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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VP
Did u like BRTH link to Roxy Music
at the Apollo ?
blantyretim says:
2 December, 2011 at 22:47
MrX
Maxwell plums on clyde St
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BT, I never had the pleasure of that place.
I also recall my pre-club bars being Sylvesters on Ingram Street and John Street Jam on, er, John Street and the 39 Steps on Union Street, or was it Renfield Street?
Fouquets, where you entered and then went down stairs was also a regular haunt.
Feeling wistful now!
WDH – I’m a huge fan of the maple syrup, always have a big bottle in the fridge, the stuff that comes straight from the farm so to speak, unprocessed:). And cincsentits i will never forget, hope to get back soon.
You keep well amigo and eh,
slainte
tony
macjay
Happy to accept the clarification.
I accept that it was Maggie that implicated the Irish-minded in the dislike of his Scottishness.
The Gordon Strachan Serenity Prayer
Dear GORdon
For what you got right
We thank you.
For what you got wrong
We forgive you.
Amen
TET,
I think he’s a crook… probably a clever one, but a crook nonetheless
And there’s too many of them twisting, bendin, and duckin under laws, and gettin away with it…. the huns have what they deserve
After he finishes them, I hope he burns… metaphorically course
Remember being in Maxwell Plums watching Scheme
when it was raided by the DS.
I think that was a common occurrence then.
MrX
Sylvesters was my first pint in Glasgow..before cup final in 84…
spikeysauldman was a bad influence on me and I missed most of the cup final that day…those Springburn bhoys got me drunk, not to menation those castlemilk and anderson bhoys.s
the rest is history or a drunken hase…
Mr X
Sylvesters was a rare boozer and run by the best mine host Glasgow has ever seen.
Mike Kenna could do everything– design the place, do the books, cook the food, do the music. tell a joke– and he is a lovely guy. He now lives up north near Keith– along way from home for a cockney.
Fouquets– great place– and the subject of a few very funny jousts with the Licensing Board who were concerned about how the Glasgow public would pronounce the name!!!
But that perhaps is for another day………. lol
I’m hearing a lot of crap but not an explanation of why the contempt for WGS is a recurring theme on CQN.
This is brilliant
http://i.imgur.com/vVT7r.gif
Vmhan……..ABSOLUTELY……….on WGS….LL – 1 Celtic Fhans – 0 ……..they would be out of business if some of us had not been influenced by the media agenda…..and they’re still at it….they may win one or two of the battles, but we’ll win the war, since their silence over the mismanagement of the orc’s finances for the past 15 to 20 years has contributed to their imminent / inevitable demise……hope they’ve got their coffin ready…?? LOL
Looks like the outgoing rankers board were right, eh…..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It made no sense at the time so no chance of getting an explanation now.
mrX
all our yesterdays.. I’m 45…
g64 hipsway plus love and money… in maxwells…
BRTH
Awesome.
The Apollo and its predessor the Green’s Playhouse are such a huge part of my late teens and early twenties.
in 1972…my first venture inside.
Free, Jethro Tull, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin.
There is no coming back from that :-)
First concert at The apollo was The Rolling Stones Goat’s Head Soup tour 1973
Jethro Tull…Thick As A Brick
Paul McC says:
2 December, 2011 at 22:29
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/
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Great post m8 mr whyte ain’t daft is he but let’s hope HMRC are 1 step ahead for this chancer but after reading this article maybe not.
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BT..
You have got Me thinking about that Day in the Car with Your Dad & Charlie the Tour of Fife.. Classic.. One of My best Days back Home.. Cannae beat Scottish Patter.. The Craic on the Golf Course and then in the Club at Night was Great..
Lost out on The CQN Open this Year because l never knew of the Date change..;0(
Summa
TET
How are you mi amigo ?
Without doubt one of the funniest moments
in TV history. Still gets a laugh know matter how
many times you’ve seen it.
Br\o/gan R\o/gan Trevin\o/ and H\o/gan says:
2 December, 2011 at 22:36
Brilliant ……….your talent with the pen brings the blog much joy, keep it coming.
It was great to see Big Joe and 001 bhoy in the same room at the same time.
Had my doubts:o)
Oh, and The Token Tim was allowed out.
Gordon and Martin – Celtic men.
Or as Gordon might say….
“Right Good Tims”
TET
Was!!
the huddle @10:52 –
great song!
jobo
JQB
He is a crook, no doubt about that, and clever in the fact that he has managed to stay out of jail so far.
He must have an escape plan, nobody in their right mind does what he is doing re the HMRC, the courts etc. and not be planing to leave the shores.
I doubt he cares one iota for the hun, and when he strips them bare, there are going to be some very angry bears out there, is there any other kind, and they will go looking for him, and the real man that has destroyed their club and scottish football, will get none of the flack, he will still drink fine wine and eat succulent lamb.
That is the scandle that is scottish football.
BRTandH
do you keep your posts so a eejiy like me can go back and read them?
it’s just that at this time on a friday night there is no way on gods earth that I can read understand and remember what you post…
SoS
we now knowFife like the back of our hand… o))
Is that right that Scott Brown has re-signed for us…?….that would be great news ?…but hope we haven’t given in to his agent’s demands…….these agents are a close second to Scottish journalists in the FUD league……..
Did I hear someone ask, what does FUD stand for ??….Feckin’ Unbelievably Dim….!!!!
Margaret McGill says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:04
‘I’m hearing a lot of crap but not an explanation of why the contempt for WGS is a recurring theme on CQN.’
Contempt?
Some fans didn’t take to him for one or more of the following reasons
1. the style of football his teams played. Boring, not the Celtic way (as exemplified by Jock Stein).
2. he wound us up when he was a player.
3. he was disrespectful to an element of the fan base. They might be irritating wee neds, but ‘corner boys and loafers’ have always been a part of the support right from the beginning.
His religious denomination and nationality never had anything to do with it. Anyone who thinks otherwise wasn’t there.
His religious denomination and nationality never had anything to do with it. Anyone who thinks otherwise wasn’t there.
Australia is far away
UC
BRTH – Saw BF in 77. Never did catch Roxy live. Damn!!Caught all the punk bands. Great memories. Thanks. HH.
Many fans hated WGS before his first game, young tims as well, why was that?
I can’t remember his Aberdeen days but welcomed him when he became our manager.
ernie lynch says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:15
Dont buy it.
1. Its all about winning. Style comes after basics. (Re Jock Stein)
2. Turn it up please…its football we’re talking about.
3. Didnt Lenny just have a go at some fans..
I was there.
embdy else?
G64
I am good thanks.
Getting impatent these days waiting for them to go bust, but enjoying seeing them squirm around on their knees for a change.
That’s the first time I have seen that clip btw, never knew whytie new trigger.
Raided the cellar earlier, a lovely bottle of Somontano, 2006 Crianza called Pyrene, expensive @ 4.30, but well worth it, just building up to the hun are fecked party, then the real good stuff will get poped :>)))
Mags,
agree it comes up with monotonous regularity…. but there is a real, and valid, division of opinions on his managerial ability. I think he was a good un, but others would have different views for the reasons previously given.
With many Celtic managers, the opinion if the support is fairly unanimous – e.g. Macari, Mowbray – cack… Stein, O’Neill… good.
O’Neill came in after a dark period in our history…. won titles, cup final in europe… and set the expectations high… WGS was always goin to struggle for overwhelming support after that.
First time I saw Roxy Leo Sayer was the support act.
Mibbees ’72 or ’73?
Roxy aren’t everybody’s cup of tea so was well pleased that my wife and both daughters came along to a concert in Glasgow in January this year. They had a great time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDe3fngwIXk
Time for a song.
Gordon Strachan – Celtic Legend.
Didn’t arrive as a Celtic fan but definitely left as one, and always will be!
That’s all.
Jobo
Ceaser67
Was, is, no matter, I thought it was funny, I thought it was funny when Del was falling over, it’s just as funny with whytie falling over.
Not getting into a late night argument with anyone, work tomorrow, but MON ought to have won many more trophies than his teams achieved.
So keep some perspective here guys. And I’m a huge MON fan.