There’s an industry of deliberate misunderstanding in Scottish football (and on the pages of CQN). One of the last vestiges of this is the SFA’s fabled Fit and Proper Test. There is no test, never has been a test and in all likelihood, never will be a test. It was almost certainly a figment of some under-informed journalist, who provided the concept enough currency for it to endure in the imagination, despite many, many, people explaining reality.
To be a director of a football club you need to be Fit and Proper, you do not sit or pass a test.
It’s a bit like:
To do a job you need to speak English, you do not sit or pass an English language test.
If you accept the above job assuring your employer you can speak English, and you can’t, you are likely to be fired.
If you accept a job as a director of a football club, assuring the SFA you are Fit and Proper, and you aren’t, the SFA will ban you from football and discipline the club for failing to ensure a director was Fit and Proper before appointment.
This morning the incessant campaign continues to throw reputational damage on anyone who would be inclined to point out that Dave King contravenes the eligibility rules on becoming a football club director. This is different from being Fit and Proper, which is a subjective assessment, Mr King is simply ineligible.
The reasons for his ineligibility (he was a director of a football club which was liquidated within the last 5 years), and other matters, most notably, his 41 convictions for breaking the tax law in South Africa, and the blame laid at his door by the SPL’s Lord Nimmo-Smith report, make up material reason why the SFA may consider him not Fit and Proper to run a football club.
After targeting Peter Lawwell yesterday, the campaign today turns direct to the SFA, who are accused of allowing Craig Whyte to “bluff his way through the Hampden [non-existent] ‘test’ by simply filling out an official SFA form”.
As should be patently obvious to anyone with a dozen or more brain cells, the SFA form is neither a ‘test’ nor a certification of appropriateness from the SFA.
The obligation to ensure a football club appoints Fit and Proper directors lies with that club’s board. If the board fail in their duty to the game, the club is liable to sanction from the SFA.
So who was on the board which appointed Craig Whyte as a director of Rangers?
Our emerging heroes, the men who chased away the billionaire, Dave King and Paul Murray. As non-executive directors of Rangers they had a responsibility to the club’s stakeholders that their interests were being protected.
The Institute of Directors factsheet on the role of non-execs quotes the Cadbury Report, saying they “should bring an independent judgement to bear on issues of strategy, performance and resources including key appointments and standards of conduct.”
It was the Rangers board’s responsibility to instruct the necessary checks on Craig Whyte’s appropriateness to be a director of the club. They either failed to do this, or if they did, failed to act on the information, or withdraw their names from the club’s register of directors.
Sir David Murray may have controlled the majority of shares, but as recent boardroom events at newco demonstrate, there is a great deal non-execs, when in a majority on the board, can do to inhibit major shareholders if they believe the interests of other stakeholders are being jeopardised.
Non-execs are not there to wear the blazer and attend supporters’ events, they are the eyes and ears of the supporters, shareholders, employees and creditors who are not privy to the inner workings of the club. In this respect, Mr King and Mr P. Murray failed Rangers on a cataclysmic level.
They are, in every respect possible, perfect for the job of running newco. My prediction (no inside info) is the SFA will fold under sustained media pressure, set aside their ineligibility rules and allow Mr King and Mr P. Murray to work their magic one more time.
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Clogher
God willing, you will meet my son and I in Dublin 2016.
franny67
My son showed me I dont know how to work Twitter. They were brill. Me and mrs j watched them thru some tears.
He’s a fine Bhoy H H
Wow.
This ghuy’s on a different level.
HH jamesgang
James
I know you are. ;))
westies
23:14 on 28 April, 2015
I was severely abused on here a few months ago, when I suggested that Ronny might be our best manager since Jock Stein. He uses modern training (like Jock did back then), personal motivation (like Jock did with Jinky), handles the press very well, and the biased MSM don’t know how to deal with him, because he’s not a real Celt like Lenny (I loved Lenny). Ronny has studied at Ajax, Barca, Man City, Borussia Dortmund (Big Jock studied Herrera)….and he is a thoroughly professional and likeable guy, who obviously cares about the supporters (again like Jock). Give him some money and let the team and him flourish.
The video is a “must see” for every Tim. Please don’t abuse me too much !
Hail Hail
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Well said
10 months ago, a basic google search had useful information on his style/methods
Some chose to cast him as a pt instructor, after a few games.
Minds made up in advance.
lct
Brill pics ta. H H
connaire12
Should it not read…….
22:42 on 28 April, 2015
Just got round to reading the last 8 pages. BMCW – Been out playing hide n seek from Focus w’ae the Green Brigade!
;-)
HH jamesgang
margaret mcgill
23:10 on 28 April, 2015
There are few greater displays of abuse of state power and regressive thinking than the death penalty.
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I can’t disagree with that, we live in such a violent and unfair world. Life is very cheap all over and even in Scotland a few weeks ago a young woman brutally murdered having been on a night out.
I have spontaneous opinions and thoughts on many things, am I right or wrong, would I pull the trigger or the lever, my heart tells me no.
I’m very doubtful my faith would give me the strength to forgive anyone who took my children’s lives God forbid.
I hope to God no one ever has to go through that, though it happens. I change my mind constantly on things that don’t affect me, opinions are easy in that context.
Sorry if I have offended
Ayrshire is Green and White
Congratulations Jude.
2017 is the 50th anniversary of Lisbon 1967.
It wouldn’t be beyond the realms of possibility for Celtic to be crowned Champions of Europe once again.
Nothing is impossible with Ronny Deila at the helm.
The objective.
HH.
Oldtim and Oldtim groupies
Friday afternoon.
Depends on whether the wee Mhan is going. If he is I’ll be heading back to dunblane to collect him then heading to CQN Corner.
If he’s not I’ll be going to the BV to see the irish gsk who downs a guiness quicker than BMCUW!
HH jamesgang
DD/Dena,
Thanks lads,
See you both in Dublin.
Away to listen to rebel songs.
What is the Stars
23:02 on
28 April, 2015
Executing 8 drug smugglers
Savagery
Probably more drugs available in the prison in which they were executed than anywhere on the outside
The death penalty is just plain wrong…even for the lowest of the low
Its just legally approved lynching
Far better to have run them all round George Square naked.
Jude
Well done to the bhoy…Marvelous memories for a lifetime Hail Hail
Ayrshire is Green and White
Westies
On driving home disconsolate with Petec after the Legia game at Murrayfield, we listened intently to Ronny’s post match interview on Radio Scotland. Petec and I both agreed that Ronny was the real deal and we need to back him to the hilt.
Ronny Dee is The Real Deal!
Turkeybhoy
Naked in George Square
I would give the death penalty for that !!!!
James Forrest
If you are lurking hereabouts…
Great piece on Ogilvie, Resolutions 12 and otherwise.
Fields of Green right enough.
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/no-resolution/
delaneys dunky
;-)
HH jamesgang
Jude
You must be so proud of your grandson there can’t be many greater feelings in football than scoring a goal in a cup final for Celtic
delaneys dunky
Might see ye Friday…cheers
HH
James
See you Friday ya mad Rasta!
One Love!
Robert Nesta Marley CSC
marty59
Dont thinks there is fine sir. His dad and his uncle near choked me when he scored. 0)
Mick TT
Ta muchos!!
Micktt
Hope you make it in bud.
The mair the merrier it shall be, I trust. ;))
Were any of you CQN Bhoys at the game??
Jude
Hope you get Josh to read tonight’s CQN tributes to him and you. Magic! :))
jamesgang are 76 year old supporters allowed in the Green Brigade? Just because I oppose the OB act does not mean I sit in a certain section. Actually I sit three sections from the GB. Enjoy most of the singing.
Mick TT. 23.00.
Personal experience justifies your thoughts. I’ve witnessed the devastation in different circumstances. Totally understand your post.
If things go to plan, might catch you for a beer on Friday.HH
Night Timdom
Lively up yourselves!
HH jamesgang
connaire12
Well you’re a younger better mhan than me my Fhriend cos I’d need ear plugs and a wee lie down afterwards if my seat was that close to them!
HH jamesgang
Happy Birthday Deccyrollercoaster, big 13 today!
Well done son, putting up with a household of women for so long! Also need to improve your LMS predictions, as your Dad is easily beating you (this time) :-)
HH
CRC
Angelgabriel
Would love to share a few beers with you on Friday.
Hail Hail
CRC
Happy Birthday Deccy.
The purse bhoy. :))
Deccyrollercoaster
Hoopy birthday big ghuy!
HH jamesgang
micktt
23:33 on 28 April, 2015
It’s ok you haven’t offended
It’s a violent corrupt world. So much so that you shouldn’t condone such depravity from an Indonesian government motivated by genocide, thievery and Islamic drivel.
Night all Night wee Oscar my hero!! God bless x x
Please Bhoys. Remember those poor people in Nepal in ur prayers tonight!!
Err name not resolved? Just changed moniker. Forgot old password. So created new one. Hail! Hail!
It’s easy to take an objective principled stand on the death penalty.
Howevva….
Sometimes we make exceptions in our own minds
Would you spare someone who abducted, abused and murdered your children or grand children?
Would you spare someone who planted a bomb at a school convert which your family attended?
Would you spare someone who beheaded Christian children for no reason other than their faith?
Would you spare someone who was guilty of genocide?
Where do we draw a line?
Convert. CONCERT.
Predictive text is bollocks