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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Habemus Philvis!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TaFvitDHMag (thumbsup)
JimmyQuinnsBits says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:21
ok thats a possible explanation..meaning that contrasting to MON being such a historic chapter in Celtic’s history that WGS paled into comparison. Hmmm as I said at the beginning…
3 titles, 3 cups and 2 last 16 in Champions league.
Better record than O’Neill in the Champions league.
Makes Celtic supporters sound like ungrateful huns if you ask me.
Margaret McGill says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:20
ernie lynch says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:15
‘Dont buy it.
1. Its all about winning. Style comes after basics. (Re Jock Stein)’
Not for Celtic fans.
‘2. Turn it up please…its football we’re talking about.’
That’s meaningless.
‘3. Didnt Lenny just have a go at some fans..’
No. He asked some fans to change their behaviour. He didn’t have a go at them. He didn’t ridicule them. He didn’t insult them. He didn’t demean them. He has praised the Green Brigade and regularly shows his appreciation of them.
‘I was there.’
Then I can only assume that you’re an idiot to have come to your conclusion.
ElDiegoBhoy says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:21
That was the first I seen Roxy live,ABSABLOODYLUTELY fantastic music brill and that ole guy Ferry still
looked no bad.
EDB
don’t believe you not wanting a fight..
is it really you?
Im sure if WGS had won us 10 in a row some clowns wd still hate him.
Ernie
With respect that’s just pants.
TET,
yup… didn’t originally, but now believe that this was all planned, with Minty and the bank in the background, and CW promised a handsome reward to take the flack
he’ll need it
ernie lynch says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:26
Now! now! behave!
Mags
I wonder if the WGS haters could be caught on film dancin and singing at Tannadice and Kilmarnock?
Ernie says
“Some fans DIDN`T TAKE TO HIM for one or more of the following reasons.”
On the Wednesday the news broke of Tommy`s relapse,the same day Neil Lennon returned,
STRACHAN,STRACHAN,g.t.f.
STRACHAN g.t.f.
Yeah,we heard it ,even in Australia.
A few weeks later,the S.P.L.was ours.
One of Celtic`s most magnificent achievements in my lifetime.
Gordon,you`re immortal.
Margaret McGill
Ernie Lynch is spot on…
I didn’t like WGS as our Manager – the football got worse and worse..
He was full of his own conceit and disrespectful to the fans who paid his wages…
He had ‘form’ as anti – Celtic guy…but admittedly he was converted in post and I do appreciate the way he ‘bigs us up’ in his pundetry.
he did achieve 3 SPL titles but I think the rot set in under his watch…he failed to manage PL as he might – I think his ego was flattered by DD etc..
WGS knows how to avoid defeat and sets teams out with that intention – a legacy of his relegation dog fights – I always prefer Managers who set their teams out to win.
Cannae explain it, but IMO our strongest asset is also our greatest weakness…us the fans.
When we are united we are a great force,but we are too easily influenced. Bin the papers, switch off the radio.
JimmyQuinnsBits says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:27
My hunch is that as soon as the EBT case appeared on the horizon the bank panicked and decided they had to get the huns out of the MIH group in case it took the whole lot down.
They realised there was no chance of someone buying on a going concern and worked out that the only one who would be interested would be a vulture like Whyte.
I reckon the bank made the first approach and put the deal to him on terms he would accept and that Murray had no say whatsoever.
in four years Strachan GTF was sang once – it lasted all but 5 seconds and was drowned out by over and over within seconds
One Gordon Strachan was heard many times in those four years
maybe selective hearing in Australia
UC
I was dismayed again by a number of our own lot phoning snyde to keep a non story going. in the process they allowed keevins and co an easy ride as usual. The biggest story in scottish football since the judas affair (even bigger) is reaching boiling point, and it doesnt get a mention.
FFS Celtic people, if you must call this show nevermind tune in, be aware that it is as pro hun as thee daily ranger. And remember, if it was us, theyd be doing a 2 hour ‘celts in crisis special’. Not to mention the DR ten page special, with cracked crests and hearses parked in kerrydale st.
Bassas.
Hh
Night night all,work in morn,homer,got to do a wee bit.
Gordon’s tribute to Tommy was what
Celtic Football Club is all about.
El Diego Bhoy
Yip they are not everyone’s cup of tea but by god they were something else in those early years.
saw Leo Sayer in the clown outfit as a support, and after that the young Lennox in the Tourists. Other supports were the Sadistic Mika band, Martha and the Muffins, a band called Sharks ( featuring Chris Spedding of motorbiking fame ), Mari Wilson and the Jess Roden band!!!
Jesus I can be a boring git when I put my mind to it!!!
By the way, in some inetrviews with Gordon Strachan which were given long before he became manager, it was so obvious that he was a Celtic fan that it was embarrassing. He gave Alan Lawrenson a completely withering look ( you know where he scrunches up his face and nose ) when Lorros suggested that Henrik Larsson would not be given a warm reception when he returned to Celtic Park with Barcelona.
If I recall correctly Strachan actually said something like ” Eh??—- You know nothing about that club and its fans if you believe that– nothing– the guys a hero and always will be!”
MON
first Celtic manager to win treble since Jock Stein..
first Celtic manager to get us into european final since Jock Stein.
WGS
first Celtic manager to win 3iar since Jock Stein
first Celtic manager to get us into last 16 of champ league…
imho
both are Celtic legends….
This song sums up the request from dodgy dave to the laptop loyal when he left the huns in the outdoor brickhouse…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_9RaWjCBu8
and BTW
neither of them grew up being Celtic fans just like Jock Stein…
BT
you’ll get a sore erse…sitting on that fence – never let the facts get in the way of a good argument – lol!
Help I caught it abroad – STV… amazing stuff
CultsBhoy hates being 2nd says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:31
Nope. No he’s not and neither are you. The rot began the year before that. Black Sunday and all. MON scarpered because the money had dried up. Same reason he left Villa. WGS did what he could with a weakened squad until the financial contraction (which still continues) became too much for him too. In my opinion considering he had fewer resources his accomplishments were magnificent as a Celtic Manager. I cannot tolerate any celtic supporter detracting from him in any way just in the same way I cannot tolerate the Celtic bored detracting from the GB in any way. What kind of Celtic supporter criticizes WGS? I still dont get it!
cults
if it comes down to it Ill go with WGS…
unless I am right of course
Cults
Maggie said it all…
Ceasar67
They could and they did.
An East coast-sounding (definitely not Irish) Celtic fan seated behind me called WGS a “f*^%ing c@*%” just two minutes before the news came through from Pittodrie and not long before we scored at Tannadice in May 2008.
He felt no compunction or shame in celebrating the outcome. It was pure visceral hatred of a manager on the brink of 3iar but no religious or national epithets were used in his criticism.
It remains a puzzle to me as much as it is to Maggie but I never heard anyone seriously insult him for his religion or nationality. I did hear his hair colour traduced but, unless we are going to go all Freudian on the motives, we will lack for evidence that he was hated as a Prod or Jock.
JQB
I think it was always planed as well, but I think CW was not what minty had planed, I think selling to him was desperation, but the same outcome in the end no matter.
Minty still controls what the MSM do and say in the main, he will be protected, I just hope some young ambitious juro fancies taking him on, he has destroyed football in scotland, and for that I would see him stickless for the rest of his days.
……………………
My only contribution re Gordon Strachan.
WGS is and was a legend.
CultsBhoy hates being 2nd – I loved Gordon Strachan, and still do. One of the greatest Celtic managers of my lifetime.
And if you say differently, I will fight you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ba8XDbh2FA (thumbsup)
Ulster-Celt says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:33
in four years Strachan GTF was sang once – it lasted all but 5 seconds and was drowned out by over and over within seconds
One Gordon Strachan was heard many times in those four years
maybe selective hearing in Australia
Only once? Well,that`s O.K.then.
Not selective,definitive.
BT
ridiculous!!
I’m a ‘feel good’ believer and I always felt good with MON at the helm…kept PL in his box…so for me it is MON every day
I like WGS.I liked the way he treated the media up here with disdain.I also liked the titles,cups and CL last 16s.I disliked the last 2 seasons of his in a footballing sense,found it static and dull.He’s away now so i tend to sometimes recall the good times he gave us and focus more on the here and now.
3 points Sunday please.Move on.
Anywho,it’s Friday,time to boogie;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnijX0TH-w
ONELOVEONEHEARTONESOULcsc
If you cant see my point of view your an idiot……
lol
Great to see the fine tradition of a good, open, honest and inteligent debate, that attracted me to the site in the first place, being carried on!!
Margaret McGill says:
2 December, 2011 at 23:39
No criticism allowed?
I was right. You are an idiot.
Support should be unconditional, not uncritical.
Snyde…
BT
Agree 100%
You do not have to be a Catholic to be a
totally committed Celtic player or supporter.