorrow night as motherwell are expected to win, err, well.
miki67
You can watch the full game against Murderwell on Alba at 5:00 on Saturday. The Raith game is on Celtic TV so you will be able to access an on-line stream somewhere.
HH
Burnistoun b(h)oys on real radio a few weeks ago talking about the new show.
Listen out for Robert Florence’s comments about how they were paid, showing his true colours and they’re green and white I think.
http://www.realradio-scotland.co.uk/shows/real-radio-breakfast/burnistoun-boys-on-real-radio/b88d0
Brilliant stuff!
HH
/Bishop B
Apoptosis!
Is that no they wee jam filled biscuits ye put in the toaster?
Maybe not.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30ec_5WplS0
for those of a donegal persuasion
Sevco v Murderwell is on BBC Scotland.
No such thing as an honest mason/hun…..it’s at the heart of their love of secrecy and backstabbing deals….dishonesty. They can’t even tell themselves the truth. Compromised to the point of paralysis. Frozen by the relentless light of truth coming from every direction.
Falling on ther own swords would be the honourable thing to do: but there is no such thing as honour amongst that shower either. The last few months have proved that beyond all doubt.
I await the coming statement from the sfa. I will bet my life that it’s a mealymouthed, weak and watery stream of gruel designed to pander to the blue hordes.
Simpering. Fearful. Apathetic.
Lead by Ogilvie.
Contemptible.
The huns are yet again being subsidised by Shortbread,Murderwell game live on BBC 1 Scotland.
48th
Tonight’s game is not on TV.
I can’t even find a highlights package.
asonofdan
>>>>>
Ta.
HH!
Great new piece by Alex Thomson. He sure does know how to hit the nail on the head. Worth a read.
Does anyone on here believe that should HMRC find oldco guilty in the big tax case that they will forward the bill onto newco? They are claiming to be the same club after all…
may I be the first jackie mac to congratulate Murderwell on their league position. Open competition , welcome back !
Great to see Joe Ledley and Kayal back in action.
Massive boost to our Champions Lg prospects.
DBBIA @ 12:53,
I doubt it’s as simple as that.
I can hear that famous bell tolling. Sounds to me that thon deid team’s day has come. Not a day too soon. I trust those responsible for their cheating will shortly be helping the police with their enquiries.
Apologies for bad taste in advance.
From the FF Fanzine:
Whilst on his whistle stop tour of four cities – Toronto, New York, Orlando and Houston – in four days to speak to North American supporters’ groups and discuss commercial and sporting partnerships – including a potential link-up with some cowboys in Dallas, Charles Green visited the Magnificent MYstic Mucus in Harlem, New York City. Mr Mucus is a celebrated clairvoyant in the city who is renowned for his predictions and his “psychic readings”- the Magnificent MYstic Mucus spits special “psychic phlegm” into an old handkerchief and then “reads” the meaning of the patterns in the snotters.
“Its like reading a palm or a crystal ball…except its respiratory tract secretions grogged onto a hanky” insisted Mr Mucus. He then places a piece of paper to his client who then reads his prediction. The Magnificent Mister Mucus would not be drawn on what Mr Greens snot inspired prognostication actually was.
Later on a close member of Greens coterie, describing himself only as “Bommer”, revealed to us that Mr Mucus had written the following words: “Either I have the cold or I see a lot of Green…You have entered a maze with all the exits bricked up and doom forever stalks you wherever you roam- You and your people sir, are prey to long devastation.”
Mr Green was not available for comment.
As the huns/ Sevco are not co-operating with the Dual Contracts Inquiry,do they forfeit any right of appeal to any punishments?
The zombies are indulging in an orgy of moronism today…makes for interesting reading.
!!Bada Bing!!
Am back on,wituwantin?
Just checked all the schedules!
And the game is definately on…
AT CELTIC PARK
MWD (YOU SHOULD HAVE BOUGHT YOUR TI-I-CKETS!)
the result of any game involving that player has been awarded as a 3-0 win to the opposition and the club have been punished.
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if i was in charge it would be 3-0 for every ringer played.
39-0 results. (2 subs used).
Bada bing
Going on what I’ve read, if they don’t participate in the investigation it will make any appeal much more difficult
Dontbrattbakkinanger
12:53 on 25 September, 2012
Apoptosis, word of the day;
Make sense to me, yMurph and yStarsk
ycurl
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Ole Dick -few things in life are.
thomthethim 11:07
Thanks my bhoy for your update and reflections of our Sean Og’s discussion. I remember your optimism even then when it looked like (at least I thought) that Cork would be too strong for us. My cousin T was in same frame of mind. Met him before the game and he was like a coiled spring, very nervous. He loosened up considerably by 5.30pm though!
Met a guy (never got his name) at The Harcourt Hotel (where half of Donegal seemed to be celebrating) who I was standing next to in Sharkeys at the Kerry match…balding guy / late 40’s early 50’s wearing a threadbare ‘92 Donegal jersey…..he knew you anyway so I passed on my regards.
If there are any links to Tommy’s interview with Jim can you pass on please….looking forward to DVD coming out so I can watch the whole match relaxed this time.
Saw (but no sound) Neil being interviewed on RTE at night.
Happy days, Up Tir Chonnail.
tully
Fat Sally getting his excuses in early.
“I think Stuart (McCall) and I will probably disagree on this but I would have to say Motherwell, being top of the SPL, are favourites.
“They’re the in-form side in the country at the moment and you’d have to say they will be expected to win.
“The fact we are going through a transitional period and we’ve a completely new team adds to that.
“But that aside, favourites can get beaten and I believe we can beat Motherwell tomorrow. Of course I do. We’ll be doing our damnedest to do that.
“The cup competitions provide an ideal situation for us to gauge how we are placed when we play against the top teams in the country.
“We’re doing that this week and it will give us an indication of where we are. It won’t be the end of the world if we don’t win the tie but I firmly believe we can.”
Mitt Romney with another doozy:
“When you have a fire in an aircraft, there’s no place to go, exactly, there’s no – and you can’t find any oxygen from outside the aircraft to get in the aircraft, because the windows don’t open. I don’t know why they don’t do that. It’s a real problem…”
It’s all getting very interesting again ……. How to defend the indefensible
Mad mc murdo at it again.
The worlds against them.
He’s totaly lost it,the fools on rm are falling for his drivel though.
A dangerous loony.hh
Interesting to hear the MSM on SSB trotting out old Chuckles “I am considerably richer than you” impression last night…even with vultures circling overhead…Chuckles is obviously suffering from myopia in his old age and the vultures are too far away for him to see even with goggles…but the problem is that vultures can wait a long time before they get their piece of the carcass…it reminds me of the Roman foundation-myth: Remus sees six vultures and Romulus sees twelve, and claimed superior vision as the basis of his right to decide.
Remus made a counterclaim: he saw his six vultures first and therefore his vision is superior…and soon where there is hypocrisy so too is strife in spades and Remus ends up dead in a trench…
pabloh_AKA_NEIL LENNON-Seems like that to me,but Legal Issues have a mind of their own.HH
VP-Is Murderwell game on in Vogue on Saturday ?
MWD, I have to admit, it’s not on my schedule, I will miss seeing the game live.
Can’t afford every game, and if one was going to slip, this was it.
ShameonmeCSC
Come off it, Coisty!
John Donne……
“No man is an Island, intire of it selfe; every man is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.”