I hear the SFA had asked for clarification on Craig Whyte’s alleged disqualification as a director, without getting confirmation one way or another, since the issue was initially brought to their attention by the landmark BBC documentary, Rangers: The Inside Story. Rangers disclosure to the Plus Exchange (where the club’s shares are traded) on Wednesday that this specific BBC allegation was correct, was the information the SFA needed before they were in a position to act and apply a Fit and Proper Person (FPP) test to Whyte.
Dramatic though it sounds, failing a FPP test, in itself, is only likely to cause superficial damage to a club or its owner. An owner would need to resign as a director but he could allow the other directors to continue running the business, or he could appoint a proxy to take control of the business, which is often the way controllers run football clubs anyway.
What is of more interest, however, are matters likely to be disclosed as part of the SFA investigation. The Association would require Mr Whyte to explain what he did to be barred from holding a directorship for seven years, something the BBC lawyers would be able to question Whyte on in the witness box, should he actually sue, instead of repeatedly threatening to do so.
Of most interest to the SFA will be Rangers financial submission for their Uefa licence, which enabled the club to be nominated as Scotland’s participants in this season’s Champions League. A condition of participation in Uefa competitions is that no debts to tax authorities due on 31 December the preceding year remains unpaid on 31 March.
In September HM Revenue and Customs gained permission from the court to freeze £2.3m of Rangers money in connection with an unpaid tax bill. The principle element of this bill has not been disputed by Rangers. The SFA will now be keen to establish if any part of this bill was in connection to taxes due in prior to 31 December 2010. If it was, Celtic were entitled to be Scotland’s Champions League representatives, when overcoming the likes of Malmo stood between them and a £15m pay-day.
This is a legal minefield for the SFA chief exec, Stewart Regan, who has my sympathy. Things are about to become interesting.
While we are on the subject of that £2.3m tax bill, HM Revenue and Customs are due to get their hands on the cash after Friday next week, the last day Rangers are able to dispute the debt. If Rangers enter administration prior to that date, the cash would revert to the administrator and the club’s secured creditors would be entitled to it.
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G64
maybe hitting St Marys Larkhall do not sure if I will make PV
Torontony
STBF: A true story:- I arrived up at the Malin Hotel one Sunday night deciding to stay there than travel from Gweedore next morning early. I was sitting at an empty bar and unaware that behind closed doors was a Celtic Supporters function with 200 fans there and special guests were Bertie Auld, Tommy Gemmell and Stuart Kerr. I knew Bertie and he invited me in to function, and I enjoyed the most wonderful night sitting between Bertie and Tommy. I must say I was a bit embarrased with some of the songs, that I had not heard before but not the lads. That is what I am talking about.
The only disappointment was I persuaded them to stay for a photocall with Minister next morning when they were rushing to catch the plane. I introduced the Lisbon Lions to the Minister and asked him, did he know them, like Peter (well named) he denied them. This was a guy who was drilling in the Dublin mountains.
Interested in your last post, any Irish people, I know were oblivious to bigotry until they experienced it in Scotland. My first experience in Irleland was the respect the islandanders had for the people in Bungeg who were so kind to them and even 50 years later the respect remains.
KTH
SoS
Emdae remember, what your age?
Come on guys. Face facts. It keeps cropping up because of the Proddy dog factor. End of.
If Liam Brady had won 3 titles 3 cups and 2 significant forays into Europe there’d be collections.
Let me re-iterate …. I ADORE WGS!!
WDH
It is hard to explain to people who have never tasted that concoction you just pictured, why it should have tasted so good.
Truly memorable!
Evening all,
Mags, you’re oot early?…
wots the fight tnight… wee Gordon? we cannot be serious…. shoorly shum mishtake
he allegeladly drafrted a bankers into people spinning round poles
aye the last sixteen twice….rubbish football….scratch scratch
Bt
If I went to Larky,not sure if tit was St Mary’s ,I would be hitting.
If you make it fine,we’re regulars now.
Gordon and Georgios Celtic legends.
Just thought I’d add my opinion to the Gordon Strachan debate.
Gordon Strachan, the man, has grown on me. His touching, heartfelt display of grief and compassion when Tommy Burns passed made me regret the sometimes shameful invective I used to subject him to in drunken rants and on the old BBC forums. He seems, at heart, to be a good person, and has cemented his position as a Celtic man – his recent appearances on TV only serve to confirm this.
Let’s not pretend, however, that he’s a good manager. He’s clearly not. He leaves every team he manages far worse off than when he starts out. We got demonstrably poorer every year during his tenure, and the various seven-point-leads-surrendered scenarios he oversaw constituted some of the worst pound-for-pound displays of mismanagement I’ve ever witnessed.
Margaret McGill,
LOL.
Effin Limerick? what about the Muff divers?
http://www.muffdivingclub.ie
UC
BT
I can understand why you would want to avoid
an afternoon with VP and myself.
But Larkhall ?
Ulster-Celt
You made that up.
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Zbyszek..
There will be 2 or 3 of us Down Under Tims over For the Finals..
Will Defo Look you Up..
Just read the Draw.. Will need to go Back and have a Detailed Look at Venues Etc.. Hope Your Guid..
001Bhoy
G64
the big man told us to be fishers of men….
I like to take the fishers out od men…
Hiro
What about beating ManU at Celtic Park. The 3 best things that I have been present for in my life in order or so I tell mrs Doyle, The birth of our son, Nakamura Goal (you know the one) and getting married. Mrs D thinks the 3rd choice is dubious due to the fact that she knows i’m lying…!
JD
sftb
EPL…even at the bottom end has massive opportunity for risk taking just not open to us…so there has to be scope for him to write the odd cheque..
I don’t promote unbridled spending but I do oppose any spending policy that helps see us throw SPL titles at the Huns unnecessarily…
Sunderland will finish 8th or the like next season under MON which is realistically their ceiling.
I think he would want Man Utd but might be better suited to England – as I agree his key attribute is his ability to motivate players and enthuse fans
Mags,
love yoooooooooooooo…. but
thats a loada bollocks (imo)
think yer at the wind-up… why would that attitude be taken against WGS and not Jock Stein
for the record, I think the wee man’s great
Ulster-Celt
More embarrassing towns
Margaret McGill
I can only speak for myself.
I do not care what religion any Celtic employee or fan is.
I do not care if they are agnostic or atheist,i do not care about there age colour or race.
All i care about is that they can improve us.
You seriously misjudge me and are calling me a bigot if you believe otherwise.
Are you calling me a bigot?
TT
Ulster-Celt, Been in those parts many times yet I have never come across Muff before
SoS
I have Mr Z phone number and you are one that I sure as heck wouldn’t give it to.. o))
voguepunter
I am proud owner of a key ring from a well known petrol station chain in the republic that I bought in the town of Muff.
the petrol station is known as TOP and the keyring has the legend top….
well you can guess the rest
UC
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Hey Jude..
Half Century Monday..
Summa
Thers only one WGS thers only one WGS!!! Pity it didnt catch on!!
Mullet and Co
Donegal keeps her Muff well hidden
everyone checking Donegal maps?
SFTB
restaurant vouchers? would hate to live there
UC
JimmyQuinnsBits says:
2 December, 2011 at 22:23
WGS is perceived by some of the Celtic support as a proddy dog. OK as I asked SFTB splainit to me then. Why does the contempt for WGS keep cropping up? I dont understand it.
TLOJD- I would have put the Boruc penalty save after the Naka goal as my number 3!
That 15 mins between the Naka goal and the full time whistle must rank among the most exciting and nervewracking 15 mins of my whole life!
I was sitting behind the goal and will always remember HG trying to jump in with the fans at full time, only to be foiled by one of Strathclydes finest.
hope the guy who plays centre forward for Muff isnt john macdonald..
In view of the suggestion that, to stop the £2.3 million being handed over to Hector next week, Rangers are appealing the previously accepted bill, I have scribbled a couple of thousand words on what he might be doing, how he is doing it, and why, and I come to the conclusion that this shows (a) that he is a smart cookie and (b) his plan for Rangers ends with a large cheque from the insolvency practitioner put in to wind up the Ibrox team. Good news for fans of Motherwell Born Billionaires, less so for fans of RFC?
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2011/12/02/are-rangers-appealing-the-wee-tax-bill-a-triumph-for-mr-whyte-and-a-death-knell-for-rangers/
Mullet and Co, have you signed those huns accounts yet?
I’m not trying to get rid of Lenny…but
If he leaves, I think we could do worse than Fatima Whitbread as Manager – she obviously likes winning…
The George McCluskey Extra time Goal in the 1980 Scottish Cup Final before the Huns invaded the park. The Celebration invoked a dust cloud in the Celtic end. A sight and memory to behold.
JD
A young couple in a cafe in Donegal asks ‘Can you settle an argument for us and
pronounce where we are, VERY slowly?’ The waitress leaned over and said ……..
‘Burrr gurrr king’.