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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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  3. TopCorner on

    “In addition, the bulk of the current playing squad, one of the strongest in recent times, was assembled at significant cost.”

     

     

    there goes the Walter Smith miracle-worker claim !

  4. Ceaser67 on

    the huddle

     

     

    Ah the old trackin back?? seemingly Aidens been telt in Russia not to do it. zgtihhnazz gtiyywzac Thats it in Russian. lol

  5. CaltonTongues on

    Summa of Sammi…. says:

     

    3 December, 2011 at 00:37

     

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    12hrs after the WGS gtf Chant l bet Celtic to Win the Title.. Reason: I thought that Moment would Galvanise our Team AND Support.. I think it Did..,

     

     

    Well, I can beat that by 11 hours ask hamiltontim about the rant I went on that night in Traders with the barmaids man (HUN, ALKY, HUN TATTOOO on the back (UVF).

     

     

    He stoats in with suit on etc singing championees.

     

     

    Well, I stopped him right in his tracks and, explained how we were going to win the league.

     

     

    (FIVE MINUTE RANT)

     

     

    He laughed, but, I pulled out the dull yin aka, threatened to hunt him down like a dog when we won -DBBIACSC

     

     

    The rest, as they say, is our history CSC

  8. The Singing Detective on

    The Horrible Truth is that a section of our support dislikes Gordon Strachan…….because he has RED HAIR !

     

     

    On the other hand,we tolerate Neil Lennon,despite his Ginger Crowning Glory.

     

     

    Irrational ? Mebbies aye/mebbies naw.

     

     

    At a subconscious level,angry red-haired folk may elicit an exaggerated and deep seated fight or flight response in their dowdy neighbours,for reasons going back into antiquity.

     

     

    As all you scholars will know,modern man(outwith Sub-Saharan Africans),have a genetic component derived specifically from H.Neanderthalis. This varies between 1-5 %,of our full genetic complement.The native inhabitants of the British Isles have the highest genetic contribution from Neanderthal stock,at 5%. This contribution from the Neanderthals occurred due to interbreeding with H.Sapien as the latter migrated from the Middle East into Europe,where H.Neanderthal reigned supreme .

     

     

    Contrary to old misconceptions,’Ole Neanderthal Man was at least as advanced as H.Sapien,creative and innovative,and artistic,living in small cooperative social groups.

     

    They had brains typically much larger than the Johnny-Come-Lately H.Sapiens…and ,commonly had blue eyes and RED HAIR,physical features hitherto unknown amongst the H.Sapiens !!

     

     

    The ‘Ole Neanderthals were stocky and more powerfully built than the H.Sapiens….if H.Sapien encountered an angry red-haired Neanderthal male,it could easily be curtains,as the former was torn apart limb from limb..

     

     

    So,that is how visceral fear and anxiety of the Gingers came to reside in the fragile psyche of the long-nosed Anthropoids of our Sceptered Isles……

     

     

    See a Ginger Neanderthal=You are Dead! Much like our fear of spiders,snakes,or rats…if your ancestors didn’t possess fear of the latter groups,they would have been part of extinct lineages..

     

     

    We inherit our H.Sapien view of the world by virtue of deriving the preponderance of our genetic make-up from the same source .However,when we encounter an angry ginger chap in modern life…the phenotypeal expression of expression of our old (extinct) Neanderthal forebears,primitive emotions are evoked,which some folk cannot easily rationalise….

     

     

    So how come the H.Sapiens persisted and H.Neanderthal declined ? Well,that was down to a specific difference in blood groups between the two races…the Neanderthal were Rhesus Negative..whereas most H.Sapiens were Rhesus Positive…. Giving the risk of fatal Rhesus Disease to the unborn infant,if a Neanderthal babe were to pair with a puny H.Sapien metrosexual….but that,kiddies,is a story for another day !

     

     

    As Philvis,he knows it in his bones…..

     

    (Thumbsup).

     

     

    This Warblin’ Gumshoe Production was brought to you courtesy of the RanchoFrancho Endowment Fund for Global Understanding.

     

     

    And to save ernie lynch’s trigger finger the bother-“I’m an idiot”.

  9. ernie lynch on

    Sneddoni says:

     

    3 December, 2011 at 00:47

     

     

     

    It’s because he’s a Scottish Protestant and those who criticised him are sectarian bigots.

     

     

    I think that’s what’s being suggested.

     

     

    To me that says more about those who make the accusation than those they accuse.

  13. blantyretim on

    Huddle…

     

     

    this site has rules..

     

     

    mini BT reads it in the morn… please refrain thanks…

  16. jtsTICks on

    The Huddle 00.52

     

     

    If you don’t mind me asking, but how many exactly?

     

     

    Just curious like? :O)

     

     

    jt

  23. SydneyTim on

    1st of all, who would I like to share a beer with, mon or wgs. Wgs everytime

     

    Wgs spoke for all Celtic fans( he is a Huge one ) when he spoke about the deep loss of Tommy Burns, wgs still stands up for Celtic

     

     

    As a boss yes he won three in a row, but any blogger on cqn could have been in control in those 1st years as the huns did not compete, the finished 3rd in wgs 1st year

     

    He spent more money than mon and brought us a great goalie and naka

     

    His 4th season was a season that put the Huns to the sword for many a year

     

    But his tinkering away from home cost our club dearly and we are still paying for it

     

    You have to remember how many points were dropped away from home due to wgs team selections, which baffled everyone

     

    Eg Maloney at ibrox, when he had not kicked a ball for 3 months

     

    His flood selection for swinecastle

     

    His playing 5 in midfield and wondering why we don’t score away from home

     

    Wgs record in management apart from being handed the title in his 1st 2 Years is woefull

     

     

    Nice guy. But not a clue tactically

  29. BABASONICOS71 on

    Everybody go easy,what’s done is done.

     

    It’s Lenny and the Bhoys now.100%!

     

     

    Can’t think up much more to say so here goes again:

     

     

    CSNY – Suite:Judy Blue Eyes; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2T0RpkyqUU

     

    PRIMAL SCREAM – Autobahn66

     

    BOB MARLEY – Redemption Song

     

    OUTKAST – The Whole World

     

    STONE ROSES – Tears

     

     

    They make me happy,hope they do for some of you also.

     

     

    FOREVERANDEVER!!!

  30. tarrant on

    Regarding the “Celtic-minded” allegations…like other posters, I have never heard a single supporter bemoan WGS’ religious leanings or possible pro- / anti-Celtic background.

     

     

    I do think it is more enlightening to look at the relationship the Celtic support formed with MON – I would say that MON’s Catholic Irish identity allowed some Celtic supporters to assume an identification with him (or more accurately, assume that he made an identification with “us”) that they couldn’t readily do with WGS.

     

     

    [And i woudl say, an assumption that needn;t have been made. Many supporters ignored at the time and ignore now the subtlety of MON’s quote on the day he was appointed. He never said he would crawl over broken glass to take the job. He said his father told him he should….http://www.whoateallthegoals.com/2011/01/so-what-now-for-martin-oneill.html ]

     

     

    However, all of this needs to be viewed in the context of each man’s appointment. MON had arrived to lead us from the darkness. WGS was taking over from a 5-year reign of a successful-beyond-expectation (and beyond budget) manager who was not leaving in disgraced failure.

     

     

    Look at other recent appointments – Tony Mowbray had played for us before, and was also a very enthusiastic attender of CSC functions, so there was the perception of the “Celtic Man” which could not be had of WGS. His appointment was not greeted with raptures. Nor, more pointedly, was Neil Lennon’s appointment, and could you find a more “Celtic man” than our current manager? Celtic supporters want success. The expectation of success is the main measure of reaction to a new managerial appointment, or to the signing of a new player. We’re not that different from the support of any other team in that regard.

     

     

    However, we are different from the support of most other teams in many regards, and I doubt there is any team in football in the world that wrestles with a notion of self-identity in the way that we do.

     

     

    The accusations levelled by Mags and other posters regarding the roots of the antipathy towards WGS, while unfounded in my opinion, do have resonance in the historic ongoing low-level, and occasionally loud-level argument about the identity of Celtic and of Celtic supporters.

     

     

    We are currently in a loud-level phase of this argument, because of the attempted legislation against “illicit” singing and actions taken against the Green Brigade. This is difficult for many Celtic supporters, because many Celtic supporters do not identify with the Irish Catholic history of the club. They recognise it and respect it, but their appreciation and support for Celtic perhaps does not come from family, or from a familial tradition. I’m Irish, but I live in Scotland, married a Scottish woman, am raising children who will learn about both their parents’ countries’ histories, and more besides. I don’t sing Flower of Scotland – I don’t identify. Similarly I don’t expect every Celtic fan to sing, or to want to sing, Fields of Athenry, or the Soldier’s Song (in English or in its Irish translation). I would however expect every Celtic supporter to sing and/or to idenitfy with Over and Over (“We are Celtic supporters, faithful through and through”), or to sing our version of “This Land is your Land”.

     

     

    Are you somehow “more” of a Celtic supporter if you are Irish, or of Irish descent, and/or Catholic, and/or West of Scotland, or Donegal, or Irish Republican…? I say no. I say this instead.

     

     

    We are Celtic. We welcome all. We are Brother Walfrid and Beram Kayal. We are Willie Maley, Wim Jansen, and Wee Gordon Strachan. We are James McMillan, James McGrory, and Jimmy Johnstone. We are Jock Stein, Johnny Doyle, John Thomson; Patsy Gallagher, Packy Bonner and Paddy McCourt. We are Fergus McCann and Daniel Fergus McGrain. We are the year in my CSC that we had Scotsmen, Shetlanders, Irishmen, Englishmen, Kashmiris, Arabs, a Welshman, a Norwegian and a Bulgarian. We are Kano, Ramie, p*ddy, NegAnon, Kojo, and all points in between. We are Giles Heron, Salim, John Kennaway, Jo Venglos, Morten Wieghorst, me, you.

     

     

    We are not sectarian. We are not exclusive. We are the greatest Club, and the greatest club, in the world. We areall the people.

  34. Sneddoni on

    ernie lynch says:

     

    3 December, 2011 at 00:41

     

    Sneddoni says:

     

    3 December, 2011 at 00:31

     

     

    Oh well.

     

     

    That’s me convinced.

     

     

    Those Celtic fans who criticised Gordon Strachan in any way only did so only because he’s a Protestant.

     

     

    Or Scottish.

     

     

    Or whatever it is the laptop loyal say.

     

     

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    Now your argument is ‘flatlining’……..!!

     

     

    I said any of that when exactly??

     

     

    The debate is really over, when you start putting words in others mouths.

  37. the_huddle on

    tarrant says:

     

    3 December, 2011 at 01:04

     

     

    We are not sectarian. We are not exclusive. We are the greatest Club, and the greatest club, in the world. We areall the peopl

     

     

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    Keep on believing that, some of the cr*p posted on here would suggest otherwise.

  42. Ceaser67 on

    Thats Lionel Richie finished got to dance Mrs C now for the last dance. You never know dae you??

     

     

     

    Ps just said to her. Ur wan in a million doll. she said so’s yir chances!!lol

     

     

    Night Bhoys.

     

     

    HaiL HaiL

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