“If the players choose not to transfer they will then be in breach of contract” said Charles Green yesterday. How desperate is this man? Rangers players, every single one of them, work for Rangers Football Club PLC, a company which come Friday will no longer employ them. They have a contract with Rangers Football Club PLC but the company is unable honour those contracts. Some players may choose to accept a job offer from Sevco, but Sevco has absolutely no right to intimidate or make legal claims on them. It can certainly not make threats based on breach of a contract another company is actually breaching.
The important question for you to consider is not whether Green is correct in his claim (he is not), it is why is he making such a statement? Why mislead people and attempt to intimidate Rangers employees in this way?
Charlie doesn’t even have the keys yet and it looks like he is already miles off plan. We like Charlie. Lots.
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First post guys, but think certain bodies need to be bombarded to make our feelings clear, so have just posted the following to the SFA and SPL, and hope you all will too! (feel free to modify as you please!)
For what I am about to say, I think it is only fair that I admit to not being a fan of Rangers Football Club, however I have been a massive fan of football since I was three years old, and as the rule that no player is bigger than the club goes, then I think it duly proprtionate that no club is bigger than the game…
Rangers FC (1872) is the most despicable represantation of it’s kind on Planet Football. From its flagrant long-term exclusion of non-Protestant players, (and in particular Catholic), through to its more recent abuse and neglection of almost every rule under footballing and civil duties, then I beg anyone to argue that we are dealing with the most abhorrent entity ever to ‘grace’ the name of sport?
Whilst football has undoubtedly become a ‘business’ over the last twenty years or so, then even businesses have to be guided by principles, of which RFC appear to have had none. Above and way beyond this, at the heart of fans at every football club throughout the world, football remains a sport, and a sport VERY close to not only their individual hearts, but to the hearts of their communities. Sport without integrity is nothing, and the purpose is therefore defeated…
Other sports with integrity have punished their cheats, (sometimes appearing harshly so), but rules are there to be enforced by governing bodies, not to be broken by the bad boy in the class at will…Athletes have been rightly stripped of medals for having been found to have taken a banned performance enhancing substance, golfers have been excluded from tournaments for posting incorrect scores, (even when they have posted scores higher than they actually scored!?), and F1 drivers have been demoted to the back of the grid for what appears to be the slightest infringement of the rules.
With the above points in mind, I beseech you not to destroy the ideals which I have held so close since a child…if Rangers are allowed to effectively cheat their peers, the game itself, and society in general, and emerge with little more than a new name and a slap on the wrists, then my faith in football, sporting integrity, and of life in general will be gone.
As far as I see it, your role in Scottish football is to govern ALL clubs, and to ensure that each and every one abides by the rules without fear or favour. Following the recent exclusions of Spartans FC from the Scottish Cup for such an apparently minor misdemeanour as missing a signature from a form, then surely such a similar fate cannot possibly justify the atrocities which Rangers FC have imposed upon our national game?!
Whilst I am fully aware of the financial implications which the loss of Rangers FC to the Scottish game may have, I am fully of the belief that any relentance to punish this club on behalf the of the Scottish Football Authorities would send the wrong signals out to not only any other member clubs looking for a way out of their financial difficulties, but to the entire world which is looking closely at our little corner of the planet to see how we deal with the mess into which we have been dragged by one club’s self-importance and greed.
I await the outcome of this ongoing saga with a vested interest as a fan of football in Scotland, and feel I should make it clear that if sporting integrity is not the uppermost thought in EVERY decision taken regarding our national game, then my love of football in Scotland will die, and Scottish football will surely follow.
I therefore beseech you, as the guardians of our game, to ensure that integrity is uppermost in any decisions to be made, not only to convince the fans of our member clubs that our game remains above all a sport, but to convince the wider global audience that we are indeed the best small country in the world, where decisions will be taken without fear or favour, and hell mend those who choose to flagrantly flout the rules…