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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Wallykazam is having a sash bash.
Little uns are having none of my nick jnr boycott however.
Calvin Miller good ball into the box, goalie holds it..
Sieves with their usual ariel bombardment of the Celtic box, good to see they try something different with the young young orcs..
Huns playing the high ball………………………….pure crap
Corner Celtic…
Mon the Bhoys..
Late challenges from the hun.
Whits new?
burgas/starry
I stand to be corrected of course, but what was SDMs beef about the £20m loan from DK, and he was, allegedly trying to retrieve, just before they went tits up? I don’t really give a hoot, just asking. They will, of course, eat themselves. That’s what zombies do. :-))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Just logged on. Reading back, that’s a great article by James Forrest. CO must be brought to justice and Res12 might just do that. I can’t move on until that happens.
Doesn’t stop me supporting the Hoops and looking forward to our future under Ronny.
HH
not the best angle, but it looked like a handball in the box by the young zombie defender there. not called.
Idiot on synde claiming to be a Celtic fan ( my arse). Bumming up DK because of all he has done for Rangers. What has he done.
WeefratheTim
I doubt we’ll ever know.)) They will eat themselves:))) brilliant!
Young Bhoys holding their own and the better team against the young Zombies..
Signing off now, as the brains on here are now far too much for me to converse with, as an ole retired lorry driver. Our breed were brainless to the core. Lol.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
“Impeach Grimmond McCrummoch!”
‘The gas cooker is on the Liza Minnelli’
CockneyRhymin CSC
bbc2
I must have spoken to the most obnoxious, cheeky, awkward woman that works in the DVLA today.
She fecked me up big style….hopefully sorted now.
For by that, the phone is a laugh a minute. The saviour is pumping millions in….no fool like a hun fool.:)
Hard to tell at this level, but so far Celtic look the better side.
starry
:-))))
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.
Good run and cracking shot over the top for the ‘tic.
Clavin Miller just over with a left foot drive, reminding me of a young KD for some reason:))
Henry one on one with the goalie, straight into the GK big hauns:)))
Great chance missed. Should have scored there.
Today on http://www.cqnmagazine.com
Features on John Fallon, Tommy Callaghan, Nadir Ciftci (linked again), Jason Denayer and just up – Billy McNeill and Davie Hay on the ‘Honest Mistakes’ …
Its all Celtic so far but nothing to show for it.
Just past the post from CM, cracking player that Bhoy…
Barca 4 up on SS5
Just past the post from Regan Henry as the Young Team turn the screw…
Just spent 45 minutes trying to sort out pay-per-view with Celtic TV so I can watch the U-17s, then belatedly noticed the ‘only in UK & Ireland’ caveat. So not Oslo, then.
Bugger.
Hugely impressed by Ronny Deila’s philosophy in the vid. Might have a glass o’ wine and watch it again.
If only to back up my initial suspicion that he speaks Norwegian with a broad Cork accent.
O’Deila?
Greeninbingley
I’m in Switzerland watching it GB..
greeninbingley
I am in Canada and am watching game on CelticTV now. Dont know if I misunderstood your post, but the game is available overseas.
young bhoys have dominated, and created a few decent chances without converting any. Hope they dont come to regret their profligacy.
Starry
Will try again
Game on CTV for all subscribers home and abroad
dallas dallas where the heck is dallas
18:41 on 28 April, 2015
Just read Video Celts twitter feed with updates from our developement team game at Rugby Park last night.
‘ Good honest pro’ (copyright SMSM) , Jamie Hammil, booked for a random kick at Aidan Nesbitt.
That dumplin even kicks our eighteen year old players. I wish we had someone like Bertie or Davie Hay to sort out clowns like him, Lasley and Frazer Wright. ,.
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30’something kicks a teenager
Welcome to the senior game son .
I can share a few insights offline cousin …
Any updates on the Glasgow Cup Final please?
Mon!
glendalystonsils
13:34 on
28 April, 2015
Think I must be losing the plot. Was watching the Ronny lecture and went to turn up the volume because I couldn’t hear it properly!
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Don’t worry aboot it mhate ,I’ve done the same and there’s no one saner than me :O)
Turning up games on BBC Alba that’s yir next move.hh
Mon the Hoops
Still 0-0 …. break in the play for a zombie to get treatment after he made a last gasp block …only one team in it….
Cheers Mike!
The young boys are playing well. Miller and Hendry the standouts for us. Plenty of the ball but only one clear cut chance when Hendry headed well.
Very, very unfortunate timing- swivel eyed loon #1 Nigel Farrage on his UKIP election broadcast urged the voters to cause ‘ a huge earthquake in British politics’.
I’m sure it was recorded before the awful events in Nepal but ….