Alexander (Sandy) Bryson has been mentioned in reports concerning another controversial matter in SFA history. He was Head of Registrations when Celtic tried to register Jorge Cadete in 1996. That case led to SFA chief executive, Jim Farry, being dismissed for gross misconduct after he failed to register the player in time for him to face Rangers in a Scottish Cup tie.
The Burness report into what happened noted that Farry “deflected responsibility to Mr (Sandy] Bryson (head of registrations] …. (on] certain executive decisions”. In a contemporary article, Mirror Group Newspapers noted “it is unclear what part registration chief Sandy Bryson may have played in this debacle”.
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Got sent an article from Kitalba dating back to March last year. It was an interview by Dawwell King with Minty and Mike McGill – some of you here also received it.
Anyway, I sent this as a response to everyone on the list, but for those who weren’t on it, here it is:
Love how Moonbeams and Dawwell completely ignore exactly why Whyte done what he did in selling the Arsenal shares and in not paying PAYE and NIC.
The very indisputable fact remains that had he not sold those shares and had he kept up to date with the PAYE, NIC and indeed also paid off the £4.1m (or £2.8m, let’s give Wheels the benefit of the considerable doubt on this), then Rangers would have run out of money sometime round about September or October 2011. Whyte simply had no available options to enable Rangers to live without their means but tried to continue through until the next tranche of Season Tickets – a big mistake for him (or maybe not, but that would be guesswork on my part).
Put it this way: everybody blames Whyte, using the non-payment of this and that as a brickbat to beat him with; had he kept payments up to date and the club went bust as early as September, with Whyte able to demonstrate catastrophic losses in the period from May to September, i.e. ST time, who do you think would get the blame for the club going under? Not Whyte certainly.
There’s still a culture in the media and absolutely within Rangers, club and community, that Rangers simply do not have to pay their way.
Like many others, I don’t believe that there is any money to be made from Scottish football and certainly no money to be made as a return from a heavy financial investment, contracting to your own companies excepted, which makes me wonder how The Rangers fans are going to handle the realisation that no more investment will be forthcoming from Green and his lot, no more front-loading warchests etc.
Whyte’s season of ownership is about to become the new reality for The Rangers. Thirty something Croats and mid-twenties Aussies coming and going with nary a return other than a space filled on the park.
This is their reality. Casting aside the legalities or otherwise from the last ten years, there will be no more EBTs. There will not be a Dave King deal. No Joe Lewis. No NTL deal. No debt for equity. JJB deal? A debenture scheme? Forget it. There is unlikely to be Champions League money of any kind for a long, long time and certainly no money from Europe for four years.
Now, don’t get me wrong, they ARE a very big club, even now with all of their troubles and certainly bigger in some respects than all but a few clubs in the United Kingdom. If we are being completely honest, there is little disputing that. But they are a very big club with what must be a fanbase of 90% feasting solely on the rich provender put in front of them these last twenty five to thirty years or so. Like our own club, there will be some who do not need and do not care for winning results overly much; they will support their club through thick and through thin.
But that 90%. Those Dundee United and Kilmarnock fans, the Clyde fans, the Airdrie supporters, those fair-weather fans of a true mid-eighties competition where no single team had an ascendancy but who are now the ‘die-hard’ majority of Rangers fans. What of them?
Are The Rangers such a big club when they don’t win the SPL (or whatever) in their first season back? Perhaps. What about the second season? When they finish 4th, 5th, struggle to make the split? Are they still that big club?
So how, when the fans stop going, are they going to compete? Or if the fans keep on going, how are they going to compete when they demand not to simply break even or live within their means, but they demand the same success that was built on an annual deficit that, all things considered, approached around £25m a season these past 15 years.
No, where they dined on succulent lamb and fine wines previously, their repast will surely be pie and beans. A big club indeed.
If they live within their means.
-pmcc
ROTTEN TO THE CORE. So a player is registered even if he is in breach of S.F.A../S.P.L. rules ,as long as we don’t tell them. Another ludicrous S.F.A. rule -even worse than there old ‘Appeals’ system. And who, on behalf of the S.F.A., offered Green the deal of ‘trophies for membership’. I hope Celtic and others have a list of awkward questions to ask. But no matter how angry we are , it would be wrong to punish our own club.We are better than them – we play by the rules, even when they are nonsense. But we must change them.
Ghuys
Anyone who believes that our board are either overly concerned by or planning a statement questioning yesterday’s ruling are as deluded as those who believed that justice is blind in Scotland and that the H*Ns, if found guilty of cheating which in every instance they were, would receive an appropriate punishment and not just a superficial slap on the wrist.
In Scotland Justice is allowed to have a ‘wee peep’ over her blindfold just to ensure that she doesn’t mistakenly treat all as equals. Timmy Bhoy – guilty as charged. Billy Boy- oh there were a number of exonerating circumstances, some of which we just made up, as to why you broke the law / rules so I’ll let you off with a wee reprimand. Oh and I’ll see you down the Ludge for sherry or 2 later.
Independent Scotland – your havin’ a laff!!!
So Rangers embarked on a high risk strategy of EBTs, side letters and non disclosure to the SFA and did not aim to have any advantage on the playing field.
Defies logic.
…If all you had to look at was Shortie and the MSM, you’d be forgiven for thinking thems weren’t found guilty or fined…..
IMHO
LNS will be promoted to the highest job in his trade in the next 12 months,
Just as Lord Hodge has just been.
LNS is a mason judging his fellow mason’s. imo
If Celtic PLC release a statement – what lines will
it be along…..?
Why has – AT – for instance never entertained an
article on his blog about – the masonic cabal ?
If Celtic PLC release a statement, which I don’t think
they will and, I think they would be better staying oot
of this but, if they did release a statement…I would hope
that it would be along the lines of recouping the CL money
from the administrative error era. For starters.
Sumdy pointed out earlier that, a trap of sorts might be in
place v’s the Saint’s the morra ? Keep yer guard up and
be switched on at ALL times.
Saints 0-2 Celts
Off oot
Given the findings of LNS – I take it the footballing authorities in Scotland will be voiding the tainted title years now?
…
Just managed to get WiFi in Kuala Lumpur airport and I am shocked and angered by the LNS decision. Just more evidence that I’ve made the right decision in getting away from that place.
Trying not to get too angry as I don’t want to upset the kids.
S
Going back to yesterday, “there was no unfair advantage gained”, I think that’s about right!
Watty was hopeless at signing players! A strike rate of about 2%, the rest were shoite!
HH
Fortunes Favour Mibbes @03:51 are you saying the price of youthful brashness was that a guy called Sandy kicked your back door in?
new article posted.
The mind of an Orc – SSB last nite….
“if Hearts go into administration, then R#nkers should be given their place in the SPL as we have done nothing wrong…”
Deludedcsc
UTTERLY PREDICTABLE
WristGripper
There is one thing I hope the Celtic Board take from this: no matter the financial considerations, they MUST NOT ever again enter into any arrangement whatever with thon deid team.
Partizan @06:39 “The Ballad of John McLean.”
It was written to mark his release from Peterhead prison.
His speech from the dock is a masterpiece.
One of the few on the British left who in his day supported both Scottish and Irish independence. In so doing, and seeking to establish links wiht the Irish Republicans, he refused to recognise the Bolsheviks as infallible in all things political, and so fell foul of both the British state and them.
I believe many clubs in the EPL used EBT’s. I wonder how the English FA would have felt with say Man Utd if the had been found to have deliberately concealed side contracts and payments to players? Given that West Ham were fined 35m for the illegal registration of Tevez. Deducted points and relegated.
Would all the arsenals, Liverpool’s, Chelsea’s, been happy to see their main rival get away with such an unfair advantage? Would they take the attitude that no sporting advantage had been gained?
I think not.
Anyone who thinks they are hiding their IP address is delusional.
William TELL…..
A big net being cast out.
What is wrong with my last comment?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1a3KZnduW2k
The Darkside want us to QUIT.
Aye ok.
Giants come at the time you never really know, Genesis 6.
Real and genuine Human Giants are all around us in this Celtic community.