The proposed SFA rule change, that clubs must conduct an investigation into prospective new owners, went through unopposed at the Association’s AGM, currently underway at Hampden. No formal rules must be observed during this investigation, not even the ‘Gandhi criminal rule’ postulated by (still) SPL chief executive, Neil Doncaster, so a club can look into the matter as deeply as they see appropriate and the former owner can claim he was “duped” after the money appears in his bank account.
This does not strengthen efforts to keep unfit people from owning Scottish clubs, if anything, it provides errant clubs with a defence. Previously it was explicitly the club’s responsibility to ensure owners were fit and proper, now the club’s responsibility is limited to carrying out an unspecified value judgement. Tune in soon to hear “We carried out an investigation consistent with best practice, why punish us?”
In this instance, value judgements are worth as much as Ibrox valuations. It’s not the rules that are wrong, the only problem is one club didn’t respect the rules and doesn’t like the medicine.
No mention yet of the dark Fifa cloud hanging over the Association. Perhaps it’s slipped their mind.
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Paul67
The New Rule might need a bit more work but that is two out of the four reforms required to govern and improve or game introduced. Two to go.
Club Licensing 2013 AGM.
Referees 2014 AGM.
http://celticunderground.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=693:sfa-reform-one-down-three-to-go&catid=45:season-2010-2011&Itemid=80
O G..,
I know, but he’s obviously ready for work if security guards are chasing him home :o)
Fortunes Favour Mibbes on 6 June, 2012 at 14:19 said:
Any meeja monkies taking photographs of the masonic finger tickling at today’s gatherin at Hampden lodge?
Can just imagine Ogilvie going to knuckle crunch with Regan…then Regan’s fake hand falls off…hahaha…those funny guys at the SFA- what they like.
Craig Whyte does driving away fast.
RANGERS owner Craig Whyte failed to appear in court today to face a speeding charge.
• Whyte offers no explanation for non-appearance as case put back until next month
The businessman, who owns a castle in the Highlands, is accused of driving his Jaguar car at 90mph on 60mph stretch of the notorious A9 Inverness to Perth road.
The case was called at the Justice of the Peace Court in Inverness today but was was postponed for a further four weeks.
The offence is alleged to have taken place at Nuide, a well-known speeding location between Dalwhinnie and Kingussie, on 29 March .
The case had called in court last month, again without Whyte appearing, but was continued until today when he had been ordained to appear personally.
But the JP Court was handed a letter from Glasgow-based lawyers Gildeas Ltd seeking a continuation without plea for a month. There was no explanation for his non-appearance.
The court granted the continuation until 4 July .
Whyte regularly travels north to Castle Grant, near Grantown on Spey, the ancestral seat of the Grant clan in the Highlands.
Whyte was handed a lifetime ban from Scottish football earlier this year, imposed by the SFA after he was charged with not being a fit and proper person to be a director of a club.
Hi
I have a 9 year old Windows XP pc that I’m either going to give to my sister or donate to a charity.
What would be the best way to erase all personal stuff from it (and also speeding it up) ?
PeteTheBeat,
take out old hard drive and put a new one in thats the only real way of making
sure your clean,lol
googybhoy,
Whyte Misses Nuide Speeding Case?
Football fans forking out for shirts of their favourite Euro 2012 team could be risking their health, Europe’s consumer watchdog has warned.
The shirts of tournament co-host Poland are so bad they should be banned, according to BEUC, the umbrella group representing the EU’s national consumer organisations.
Research into the chemicals used in official team strips in Poland, Spain, Germany, Russia, Ukraine, Italy, France, the Netherlands and Portugal, showed all nine national shirts contained “worrying” levels of chemicals.
Lead, a heavy metal, was found in the team strip of six of the countries – Spain, Germany, Ukraine, Russia, France and Italy.
In kits from Spain and Germany, lead exceeded the legal level for children’s products and Portuguese and Dutch shirts also contained nickel.
A BEUC statement said: “Host country Poland’s shirt should be banned outright from shops as it contains an organotin compound, used to prevent sweat odour, in higher doses than the legal limit. Organotin can be toxic to the nervous system.”
Another chemical, nonylphenol, which is banned from waste water because of its harmful effect on the environment, was found in Spain and Italy shirts.
BEUC director-general Monique Goyens said: “Football fans pay up to €90 for the shirt of their favourite team. The least they should expect is to have a quality and safe product.
“It is inexplicable that heavy metals are used in mass consumer products. It is clearly foul play by manufacturers to use substances harmful to both people and the environment.
“Our members’ test results are a sad reminder that Europe’s chemicals legislation is unfit for the purpose of banning dangerous substances from consumer products.”
BEUC is now calling for a forthcoming review of current EU chemicals legislation to be used to tighten controls against potentially harmful and toxic “chemical cocktails” in retail goods.
Ms Goyens said a plan to deal with “endocrine-disrupting chemicals” would be an opportunity for the EU to be on the offensive against harmful chemicals.”
The Hun’s won’t have any problem with their jerseys next year cause there won’t be any Huns haha
PeteTheBeat
1 Mallet and half a gallon of Petrol
Paul67 – you been watching the woman’s tennis again?
Paul B: “Women’s tennis may be boring, but at least there are more than three contenders for the Grand Slams.”
Hehehe
Shortbread Presenter’s conundrum, No. 101
– To book or not to book-up for the RFC(ia) ‘tour’ of Lower Saxony…
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 6 June, 2012 at 14:48 said:
googybhoy,
Whyte Misses Nuide Speeding Case?
…………..
You are wasted in here.
So his missus is also an asset stripper.
Sir Paul
Aboot ye Leader…O’.. Leader..
In Ma Opinion.
It is nane of the S.F.A./S.P.L. s’ damn business, Who in Wonderland…
the Selling club . well.. sells tae..
If the Buyer is a Badyin.. then… the Selling Club is ENTIRELY tae Blame.
Everybudy, hiz hoit aboot the auld aphorism …”Caveat Emptor”… but.. it looks like the Scottish Fitba Authorities.hiz.
Never hoid o’ it’s wee Brither..
CAVEAT VENDITOR!
Right?
Maks Sense Tae Me!!!
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
Damn
who will do the fit and proper test on green
Is the new ruling not the same as the old ruling ?
HH
A poster on RTC claiming Man City have not been contacted about Green’s CVA proposals – he’s due to meet the Huns supporters at 3pm as well.
The next few days may have stories about ‘three new bidders ready to step in and save the day’ and ‘the Blue Knights preparing to, erm … save the day.’
Early rumour of the huns losing btc with a bill of 93m.
Disgrace of a club.
If anyone is a member of LinkedIn you may wish to change your password:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-18338956
Vaultbhoy
Guys,
Just back from a nice weekend break at her majesty’s pleasure ( so to speak).
From last weeks posts can anyone confirm if there were any more relevantions from Barcabhoy? Last I was aware was a post last week that Souness had received multiple payments via EBT, any more news?
Also, the MSM report that Green was scheduled to meet PL at some stage last week, did this come about?
Thanks in advance.
Hail! Hail!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/euro2012/article-2155256/Euro-2012-BBCs-Alan-Hansen-mocked-tournament-picks.html
How much do you guys pay towards this guys wage ?
HH
The Three Noo Bidders?
Aquaman, Superman.. and.. Mighty Moose!
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
Steinreignedsupreme
Duff&Duffer return to work today to find a large number of envelopes they forgot to post under some red,white & blue bunting… :0)
Apart from changing the hard drive and smashing it with a mallet, has anybody any ideas about my pc question, above?
Awe_Naw…,
its a sloping shoulders move, just so clubs cant do the hun thing, blaming the sfa for lack of due diligence by themselves.
The Spike television network is airing a competition this fall to award a fortified bunker to a family that believes the end of the world is near.
Seriously.
The network said Tuesday that its six-episode series called “Last Family on Earth” will feature survivalists competing to show how tough and resourceful they are. The winner gets an underground bunker in an undisclosed location.
Sharon Levy, executive vice president of original programming at Spike, said the series doesn’t necessarily coincide with the theory that the ancient Mayan civilization predicted the end of the world will arrive in December 2012.
She went on to add “We have had a surprisingly high number of enquiries from glasgow rangers fans.”
Is the HUN Lovin Criminal still President of the SFA?
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 6 June, 2012 at 15:01 said:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/euro2012/article-2155256/Euro-2012-BBCs-Alan-Hansen-mocked-tournament-picks.html
How much do you guys pay towards this guys wage ?
Whatever it is, it’s too much. However, I know he is massively overpaid, so it’s far, far too much.
Just more fudgeing of the issue the new rules for checking out potential buyers of a football club.Rangers should have been slung out of Scottish football months ago when there cheating became clear but that could never happen in this bigoted wee country.What we are seeing is tip toeing around the issues in order to facilitate a newco starting in the SPL ( it cant happen the rules wont allow it I hear some say? ) well the rules have not been followed under there administration up untill now so why would they bother with rules now ? H.H.
ASonOfDan on 6 June, 2012 at 15:01:
“Duff&Duffer return to work today to find a large number of envelopes they forgot to post under some red,white & blue bunting… :0)”
Duff & Phelps don’t miss any tricks, so I’m pretty sure they would have been working the last two days – it’s double-time for Bank Holidays…
PeteTheBeat ,
providing there has been nothing really sensitive on it just reformatt it.
PeteTheBeat on 6 June, 2012 at 15:02 said:
Best way is if you have the XP install disc and also the motherboard drivers, just pop in the XP disk, choose to format entire hard drive when asked and it will nuke everything on the drive and leave a fresh copy of XP in its place.
TBH it is a bit of a nighmare to remove any personal data manually, fresh install with format is the best option.
Obviously remember to backup anything you do want to keep before re-installing.
Vaultbhoy
Petethebeat – have a look at http://www.diskwipe.org, this may be what you are after.
PeteTheBeat – It is true that the only absoultely safe way is destroying a hard drive physically but an alternative is to google for “security overwrite software”. This software overwrites the hard disc many times attempting to make any recovery exceedingly difficult. There are certaily paid versions of this type of software and you may be able to find free versions also. It would be up to you to adjudicate on risks of this approach especially with regards to efficacy of free products.
Thanks!
wonkyradar @ 14:42
:) Aye, wot a load of shunannigans they must get up to, silly billies.
PeteTheBeat
Leave it on the steps of ibrox with a note that it holds EBT information…
ASonOfDan – Brilliant.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..Truth and Justice will always prevail
The rule will not be retrospective – guaranteed. Sorry, the waffle will not be retrospective. Sorry, nothing will be retrospective. Sorry, nothing will change. Sorry, nothing will change for the better. Whew, nearly took me 6 months to get there. Now, what to do that won’t do anything that can actually do something and will waste more time and cause unforeseen delays or ……..Eh, thanks for coming brothers, meeting concluded. See you all when everything’s red white and blue again – sorry, I meant back to normal.
H H