Scottish Football League, rule 23. Members’ Financial Records, “All Members and Associate Members shall keep detailed financial records of their activities and the board may arrange an inspection of all such records”.
In the absence of audited accounts for a new club, the board of the SFL are in a unique position to examine the financial records of The Rangers to ensure its leadership is not running amok with the Scottish game, in the same way previous incumbents of Ibrox did.
Or, a few months after Craig Whyte crashed a football club after telling everyone he had enough money to complete the season, will the football authorities look the other way? Again?
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Why change the habits of a presidency, Campbell???
I know which one my money’s on.
The SFA will do nothing until it blows up in their face. Again.
Paul 67
What pressure can other SFL teams put on their management to insist that the newco is properly supervised so as not to make honest mistakes be duped or have some other calamity befall.From your post I suspect the SFA/SFL have no intention of trying to govern this mob.
Paul
You ask two questions in the last paragraph. Possibly rhetorical. But if not then the answers are – Yes. And yes.
U
” You may choose to look the other way but you can never again say that you didn’t know ”
William Wilberforce
Paul67
Its huns,they dont need things like accounts or audits,play it by ear and take their word,insolvency? ach your being picky,Scotland needs them and their crucial contribution to the economy,a license to play? Hey,its Ibrox your talkin’ about hear,everybody should just mind their own business and stop the attacks and persecution.
Big Efe scored opener in a 6-1 win for Nigeria
Aye can here you from over hear.
Interesting analogy from Phil’s site?……
“Great article Phil and I have just about finished reading ‘Downfall’ – what an eye opener! My pal is waiting on me finishing it so I can give him next read. It will do the rounds for sure.
IMHO there is a culture of sectarianism and bigotry in Scotland that permeates all through Scottish society that is sometimes difficult to pin point but which manifests itself throughout the corridors of power and down throughout society. It is the same culture of shame that allegedly allowed Jimmy Saville to operate for decades within the BBC without anyone taking him to task. Its the shame that dare not speak its name in Scotland and it too has been operating for decades and decades enshrined in a culture of fear and intimidation against anyone daring to speak out against it…’bigotry’. The whole machinery of the state on terms of the newspapers, the television, radio, magazines, the media in general as well as employers and statesmen who have an agenda against multiculturalism in general but more specifically an in bred hatred of all things Irish, all things Catholic and all things Celtic. But time is not on their side and it is my firm belief now that as the decades pass tolerance and a culture of multi ethnicity will engulf the bigots to the extent that they will find it increasingly difficult to get people to agree with them and their foolish narrow minded views. They must be challenged at every level even if that means simply not agreeing with them. . .try it – it works.
Together we can stop the bigots!”
If the Huns are forced into administration ….is that a 20 point deduction .?
PF
Aye, for all the other clubs
U
Is it a coincidence that we are getting all these stupid zombie films etc on tv at the moment, or is it just ironic ….?…… LOL
James Forrest misses Scotland training today
Clearly not fit. Hopefully the boy will see sense and pull out of the squad shortly
….pfayr
14:52 on 14 October, 2012
If the Huns are forced into administration ….is that a 20 point deduction .?
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Think THAT will be the least of their worries .?………………LLLLooooLLLLL
Just read Keevins self-indulgent keech, about his banishment from CP. Seems he has learnt from his MARTYRDOM. Well he doesn’t criticise a 50 year ex-player whose team are playing crap, and, doesn’t comment on “the mistakes piling on top ofr to t he
Throw in deaf ears to match the blind eyes!
Nigeria qualifying for the African Cup of Nations means we will be without Efe from mid Jan for up to a month
Just read Keevins self-indulgent keech, about his banishment from CP. Seems he has learnt from his MARTYRDOM. Well he doesn’t criticise a 50 year ex-player whose team are playing crap, and, doesn’t comment on “the mistakes piling on top of one another to the serious detriment of the club’s dealings on the park, and it’s reputation off it”.
(Well I presume, as I never read what he has to say any other time!)
Keep up the good work Shug, we need guys like you to keep the truth suppressed, and Sally in a job.
Fud!
Oops! Bliddy fone!
Give em enough rope! They will surely hang themselves once more, sit back, relax, an wait for it all to go pear-shaped again. Nothing is more certain, they’re on borrowed time AGAIN.
Who are they going to blame this time?
God bless wee Oscar
BroonSauce
Whatever happened to the John “Once we see the hidden letters, any deeds that have been done in the past wheres ticketus in all this we will deal with that once we see the title deeds for this stadium that i was proud to play for in a number of years though 9 in a row but we need a bit of honesty from charles green” Brown consortium?
Can’t beleive we’ve got Gordon Ramsay on the blog
On train to London mega delayed!!! Have lost restaurant booking, anyone suggest anywhere in Euston area?
Jeez, 10 mins between posts. The ole site is slow today.
Weefra HH
Paul,
You seem to be a bit harassed today, judging by the flushed look on your “box”.
They better have money or I may have to reconsider that £70,000 of shares I have registered an interest in. :0)
Reilly 1926.
Could you post where you got the link from shortbread as it keeps cutting off. Cheers.hh
Sitting on the Stena Line drinking Guinness for a wee impromptu visit to family in Belfast.
Another addition was born yesterday! Happy days!
Hail! Hail!
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Prospectus entitles you to free bus to St Mirren.
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Sorry for long post bhoys but this needs to be put on.
Thanks
SATURDAY, 13 OCTOBER 2012
It all goes wrong in Philadelphia…
People have commented a few times on my writing style in this blog, but I don’t plan for it to be so emotive. It’s just my thoughts spilling out onto the screen, about what we are experiencing. This post is gonna be a tough one, but is necessary to capture and explain these days when all our dreams turned to nightmares.
After 3 long hard months of fundraising with every ounce of determination we had in us, we made it to the magic number of £250,000. That is a crazy amount of money – it took us 102 days to raise quarter of a million pounds. Unbelievable. The support for Oscar just seemed to snowball throughout that time, and we were truely overwhelmed by the effort made by everyone for our son. Family, friends, strangers – everyone rallied round and made it possible for Oscar to have the opportunity to get the potentially life saving treatment he needed.
We decided we wanted to go to the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), by all accounts it was the best place in the world to access this treatment, so that’s what we aimed for. There are cutting edge treatments and research studies going on here into this awful disease, and as you all know our quest has ALWAYS been to get Oscar the best treatment available.
It was confirmed on Monday 1st Oct by CHOP that we needed to be in Philadelphia that very week, to meet a cut off point for Oscar getting immunotherapy here. We had 5 days to prepare to leave the country and our lives as we knew them behind, so that’s what we did. Emergency VISA appointments, discussions between hospitals across several time zones, gathering medical notes and medication, flu shots, dental appointments, career breaks. Paying bills, confirming house and car insurances, booking flights, finding accommodation, specialist travel insurance…we did it all.
On top of all that Oscar was still completing his radiotherapy every morning. Gary from McNeill Business Travel was fantastic and arranged all our flights, even securing escorts for us through from check in to boarding so we had help all the way and didn’t need to queue. We said our goodbyes and left on Saturday morning, so full of hopes and dreams and nerves about what lay ahead.
We travelled from Dublin to Philadelphia business class. Oscar was very tired and run down after his 14 days of radiotherapy only ending on the Thursday, and we wanted to make this as easy as possible for him. He was VERY tired throughout the flight, and for the couple of days after we arrived in Philly. He didn’t want to walk, and complained of a sore stomach. We thought the journey had really taken its toll on him after just finishing that last block of treatment. He was still playing and fighting with Izzie, using Skype to talk to everyone back home, just a poorer version of himself.
We went into CHOP for our first day of “pre-assessments” on Monday at 8.15am. Which was fine, as the kids were up at 4am! They were cranky and tired and disagreeable, we felt it was gonna take them some time to adjust to their new surroundings. Izzie was asking if she was going to Helen’s (her childminder), Oscar wanted to go to his nannys house and for Nina and Mima (his aunties) to visit him. It was a looonng day, but good – we talked about the treatment plan, looked around the facilities, and started apartment hunting online that evening. We were all adjusting to the idea of life in Philadelphia.
We had more appointments in CHOP on Tuesday, but they started later. We were having breakfast in our hotel, when one of the hotel workers came in to give us a message from the hospital, that the doctor wanted to see us earlier than planned. We gathered our things up and went up to room to get ready to go out. Oscar didn’t want to walk back from breakfast, I carried him to the room. There was a message on our phone that there was something they wanted to double check on Oscars heart, he needed a little bit of further investigation. Hospital life is our norm, we thought very little of it, and headed in.
Oscar had a heart echo, and things quickly unfolded from there. It’s actually a bit of a blur to me. We were told that Oscar had pulmonary hypertension, which is EXTREMELY rare, but likely to be a side effect from his chemo and stem cell treatment. The blood vessels in his lungs have become very narrow, and his heart is working extremely hard to push his blood in through them. There is a BNP blood test which measures the level of stress your heart is under, normal readings should be under 100, Oscar’s was 2800, he was very ill and he needed to go to ICU.
SHOCK. DISBELIEF. HORROR. ANGER.
This can’t really be happening. Do you know what we did to get him here, to make immunotherapy a reality, and you’re telling me that chance is gone? He needs this, we want it. Neuroblastoma can’t be allowed to win, we have fought so hard, OSCAR HAS FOUGHT SO HARD. “As far as neuroblastoma is concerned, know that you have done everything you possibly could have for your son”. NO! Don’t tell me that, it’s so final, and unfulfilling. This isn’t over. It can’t be.
Quickly immunotherapy was the last thing on our mind. It was clear Oscar faced a whole new set of challenges and dangers right here and now. He very quickly needed help with his breathing, his lungs were collapsing and his heart was failing. Can you believe that? That is exactly how it happened. On Tuesday night he was spiraling downhill, flecks of blood were spraying out as he coughed. Then out of nowhere he threw up a huge volume of blood. A basin-full. Things were deteriorating fast, I was alone with him in ICU, Stephen back with Izzie in our hotel. I kept asking if I should get Stephen down, they kept saying “not yet”. We got Oscar settled, but his breathing was poor and his heart racing. He was moved from small volume oxygen help to large volume of forceful oxygen through CPAP mask, with the aim of forcing his airways open.
Wednesday was a very tough day. Things were getting no better, perhaps a little worse – they prepared us for the absolute worst on Wednesday evening. Oscar may need full breathing apparatus, a tube inserted, and he wasn’t likely to survive that procedure. The nurses got 10-12 syringes of medicine drawn up, adrenaline etc, incase he crashed. We were given a room in the hospital that night so we were both on site.
You’ve gotta remember we’re here alone, with Izzie, and we were trying to take care of her too. I did something I swore I’d NEVER do in my life, I let her go to play with the play specialists on her own. Complete strangers in a foreign country, but we had no choice. She was asking a lot of questions and witnessing stuff no 2 year old should experience, we needed to focus on Oscar and she needed a break. My sister booked a flight for Thursday to come and help, we really needed it.
Oscar had a decent night on Wednesday night, after all that we were prepared for. He surprised everyone the following morning, with a good improvement in how his lungs looked on x ray. However since then things have continued to be up and down. One step forward but two back each time, and we just don’t know what is going to happen. He has brief moments where he will give us a thumbs up, his courage moves me to tears every time. We tell him not to be scared, he’s getting better, everything is fine, but I only wish we could believe that too. His heart function has slightly improved, but his lungs are letting him down. The doctors think he has been just “getting on” with his pulmonary hypertension for some time, the little warrior that he is, and it was never detected. They think he picked up a respiratory infection, maybe the flight didn’t help, and it just pushed him over the edge. That is the only explanation they can offer for how we arrived here with a relatively well child, and within a few days are watching him fight for his life.
This is more than a cruel blow. From what we knew, Oscar was close to, perhaps even in remission, we were aiming to get him immunotherapy to give him the best chance of long term survival. 25% of kids with his genetic disorder, Jacobsen Syndrome, die before they are 2 years old. He beat that. Neuroblastoma raised its ugle head, he survived almost a year of the toughest treatment available, and he beat that. Now he has pulmonary hypertension (which is so rare there is no confirmed treatment plan), coupled with a respiratory issue. Oscar is tough, he’s a fighter, but there is only so much a little body can take. Selfishly, we need more time with him, we need him to keep fighting. Love you Oscar, and couldn’t be more proud of you and all you have achieved in your little life so far. Keep fighting little man Xx.
Chris McLaughlin @BartinMain
Charles Green tells me #Rangers have won the tax case.
Bundoran Bhoy
What a courageous post – God bless you all and especially Oscar – keep fighting wee man
Chris McLaughlin @BartinMain
Charles Green tells me #Rangers have won the tax case.
It is a wind up apparently
X for Oscar
DontPatmadug
16:07 on
14 October, 2012
I felt a little bit sick and dizzy when I read that. Then saw ChrisMcLaughlin’s name and relaxed.
Bundoran Bhoy – Wee Oscar 4 Life Campaign
God Bless You All, what a truly humbling post…
Starry
OK I am about to fulfill my promise from last week and post the collated questions that you all very kindly offered to me last week. It is quite a long post … 582 lines.
I am sure there are many many more relevant questions that you would like to have standing on record within CQN´s archives.
If you offer any more I will put them in the relevant section but in future I will only post one section at a time as I feel it is too big a post on its own.
I have split it into 13 sections. If anyone wants to offer any advice or wants to cut and paste and add to it or improve upon it themselves feel free to so do.
If anybody thinks that another section is required then please suggest it.
I will attempt once a week to collate the open questions and add them to the various sections.
I found it quite difficult as not all the questions are unique. So some of the same questions are posed in different sections.
As soon as I first proof read it my first thoughts were … something MASSIVE must happen ……. eventually.
Anyway I hope you enjoy it I hope it makes you think … especially those open questions that we have so far failed to put down.
There are many many questions still open. If you look at the BDO, Duff & Phelps, Media, HMRC and police sections … it is I feel very lightweight.
If you want to join in on this wee venture then thanks in advance.
To those that it annoys sorry .. I will try and keep it to a minimum … say once a week on a Sunday afternoon.
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