It is 13 days since Celtic Quick News first raised a concern that the SFA were not investigating the alleged improper registration of football players by Rangers FC for a period of over a decade. Our central concern was:
Allegations of players having two contracts had been repeated in the media but it was not known if both alleged contracts were submitted to the SFA in accordance with Player Registration Rules. As fans, we had no authority to check, but with an SFA inquiry into Rangers convened, this seemed like an excellent opportunity to demand answers.
We had two secondary concerns:
The scope of the inquiry led by Lord Nimmo Smith was not made public, nor was there any commitment to make the findings public.
SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie, as a SFA board member, was due to receive the report and could have been in a position to influence the scope of the inquiry. Ogilvie was general secretary and director of Rangers from 1978 until 2005, presenting a clear conflict of interest, which the SFA had not acknowledged.
Subsequent events have moved beyond the association:
The SFA have confirmed Nimmo Smith’s report will not investigate the alleged improper registration of players at Rangers but they have left the door open to a future inquiry into the matter.
The Scottish Premier League have not been so lax and will now investigate the alleged improper registration of players. We can perhaps imply that only one contract per player has been lodged with them.
The Sun and Daily Mail have produced a redacted (second) contract and evidence from a former Rangers director respectively.
Despite the issue being reported throughout all media channels, no one from Rangers, past or present, has denied the existence of the second contracts, or claimed player registrations were valid.
What next:
We await the SPL inquiry.
If found guilty, some punishments are clear. Playing an improperly registered player in any match invalidates the result of the game. A 3-0 win is retrospectively awarded to the opponent. Always. Just as your history books do not record Ben Johnson as Olympic 100m champion for 1988, Scottish football records would be changed.
An offense such as this would be “literally off the scale” to borrow a phrase. The SPL and SFA would need to decide on an appropriate penalty. Sport does not provide many good reference points for behaviour on this scale (Johnson was banned for three years).
The HMRC v Rangers tax tribunal and current financial plight of the club remain huge issues but, if found to be valid, the improper registration of footballers over such a long period has the potential to be the biggest story in the history of Scottish football. The SFA must initiate an immediate inquiry.
Everyone else must simply wonder, what next?
I would like to be the first to congratulate Dundee United on their 2008 League Cup win.
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This saga is becoming something that Monty Python or Mel Brooks couldn’t have imagined. In fact it’s:
Springtime for Coisty and Gerrymandering.
Fat Paul Le Guen.
Jock Stiens Celtic. They could very well get there wish.Is it still only Wylde and Celik that have left?
miki67 on 6 March, 2012 at 14:34 said:
Excuse my ignorance;my education is ongoing…..I understand FPLG refers to the fat one,but what does it stand for? Ta.
Fat Paul Le Guen
miki Fat Paul Le Guen
Thank you!
Will Steve Davis require a rest ?
Two months on the buroo should do the trick !!
HH
Is that the ‘walking away’ done for the day?
EKBhoy, they did it at the last minute, Oh well.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S, yes, totally agree.
ajaxbhoy, thanks.
Players who are freed from their contracts are free to sign for any other side as they are recognises as free agents, however if they sign after they’re not allowed to play until next season.
I think that is whybwe have playersvnow offering to GTF, before the inevitable happens and they’re snookered or they get injured, training or playing.
They’ve put their balls on the table but there is no extension now, they don’t have deep pockets – Steve Davis just can’t swerve round this one
@paddimir: unless one of these players has £70m and the password for the Bank of Scotland’s transactions archive, today is just a sideshow
Paul67 et al
Just been announced that Goian aint gonna go to Goa!
What a sad day for the very fabric of Scottish Society
Have a good kick while they are down.You might never get the chance again
We were the People
The Loyal People (who dont pay taxes to their Queen)
The Diginified People (Ahem)
The People who dont do walking away (Ahem)
kyle bartley NOT walking away.
yet ;-)
Vic Ajax:
Haha…Sally oan hunger strike…me giddy aunt!
Half size kebabs…downsizing from family size pizza to the standard…two cream buns instead of five…four blue burgers for lunch doon fae the six &washed doon wae hoff a boattle ah bucky insteed of ah ful yin!
Carlsberg don’t do Administrators day……
But if they did….
CW has just issued a statement from his underground bunker
with all the players leaving , it will make rangers stronger in the future
and as a rangers fan as i am sure all the other rangers fans will welcome this progressive move forward
the future for rangers is looking a lot better since i took over
ps
tell them to get their grubby paws away from my bank account
FPLG Toby Jugs-two furra pound
Should read if they sign after the 31st March they are not allowed to play until next season.
f5 button
wore oot
Super Sally McMoist could go down in history as the only manager to leave Rangers with fewer league titles than when he took the job.
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 6 March, 2012 at 14:40 said:
Super Sally McMoist could go down in history as the only manager to leave Rangers with fewer league titles than when he took the job.
Gordon – love that!! :-)
ffs Slow down Bhoys ma sides canny take much more of this hillartity!! Ma hernia is going mental.
Gordon
Brilliant
FPLG ‘s car is stuck in reverse
have to laugh at bartley saying “mood not great.”
excuse me kylie, but that mob have been permaraging for 140 years…
how much worse could their moods get?
ok, rangers fans clearly inhabit some parallel universe – “I genuinely think today is as sad as I’ve ever been supporting Rangers. Proud in some ways, but sad this is what my great club is reduced to. I hope we get new, positive ownership soon and can rebuild.” Proud is some ways???? Whit?
Heard the administrators are considering hiring the Chubby funster out as a blimp,K McD as a Buster Bloodvessel tribute act and Durranty to haunt houses! ;-)
Why do I currently have that bit from Waterboy in my head, you know, where the other teams try out their towel boys etc?
Gordon,
Class mo chara.I’m nicking that one!
hen1rik
Here is the Evening Times article translated for the easily led….
GERS BOOST IN EBT BATTLE Trust payments can’t be considered contractual
EXCLUSIVE By HUGH MacDONALD
Legal experts who have not been fully informed of the details of Rangers’ use of EBTs have confirmed that in some circumstances EBTs can sometimes be legally used by some companies provided they are operated in a precise manner.
Mr. Lawyer, who makes a living advising clients on using EBTs said, “My livelihood is entirely dependent on recommending EBTs to people. Without commenting specifically on Rangers I would like to say that EBTs can actually sometimes be not too bad after all and the negativity surrounding Rangers shouldn’t put you off giving me a call on 0141 TAX DODGE, that’s 0141 TAX DODGE”.
Does that help?
Another wee ditty.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-fJlykpGjY
That boy Sandaza dodged a bullet.
Silly me: they don’t do blue burgers at the Skid Bowl noo- its gruel they serve now & if your lucky enough to get an executive seat you get premier slops & a glass of co-op Cava…
“gonna have a funky good time”
Doing It To Death – james brown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDgGoQFI3FQ&feature=related
Durrant?
aberdeen are looking for a coach
Gordon J
Superb, had to share that mate.
brimmer