In a universe close to you, one side of a football club boardroom battle thought it would be a good idea to undermine the other side by accusing them of leaking company information. The allegations of a leak [at Newco Rangers, in case you were unaware]were blazoned across The Sun today, who were shown “a copy of explosive minutes from the board showdown at Murray Park where Gers power-brokers voted to sideline (chairman, Malcolm Murray)”.
This is cringe worthy. At what level of humanity does leaking [highly confidential]boardroom documents about an earlier alleged leak appear to be acceptable behaviour?
The Sun report the minutes from last week’s board meeting record:
“The SFA mentioned to the acting chief executive (Craig Mather) that the Rangers board situation needed addressing as the SFA understood information was leaking from the chairman.
“Given the concerns about confidentiality [no laughing now], credibility and professional conduct and the impact on regulators, a motion was proposed to remove Malcolm from the position of chairman and as director of the company following the completion of the investigation.
“It was decided that Malcolm should not attend to any duties in the meantime and would not be involved in the direction or detail of the investigation.
“The resolution was passed by a majority of shareholders.”
The campaign to blacken Malcolm Murray’s name has been underway for some months but you can ignore that, there are three points from the above worthy of note:
“Malcolm… would not be involved in the direction or detail of the investigation”. Despite having the minutes, The Sun fail to clarify which investigation is being referred to, the on-going investigation by Pinsent Masons and Deloittes, or an investigation into Malcolm Murray’s behaviour.
As it was proposed to sack Murray as a director on completion of the investigation it’s unlikely the investigation is into his own behaviour. Sentencing is usually reserved until after guilt is established.
The possibility that the minutes indicate Malcolm Murray will not be allowed to be involved in the direction or detail of the Pinsent Masons investigation renders the exercise pointless. The investigation into links between Green and Whyte, with consequences for SFA membership, was at the insistence of Murray. If the persons who removed him are now controlling the scope of his investigation, that investigation is moot.
The other interesting point is that the “resolution was passed by a majority of shareholders”. I’m pretty sure this was a directors’ board meeting not a shareholders meeting. It’s a curious comment to make its way onto the minutes.
By far the most concerning comment to be made on an SFA associate member’s boardroom minutes was:
“The SFA mentioned to the acting chief executive (Craig Mather) that the Rangers board situation needed addressing as the SFA understood information was leaking from the chairman”.
It is no business of the SFA whatsoever if a club chairman talks about its business outside the boardroom, the allegation here is of completely inappropriate behaviour by the Association, which makes it our business.
Who at the SFA is involved in this, what did they know, when did they know it, who told them and who did they speak?
Time for some leadership from the SFA board and some proper journalism, or would everyone rather play their part in the Great Football Swindle?
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Bhoys lets enjoy the next few months, they are goosed, we know it and so do they. Latest from their ST sales
Match ticket and season ticket information for season 2013/14 will be updated in due course.
Says it all, good night timland.
Auldheid
Hawd oan…
Intergalactic trumpets n ballons with nuclear spliffs!
Whit?
You been to Tini’s hoose for yer tea?
Modren anti virus software such as AVG or Avast without any conflicts is rubbish.
DBBIA
Nah. It’s some luvvy called Damian Lewis who, apparently, is exceedingly famous.
Wee Durranty would have been better.
googybhoy, remember the Andreas Hinkle signing? Reported on CQN on the Friday, not announced officially until 8 days later. I was slaughtered by many on here in between times but other events overtook. These things happen.
Papa John, indeed.
31003, there’s no big words in it……
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000
22:20 on 13 May, 2013
CALLING ALL FORMER PUPILS OF ST AUGUSTINE’S IN MILTON
SPECIAL MESSAGE TO ALL RED BLOODED MALES OF A CERTAIN AGE
As an ex Augustinian, (71-76) I don’t actually know Miss Ord but she sounds like a very caring lady. It was male PE teachers who took the boys classes so we did not know the lady PE teachers much.
Our school had a cadre of very good teachers, especially if you were fortunate to be in the more academic streams. If you wanted to learn, you could.
Nearly all my best friends to this day came from St Augustine’s – some from day one in Primary one from 1964. I was listening to one of them sign Mozart’s Requiem on Saturday.
p.s – I enjoy your posts. They are most thought provoking.
Neil
Microsoft Security? Your opinion please.
TOSB……….No, Lino Ritchie !
CQN without any conflicts is rubbish ;)))
Dont shoot the messenger Bhoys. Or shld that be messengers?
‘Homeland’ is pretty good TV, but it would have been even better if wee Durranty had been cast as Sgt Nicholas Brody.
31003
Ouch!!!!
Iain Anderson playin malt music tonight!!
Thomthethim
I can only suggest that you try again sorry.
Hrvatski Jim
Moira may have moved on when you were there– I don’t know.
My mother taught P.E. there for a while and my dad helped open the school science labs before he moved on to pastures and adventures new.
Thankyou for your kind words– I am no more than a bozo with a keyboard like evreyone else
DBBIA
I think they must all have the same voice coach. They all sound like Shrek when they try to do a Scottish accent. The best at a Scottish accent on Radio 4 is Stanley Baxter. FACT.
Jethro Tull – Thick as a brick – live – 1978
Och Aye.
Jude..,
They are all the same, the biggest security risk is the clown at the keyboard :o)
Opening spam and stuff you don’t recognise or downloading what you think is genuine without running a virus check is the cause of many a frustrating hour, believe me :o)
But if you ever get into trouble I highly recommend this site, malwaretips.com, and they give links to some excellent debugging tools and software.
And I’m including James Naughtie in that.
Although, that Hebridean guy Michael Buchanan crops up, reporting from the US, I think. Does he carry a subtitler around with him? Or is he going to end up sounding like one of the Greenockian magicians made good in Las Vegas from Chewin the Fat?
Paul67
Words all perfectly sized……..wrong order maybe?
Ericmorcambe csc
Liz Barclay is quite good at a Scottish accent, even though she’s from the same place as Gavin Esler. He’s not bad at it either.
C1st- Eddie Mair is pretty good.
They’ll do well to hold onto him; TV will have the tractor beam out.
Anyways, the lustrous Mrs Jessica Brody in ‘Homeland’ was also evil alien lizard queen in ‘V’.
The bhlog is infested with extra-terrestrials the night.
CF,
With a name like Ira he brings it on himself, is that no how the logic works
Zimmerman
Locomotive Breath my fav song by JT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCcwNoVSt2E
And there’s the girl who reads the news ? Susan Rae? No relation to Alex, I trust.
Tet.
Chill mate, any news that is a slant on thems will do for me.
I just love going into a hun work with a smirk.
Hope the dogs and cats are well.
Caesar is ruling the roost hereabouts now.HH
dbbia, you mean there’s more than one ?
31003, order is overrated.
Ole Cadizzy will be miffed he’s missin’ all this Jethro stuff, he loves them more than bacon rolls.
DBBIA
Eddie Mair is good, but he’s already been on TV, when he was a laddie, and chucked it.
No idea what you’re on about in the rest of your post, but that’s fine. I am to popular culture what wee Durranty is to reading stuff out on the radio.
Ta Neil.
Susan Rae is great. Dundonian?
If she is related to Alex, hers is clearly one head he never got to kick.
Canalamar- horses? sharks? aliens?Scottish people on radio 4?
TET,
All excellent songs,..saw them at the apollo 2 or 3 times in the early 70’s…great band.
I wasn’t slow with that response…..(Incase anyone was wondering) it takes exactly 11 mins to walk home from Zyka, and 2 seconds to come up with a witty response.
Take that Paul67… You blackguard you….
Eat Mair Tatties. Saw that on a veg lorry wanced!!
TET,
Flute solo coming in at 4.09 on TAAB…hairs on the back of the neck time.
Canamalar and Zimmerman
Thanks Ghuys. Much appreciated.
Carpet Crawler
Excellent :-))
Susan Shanks (Magpie)…..ooh baby