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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Auldheid’s article – ‘The Overseas Season Book Scheme – Not Just An Emotional Commitment’
http://celticunderground.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=962%3Athe-overseas-season-book-scheme-not-just-an-emotional-commitment&catid=49%3Aseason-2012-2013&Itemid=85
Now this is KKK territory.
Meanwhile Over on FF Genesis says:
Not since the days of the firebrand preacher Pastor Jack Glass has Scotland had someone who stood up and told it like it is regards the Roman conspiracy that has been ongoing since the middle of the last century. These people are out to eliminate our whole proud British culture. It is nothing short of cultural genocide. Church Of Scotland and the Orange Order should hang their collective heads in shame. They have stood by and watched these people take over our once great nation.
The clock is ticking
Its high time people of this country realise that we in the majority need to start flexing our muscle we are run by mainly RC’s and snp/ labour scum. My old man used to say if you vote labour you vote catholic [ how right he was] if you let in one catholic you will be over run with them [how right he was] so lets stop this now no more voting snp/labour republicanism lets get protestants in to power before its too late. They are outsiders. They do not belong.
I attended Holytown Parish Church 1992/1993 exact year fails me, COS minister a one John Salmond, one and only brother of the wee Roman Loving SNP (Viechy) Alex, sermon pure Calvinist, wonder what John thinks of his sleekit brothers contemp for the True Protestant People of this once great land. They ground the COS down with accusations of COS ministers in the orders being sectarian, forcing them to leave, one last Protestant Institution left Glasgow Rangers.
They have flung all that the can to create the enemy within, and there is no doubt, we are now the enemy within.
We will remain the enemy within, until we save our land from the Roman, they call us sectarian, they call us heretics, then I am both, for I, my children and my childrens children will defy the Church Of Rome as long as we draw the breath of free men. We will fight until there is nothing left to fight with or for, battle until the Earth is scorched with the blood of the martyrs.
For We are the last of the Covenanters and We are rising once again to free this beloved land from the pestilence of Rome.
Mr John Salmond once said we did not do enough during the Reformation years, we didn’t purge deep enough, nor did we extirpate widely enough, this time We the last of the Covenanters will do enough to protect a free Scotland with the last bastion of Protestant Unionist people The Glasgow Rangers.
For Queen and Country my friends…….W.A.T.P.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19719079
M/Well manager says Sevco to win, they are the favorites
Both managers saying after you
A live game to miss
Hopefully the blog will also give it a miss tomorrow night
If Well get beat McCall should be fired!
Wull Tony get a start?
Ah think he should.
He is oor Very Best Prospect.
Fuggettaboot.. the New Strikers..
Ah wid Concentrate oan Bringing in Tony.
Tony, is oor Future…
Today’s Game is Tailor Made fur Gien Tony a Start.
But, Wull Neil. Bow tae Reason..and Yield?
Mebbe, he wull.. or. mebbe he is too hung up oan Trying oot his New Toys…
read… New Strikers..
Of Course, he could Drop Hoops.. and Pair Tony wi’ .. Wan o’ his New Strikers..
That’s A thought.
anywey…
We’ll See.
Kojo
Still.. Laughin’
lionroars67-Might be worth a watch mate,to see the Mullet fold again before his masters.I wonder how many he will “rest ” before Saturday ?
wonkyradar
He/she/it,was right about one thing……………………………….
Church Of Scotland and the Orange Order should hang their collective heads in shame.
I have a trackside photo from parkhead, with Jiinky crouching and posing for the photo. He is wearing white Hummel football boots.
” I am The Mighty Shockwave , Guardian of Cybertron, Second in Command of The Decepticons My motto is ————-
“Clarity of Thought Before Rashness of Action ”
Transformers CSC -Way down south
I think the Church of Scotland is a force for good.
25 September 2012 Last updated at 12:27 Lib Dem conference:
Tax avoidance crackdown ‘on track’
The government is “on track” to raise £4bn this year via schemes to crack down on tax dodgers, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander has said.
The Lib Dems have pledged to raise £9bn by tackling tax avoidance by 2015.
Mr Alexander promised to get more from the “small minority of wealthy people who don’t play by the rules”.
The number of staff dealing with tax-evasion in Liechtenstein will be doubled as part of a crackdown on those “hiding” assets in offshore havens.
At the 2010 conference, Mr Alexander announced £900m in extra resources for Revenue & Customs to identify and pursue tax dodgers, both in the UK and those with offshore interests.
‘Good progress’
In an update on the issue, Mr Alexander said the UK was making “good progress” which “we should all be proud of”.
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We are coming to get you and you will pay your fair share”
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Danny Alexander
“Fair taxes in tough times means everyone playing by the same rule book, and everyone paying their fair share,” he said.
“We have this message to the small minority of wealthy people who don’t play by the rules.
“We are coming to get you and you will pay your fair share.”
How many times will we hear: “A minor clerical error” or “breach of procedure” or “secretarial oversight” bla-bla-bla…wheeled out more and more…over and over…before the months out…until you feel like you have a hangover on the waltzers?
IDS : Downfall parody:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRDHTKwGvYo&feature=youtube_gdata_player
A lot of rashist stuff on the ole bhlog today, standards are slippin’.
From Keevins Hotline in the Record online
John Halliday, Dumfries , said: “I want to know why Rangers got more column inches for beating Montrose than my team, Queen of the South, got for our win at Brechin City?”
Keevins replys
The crowd at Glebe Park was 538. The crowd at Ibrox was 45,081.
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Keevins lets the cat out of the bag there about why the msm talk up the Ibrox attendances it really is mostly about sales.
They need these attendances to justify their over the top coverage of a 3rd division team and at the same time know full well these attendances directly relate to sales of their papers.
If those crowds go down then so will the sale of their rangers protection racket rags.
I guess you could call their situation of having to pander to the undead a symbiotic zombie relationship
C 1
!!Bada Bing!!
16:04 on
25 September, 2012
lionroars67-Might be worth a watch mate,to see the Mullet fold again before his masters.I wonder how many he will “rest ” before Saturday ?
Top of the league and unbeaten so far
Reason for a manager to sound upbeat and positive for a cup tie……………surely!! watch the contrast in the comments before the SPL match with Celtic
C1st- I agree [being 50% C of S myself].
lionroars67
Just had a quick look at the story and noticed this snippet hiding in the middle of the article:
The Ibrox side have had the 16th highest attendances in Europe this season – with an average of 46,738 – entertaining more fans than Scottish champions Celtic.
What on earth has this got to do with the game that was being previewed. It’s about as relevant as saying:
The Ibrox side has cut the grass at Ibrox 4 times this season, that’s more often than Celtic.
BBC propaganda out in force again, despite the fact that Celtic’s average attendance is actually 48,830, but why let a fact get in the way of a nonsensical story.
Mort
THindimebhoy- necrophilia?
‘The only matter left is what course of action the SPL, SFL and SFA should follow’
hilarious P67, always with the wise cracks
lionroars67-The foul count tomorrow and Saturday will be worth checking.I think a bhoy posted The 5th Collum is MIB on Saturday,so we can be sure our bhoys will be protected fairly……………..mmmmmmmm
…..do zombies pay what they owe? or are they devoid of all conscience? No and Yes.
Proof that the huns are indeed, zombies.
I rest my case,m’lud. Let my peepil go!
lionroars67
every time i see your name i think of this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajfe4ODwnpI
DBBIA
I rather think less rashist, but certainly more of the ol rashite.
The richest club in Scotland! Debt free! Massive crowds! Nuremberg returns! Stellar signings!
Invasion of Europe planned for 2014!
Face-painting lassy paid………emmm…….no.
Arrogant filth.
Team for the night:
Zaluska
Matthews Blackman
Big Efe or Rogne Kelvin
Dylan Big Efe or The V Man Ledley Forrest or Paddy
Hooper Watt
Even with the injuries there is still a lot of options for Lenny: with Kayal, Twardzik, Irvine, Commons, Ibrahim, Mulgrew and Izzy all possibles for the bench or to start…should be a good workout for whoever plays and maybe an opportunity to see what some of the fringe lads can do.
tomtheleedstim
Cheers Tom
Didn’t think there would be much of a problem and you confirm that.
Pat.
Wonky-Blackman on loan to ICT.I think Watt and Lassad will start up front.
We will remain the enemy within, until we save our land from the Roman, they call us sectarian, they call us heretics, then I am both, for I, my children and my childrens children will defy the Church Of Rome as long as we draw the breath of free men.
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naw they willnae, your granchildren will be celtic supporters.
Wonkyradar the post from FF is interesting and there was a Minister at Holytown Parish Chuch called Salmond, but not John the minster at the time mentioned was the REV. DR JAMES S. SALMOND. If he is wee Eck’s brother and did say: “Mr John Salmond once said we did not do enough during the Reformation years, we didn’t purge deep enough, nor did we extirpate widely enough,” as the FF poster states it would be revealing if not entirely surprising.
!!Bada Bing!!
Motherwell have committed 88 fouls this season in 7 SPL games so an average of 12.6 fouls per game.
Last season it was 408 fouls in 38 games so an average of 10.7 fouls per game.
Games v Celtic last season – 59 fouls in 4 games (14.75 per game)
Games v Rangers – 44 fouls in 4 games (11 per game)
The number of fouls in a game is not indicitive of how “hard” a team plays against another but it is one measure of the commitment to go into tackles.
Mort
charles kickham
16:20 on
25 September, 2012
Thanks mate enjoyed that
I think big Yogi started the non-black footwear trend in the sixties. I seem to remember him on a frosty pitch v Aberdeen wearing white sannies.
The scandalous thing about it was that black sannies were de rigeur for boys at the time.
TBB -the ole rashite, as in the ole Songs Debate?
miki67
16:18 on
25 September, 2012
…..do zombies pay what they owe? or are they devoid of all conscience?
Zombies have no feelings whatsoever……..except hatred, spite and malice.
wonkyradar
Funny thing is, the guy who wrote that will be an unemployed no user who will not know where his nearest Church is. lol!
“The Ibrox side have had the 16th highest attendances in Europe this season – with an average of 46,738 – entertaining more fans than Scottish champions Celtic.
They could have 100,000 in side Ibrox for every game and the rest of Scottish football would not benefit by one penny.
I like the misuse of the word”entertaining”.