SFA referee Charlie Richmond yesterday told the BBC he was resigning from his role as a top class official citing reasons that will horrify and resonate with many of you. Speaking last night he said:
“Referee’s committee members, who you would expect to get support from, have told me across the table ‘this is nothing to do with your refereeing ability, it’s nothing to do with your experience but you won’t be getting high profile games because you’re not seen as a team member.
“The fact that you don’t share the same conversation or the same humour doesn’t mean to say you are the bad penny.
“The fact that you don’t share the same conversation or the same humour doesn’t mean to say you are the bad penny.
“In any walk of life a natural progression takes place but the person underneath doesn’t need to stab someone in in the back to advance quicker.
“I received a phone call telling me to watch what I was saying in dressing rooms because this is 10am on a Monday and it’s filtered back already.
“Much more disappointing, is that they are believing that information.”
Coming hard on the heels of last season’s bullying allegations by an official and nature of what was regarded by some as suitable material to joke about in the workplace, the SFA sounds like an old boys club.
SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, tweeted in response: “Referee appointments are based on performance. Would prefer to see consistent under performers ‘retire’ without feeling need to blame others”.
Ouch. Listen to her.
Charlie Richmond may or may not be a rubbish referee, Mr Regan could easily persuade me of the former, but that is not the point. It is not the responsibility of the employee to manage the performance review process. If the organisation manages this process well, the employee becomes an active part of proceedings, even when performance is worthy of criticism.
This situation has not been managed well. It is a corporate failure at an organisation which has been dogged by corporate governance issues for years.
The SFA have been accredited as Investors In People. The scenario where a senior referee complains to the media about favouritism while the chief executive retorts online about “consistent under performers” (sic) is surely the antithesis of good Investors In People. It smacks of lousy people management.
If you have underperforming staff, make it clear to them where they are going wrong. Do so in an inclusive way, ensure those charged with performance communication are able to do so without accusations of favouritism (Richmond) or bullying (Craven), and for goodness sake, ensure the chief exec doesn’t get bitchy on Twitter.
If you or I accused the SFA of behaviour like this we would be dismissed as irrelevant but the organisation needs to take action to ensure there are no more accusations of bullying, favouritism, selective-humour-bonding and executives disrespecting officials on Twitter.
Can you imagine what the very same people would be doing today if Neil Lennon had a go at a referee on Twitter?
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I wonder if the huns realise what a good deal this is for them? Knowing them they’re in perma rage about how the Timmy establishment are stitching them up.
Financial Fair Play? Is this a joke? Is it really 1 April not 11 April?
“Resolution 2A proposes further sporting sanctions in the event that any Club undergoes an Insolvency Transfer Event (i.e. transfers its share in the SPL to a new company where this occurs because of the insolvency of the transferor) of 10 points in each of two consecutive seasons from the Insolvency Transfer Event.”
An Insolvency Transfer Event? Now is this the invention of a special sort of share transfer that doesn’t require the permission of the company as per the existing rules? There is no mention of any process of agreement or acceptance, the transfer simply seems to happen.
This invention would basically mean that any club can keep its share in perpetuity through transfers to Newcos. Funny that.
Stefferano – I think as Awe_Naw previously indicated it will all be about the voting now. Will there be enough support from the other clubs to pass the motions and will Celtic be big enough to stand up and threaten a serious reaction to a rubber stamped parachute.
Looking at the SPL rule changes, any Newco is fecked as they have no European income and a reduction of 75% in their SPL income for 3 years.
Who the hell would want to be running a Newco at such a loss?
Disgusted with that Cheats Charter the SPL has just published, the game is bent if Newco Rangers swagger back into the SPL.
This will be the death of Scottish football as we know it. I’m certainly done propping up a league that rewards cheats.
Celtic have to start making serious efforts to move to another league, I’d rather play in the Conference than stay in this rigged set up.
I love Celtic F.C. but I will absolutely refuse to watch The SPL ever again if a lurid,dayglo whitewash is allowed for Rankers.
I feel myself getting truly irate. I don’t like it. For once in our Community’s life I demand & expect justice. That’s all…JUSTICE.
transfer your assets
stuff the tax payer
dump £134M of toxic debt
Re-enter SPL with 10point penalty??????
farce, carve-up
game over
You know we have been waiting for the right time for Celtic to play their cards…that is right about now
I would like to know how much Celtic input has been given so far for the proposals that have already been presented today ?
Hail Hail
Okay…..so I couldn’t NOT watch Celtic,wherever they play,but it will either have to be in person or via Channel67,and I don’t want to spend season in,season out,feeling bitter. We,The Celtic Community,have been treated badly enough. So,enough is ENOUGH!
Jeezo,I am mightily annoyed.
Apologies.
Time to speak out Celtic.
DO NOT sign any TV deal until these cheats are properly punished!
Ed U- I was reading the transcripts of the recent court case, and I was shocked at the picture of Ayrshire life it painted!
‘Dearie me,’ I thought’ that things should have come to this!
Hillbillies indeed!’
‘That is not the Gondwanaland I have come to know and love, a simple people, wedded to their kin and their soil [ not necessarily in that order], practising their ancient , beard based rituals as they have done since mammoths roamed the Earth.’
I have been of the opinion that our Board should hold its fire until the right moment. I was in full agreement with those who were all for letting them slit their own throats. Now that the Establishment are making up the rules to let them start afresh, we need to exert as much pressure as we can muster to do down this blatant cheating.
Scottish football is beyond a joke.
Celtic need to begin legal action against the sfa and spl right now, no more statements of intent, time for action.
In fact,I am pure RAGIN’!!!
It could of course all be completely moot if Ellis’s and other associated court cases rumble on for months over the rotting corpse of les huns, no? ie. there won’t even be a Newco to allow back in?
Am I missing somethin here?
Newco would start off minus 10 points.
No European income for 3 years.
A reduction of 75% in their SPL income for 3 years.
If they are making a loss of £2.5 Million a month just now what would they be losing for those 3 years?
Maybe Celtic have played their card…
RL
I do not think that Celtic plc will make a move publicly until either the EBT case has been decided upon or Rangers FC suffer a liquidation event.
Hail Hail
So many questions re this.
1.Who drew up these proposals?
2.When?
3.At whose behest?
4.Who gets to vote? eg if Dunfermline are officially relegated before the vote,do Ross County have a vote?
5.The 2 main “stitch up” resolutions appear to be 2 and 5 which require 11 votes.Making a HUGE assumption that Celtic will vote against,will Dunfermline eg sign their our doom by voting in favour when a “no” vote would see their relegation avoided?
Many,many more questions to come
Synchronised statements now. This is a carve up
http://www.rangers.co.uk/news/football-news/article/2731298
should be “own doom”
Didn’t Doncaster say that the rules would be applied without “fear or favour”?
What he failed to say was “but we’re going to change the rules first.”
I hate Scottish Football.
10 points.That’s it,10 freaking points.If this comes to pass and Celtic accept it then i’m lost to Scottish football.If ever proof was needed that game in this country is ran for the benefit of one club this is it.They must think our nappers button up.It’s a disgrace and a farce.Strange that i and many other Celtic supporters could give up the game here due to a situation not of our making,suffering for the sins of others.
Never been a fan of wrestling.
ASonOfDan on 11 April, 2012 at 15:43 said:
Am I missing somethin here?
Newco would start off minus 10 points.
No European income for 3 years.
A reduction of 75% in their SPL income for 3 years.
If they are making a loss of £2.5 Million a month just now what would they be losing for those 3 years?
Maybe Celtic have played their card…
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Yip, you missed the fact that they’d still be in the SPL, they would still retain their league place and their tainted history and we’d still be playing against cheats four times a season, watching our best players being injured playing against animals.
PS: They would lose a lot more income starting from scratch at the bottom of division 3.
Former Collyer Bristow partner Gary Withey, who advised businessman Craig Whyte on his takeover of Rangers Football Club, has emerged as a consultant at City boutique Segens Solicitors.
Withey quit Collyer Bristow amid controversy last month after the football club was put into administration (5 March 2012). Rangers FC administrators Duff and Phelps said Withey was crucial to the understanding of deals done following the club’s ill-fated takeover by Whyte.
Collyer Bristow said he left the firm at the beginning of March for “family and personal reasons” despite questions raised about his role as Rangers company secretary.
I’d rather Celtic resigned from the SPL and applied for the vacancy created in the third division than go along with what’s proposed.
The threat of doing so would stop this plan in its tracks.
So If I were a chairman of a team with 6 or 7 mill debt, I could perhaps say, give a wee team from the first division who were about get promoted, a wee back hander of 1 mill. What is another mill when I am going to go new co any way. The wee team agree to struggle below my team for a season with more than 10 points of a gap, they go back down, I have wiped my debt, I can even give them some more dough having a clean slate with no debt, so they can come staright back up after a season.
Cool
THIS WILL HAMMER SEASON TICKET SALES
CHAMPIONSHIP MERCHANDISING
SUMMER FRIENDLY TICKET UPTAKES
Hail Hail
And presumably with the rolling out of the red carpet to NewCoRFC, left in the gutter along with the unpaid debts to businesses large and small as well as other clubs, the police and ambulance services as well as the not so small matter of HMRC, would also be the litany of charges and rule breaches, dodgy contracts etc… but by some perversity the ‘history’ would be left intact…
With the current financial state of the game half the teams in the league might this this is a very attractive option. Celtic will win the league at a canter next season in any case, so why worry about starting on -10 points? The whole thing stinks…
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 11 April, 2012 at 15:01 said:
Thindime….,
Alex told everyone to lay off guidi last night, maybe guidi is one of the decent hacks Alex recently referred to ?
creating his own wee smoke and mirrors show to protect himself and his job ?
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Dont understand why Alex would ask anyone to lay off Guidi considering he said on Snyde if Alex Thomson walked into this studio he would not know who he is …!
Now either Guidi is ignorant in his journalistic knowledge because he never left the comfort of the succulent lamb zone or he is poo pooing the big boys down south because they are on the case
Either way in my book Guidi deserves all the criticism he gets, he sat on his hands like the rest of them until it became to obvious to conceal.
Oh and I forgot that the honest mistakes would make it impossible for us to take a point against them.
Scotland looked to the bright future, changed it’s mind and embraced it’s sordid path on the road to perdition.
This proposal is one huge stitch up. Make no mistake it is designed to benefit one club and one club only.
It is a blatant attempt to fix the rules so that when what we all know will happen eventually does, a bankrupt club can remain in the league. Even if it writes off debts to other league teams, or even to the SPL itself. Even if it cheats the taxpayer out of tens of millions of pounds.
Any football club that votes for this proposal is publicly stating that it supports a fix. That it has no morals and no sporting integrity.
The spirit of Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall lives on.
DBBIA :- I was down in D&G the other week and looked at some of your women, believe me mammoths still roam the earth. If you run any obesity classes in your surgery then the locals are taking it the wrong way and thinking it’s a good thing.
We tried to tell them some of the benefits of modern medicine but they insisted they were waiting on your return with a new breed of leeches, one of them said “If it’s good enough for my Father it’s good enough for me.
Good to see you back.
One more point: surely the administrators of Rangers FC PLC (in administration) cannot vote on resolutions to do with insolvency events?
Would that not be the greatest conflict of interest in history?
Awe_Naw – I think Celtic need to lay their marker down. Let the furore go out unchallenged on the news tonight then present the opposing argument tomorrow.
Genius innit? An entirely unique and insightful era of corporate human resources dawns. We’ll call it the “Regan Model”. Stay in your trackies at hame and you can manage you’re workforce, whilst away Tweeting policy on the couch.
I wish this ground breaking approach had been discovered in my supervisory days within a corporation. I even used to have private discussions with under-performers in an attempt to positively impact their deficiencies. How obsolete! Even now as a consultant I have no further need to meet with clients, I can just send Tweet proposed changes and the cheques will come rolling in. Thanks Stewart!
As I pointed out yesterday if Celtic even participate it this vote they will have FUC*ED UP BIG TIME
Participating in it whether they vote yes or no would only legitimise the process.
I personally think that the predictability of the inevitable presentation of these proposals to a Scottish public that is already totally scunnered by the games authorities is vomit inducing.
Carefully CRAFTED coordination.
Hail Hail
Doncaster should be made to resign for those proposals.
Not what sport needs.