I didn’t comment on reports earlier this week that the SFA would allow Rangers International to complete an internal investigation into alleged links between Craig Whyte and Charles Green as I thought this was the appropriate course of action.
The SFA acted correctly: they wrote to Rangers International expressing concern over the matters in hand, and received assurances that their questions would be answered by an independent panel. Last year the football authorities were slow to enforce compliance with predecessor club, Rangers, but we can hope they apply a little more pressure this time.
News, released last night, suggesting after it was established Craig Whyte had been struck off as a director and would therefore face disciplinary proceedings, he had dinner with SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, and president, Campbell Ogilvie, is far more concerning.
Mr Regan assured us that Mr Ogilvie, who he admitted was “heavily conflicted” by matters concerning Rangers, would remove himself from matters concerning the club he was previously a director of. This is meaningless if both parties met to discuss disciplinary matters with Mr Whyte before formal proceedings were underway.
What is increasingly clear is the co-dependency between so many characters in this play, including Regan and Ogilvie. They exist to keep each other in a job. This co-dependency will be jeopardised by the one man so many are attempting to paint as the only villain of the piece. Craig Whyte has them all taped and will not go down quietly.
It will be a frustration to many that the bottom half of the Scottish Football League clubs have held out for a bigger share of the trickle-down pie. Odds on a schism opening up between community and full time clubs have to be high.
Many thanks to everyone who has ordered (below) Willie Wallace’ autobiography, Heart of a Lions. It goes to print this week and will be with us soon thereafter.
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St. John Doyle
I am pretty sure he never used that particular phrase in relation to RFC. He did use it, but not in that context, and he did use other descriptive phrases with respect to their demise, but not that one.
SJD
KSC for me im afraid..
When I first broke my leg I attended a cup final standing in the Celtic end when Provan then McGarvie scored. . Now slightly older if not wiser….
The Major League Soccer expansion club named former US national team star Claudio Reyna as its director of football operations on Wednesday, one day after it was unveiled as the league’s 20th club, set to debut in 2015. The club will be co-owned by English Premier League power Manchester City and the New York Yankees.
Reyna, 39, has strong ties to both MLS and Manchester City, and is one of the most decorated figures in American soccer history. He spent four seasons playing for Manchester City from 2003-07 before returning to MLS, where he joined the New York Red Bulls as the franchise’s first Designated Player. He appeared in 29 matches for the club before injuries forced him to retire midway through the 2008 season.
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Another reason not too like.
A weather update for G44 area is HAIL HAIL
blantyretim
18:03 on 22 May, 2013
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You better not jinx us by not going
FFS Walker (so called Celtic man) struggles to remember Centenary season on SSB!
Goalkeeper training CFC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3nmqf4-_PM&feature=em-subs_digest
forget that Scottish cup nonsense – tell us about the teddy bears – poor show etc
etc should be STV
Which TV channel is covering the Cup Final on Sunday?
BBC
TTT
Nevin BBJ and Gary Caldwell
BT
Thanks, I’ll watch it under sedation and record the Donegal v Tyrone game.
Celtic Mac-it was along the lines of the bone of our bone and blood of our blood or similar mate
Jockey Eddie Ahern banned for 10 years,probably unlucky as he was the only one caught.
BT
It’s on murdoch tv as well me oul hobbling comrade.
Jings….!!!!
They’ll Be Dancin’ In The Streets Of SFTB The Nicht…..
Like They’ve Been Dancin’ In The Streets Of Stockholm…..
For The Past Three Nichts….
Not posted for ages, just wanted to say thank you for all the Seville stories, didn’t make it myself, just had a wee boy n wife had to get a wee op. Glasgow was also crackling with atmosphere all day but obviously not Saville standard.
Reporting Scotland 30 secs on the nuns being cleared of abuse – report dripping in scepticism
Not a word about behaviour of lead police officer DC Lesley “no surrender” McAuley who coached witnesses, linked them up via exchanged phone numbers and who herself faces racist assault charges
And they want to give us an hour of this every night
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-22625363
Fat sleekit Ecks quote of “They are the blood of our blood, bone of our bone”.
Was in connection to donating bottled water to northen Ireland.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/give-scottish-water-more-powers-says-salmond-1.1077461?localLinksEnabled=false
squire danaher
DC Lesley McAuley seems a right yin :))
First post in a year or so – guess what it’s for?
Have given away my hospitality seat for sunday to someone who deserves it more than me and could do with cheering up.
I am now on the lookout for a spare for Sunday – no chance I know but a man’s got to try.
HH
squire danaher
18:48 on
22 May, 2013
Well done for posting the comparison of STV vs BBC.
I hope the policewoman involved loses her job for what was scandalous behavior regarding the case.
Who can you trust in this Country.
Eric Joyce, fool of a man!
Sanna
In these days of empty seats … have you approached the club… if we could get 100 seats would they match it.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/scottishnews/4143012/Police-Officers-No-Surrender-badge.html
no comment
excathedra44 19:02
Issue for me was whether Reporting Scorland would have the balls to broadcast on what is laughingly regarded as a “flagship” news bulletin what they included in the website report.
How did STV cover it?
Squire
They didn’t
deckchairs in the jungle-was a spare on here last night,good luck.
DC Lesley McAuley.
Reputation : Gone
Career : Gone
Football Club :Gone
HH
When’s this Mason Masons whitewash internal investigation due?
!!Bada Bing!! 19:24:
DAVID it was that was punting it, Terry O’Neill snapped it up…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
!!Bada Bing!!
You and St. John Doyle are both wrong, still do not mind me, just keep digging!
@alextomo If you were to comment on certain football matters could you be in contempt of court?
alex thomson@alextomo6h
no
Off topic but I’m at the MEN in MANCHESTER waiting on messers LEE LEIFSON AND PEART
ROCK ON
YZZCSC
where was this dinner? – succulento lambo, subway, 67kebabs, wetherspoons ? just curious
Surely this cannae’ be Scotland?!
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It also emerged that the police officer in charge of investigating the abuse claims, DC Lesley McAuley, was caught wearing a “No Surrender” sticker on her uniform at a Rangers game.
DC Lesley McAuley, who drives a blue car with a RFC number plate, is also facing assault charges, including allegations of a racist attack.
The trial heard that during the investigation she gave phone numbers of alleged victims to other alleged victims and also encouraged them to go to lawyers to seek compensation.
This behaviour was described by DC Moira Fyffe, who was briefly involved in the investigation, as “highly unprofessional”.
Defence counsel Robert Anthony, representing Agnes Reville, compared this to “putting a fox in charge of a henhouse”.