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?
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i reckon craig whyte’s found a hundred million down the back of the sofa and everything’s tickety boo again…
nothing to see here timmy, move along. knighthoods all round.
aye ok, when i say it it sounds ridiculous, but i bet jim traynor could flog it to 50,000 of the gullibles like a 40 quid brick.
Bobby Murdoch
He is a snake of the highest order, not a chance.
HECTOR – Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Eating Jelly & Ice Cream. Awe Naw… on 6 March, 2012 at 14:51 said:
Everyone but the egg in a microwave guy. Apparently he is single handedly keeping the microwave industry alive with the amount of huns that thought they could do the same.
Save a lot of other jobs that genius.
And the FPLG keeps his jobs as he is the sole reason that Greggs makes a profit year after year.
Murray getting it on FF.
award for most pathetic post:
“Murray seems to have gotten off scot free so far
I don’t understand it ”
…..aw, diddums
Have Rangers paid for Cellick yet, or are the Swedish club left to join the queue of creditors?
The adminstrators going down youth route for cost savings:
They will pay them with Pokemon cards &vouchers for Toys R Us…
Gordon, msm headline
“rangers owe cellik”
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS at 15.06
Re McDowell, nah.
In radio interviews before their home game last week he was keen to praise what he describes as “without question the greatest fans in the world”.
So, no not for me. Not because he’s a hun, but because he is plainly off his trolley!!
ok, it’s not even funny now guys.
there are a lot of depressed orcs out there and they could do with some cheering up.
when’s daniel cousin making his debut then?
Sniggering at the Gregge Wylde wiki page.
last line: Gregg terminated both his contracts when Rangers went into administration in early 2012.
JohnnyClash:
That Sandaza must be deceptively fast if he can dodge bullets!
Anyone know the name of the pub/restaurant beside Dobbies Garden Centre which overlooks Murray Park? Would love to be sitting outside wi a pint and cheering every time a `freed’ mason drives by!
HH
AoW
Has the wee strip washer bigot been bumped yet?
Art of War on 6 March, 2012 at 15:13 said:
Think it might be the tickled trout, but if memory serves will be a bit pricey for thems !!!
HH
Henke @GlasgowsGreen
Close
Kyle Bartley should have went to spec savers Job Done hun feckers
Retweeted by RhebelRhebel
he looks happy to be escaping…..(cue the great escape music and tell the fat lady tae get up here, its time!!!)
Celtic Mac, ha!
Gordon_J, :-)
a rather apt name for the garden centre !!
I hear Ding Dong has put his last washing line out.
Can you imagine how much fun it would have been if Sir David had sold to someone who didn’t have the best interests of the club at heart?
Think the pub is called The Tickled Trout ? Not sure there will be much tickling going on up there today.
Vic Ajax on 6 March, 2012 at 15:15 said:
Henke @GlasgowsGreen
Dwayne Dibley – lmfao
QB
this caught my eye on the BBC website…
“Rangers have played two home matches since they entered administration – against Kilmarnock and Hearts in the Scottish Premier League. On each occasion at Ibrox, the club drew the biggest attendance in Britain that day, about 51,000 and 47,000 respectively.”
does anyone know why the crowd against hearts, by any standards a more attractive fixture than kilmarnock, was down nearly 10%. i’m assuming hearts would have had a larger travelling supports… and that there weren’t 4000 seats held aside for segregation.
not terribly relevant, but curious.
genuis LMAO fae JAS:
Jas Cameron TCN* @CelticNetwork11
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Just been told Arsenal are fighting tooth and claw to make sure Bartley stays at Rangers*
TheGreenManalishi(WithTheTwoProngedCrown) on 6 March, 2012 at 15:15 said:
Art of War on 6 March, 2012 at 15:13 said:
Think it might be the tickled trout, but if memory serves will be a bit pricey for thems !!!
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Hahaha, cheers as soon as you said it it just jumoed oot at me! ;-)
I think the Blue Lagoon’s gonna be `out of their league’ shortly!;-)))))))
HH
this is still taking way far too long unless all the players that are getting the sack are told to go and wait in a side room – where they get changed into prison clothes, chained together and sent out en masse to face the media – before being whisked away in a big lorry and dumped somewhere – now that would be worth waiting for.
From FF :
If we did lose our name and our history, we may be able to buy it back,
or we may not.
Any offers for Rangers history ……………c’mon geesa quid.
FFers are as thick as a very thick thing CSC
I must admit that I find no pleasure in anyone being made redundant – except for Ian Durrant of course!
I remember him doing an autograph for my rangers supporting mate back in the late 80s(at a student charity do) and signed it ‘Ian Durrant FTP’
PS I also remember drinking in the Nile Pub which many rangers players frequented and he was drinking away skipping about the pub chattin up ra burds on the Friday night only to have the crutches and the glum face in the Daily Record the next day.
nuff said
QuadBhoy on 6 March, 2012 at 15:17 said:
Direct quote (no really):
Aw naw, not Dwane Dibbley, ah don’t wanna be Dwayne Dibbley.
reddwarfcsc
I know I should not be doing this but see below a quote from huns media in response to the big baddies who put their wonderful institution into this position:
“Imbasiles and they should feel the full wrath of the Rangers support wherever they go.”
Really,really funny.I would think it would be better to keep away from the big words when you don’t have English as a first language :-)
jumoed = jumped
cellik was a free transfer
both players asked to leave
no others have been “face to face,one by one”
according to bartleys interview
the cull has yet to start
its going to be a long in there
suprisingly
times flying out here
Hail Hail
day*
apoligies
its the excitement
Tickled Trout???
must make a booking to be there in April…
On the day of the Benefit Trust decision…
Drinking my G&T in the TT listening to TTT decision about EBTs as they go TU
KICKINTHENAKAS
JOHNNYCLASH
Well,that didnae take too long! Outvoted two-to-one in seconds flat……
Art of War on 6 March, 2012 at 15:18
Cheers !!
The broken biscuit counter at Greggs (2nd day shop) is out of their reach !!!
HH
From hunsmedia, maybe a timposter, regarding cellik and wylde
Wish them every success in their future choice of career as football clearly isn’t their forte.
broken blog?
*** BREAKING NEWS ***
Administrators have discovered an escape tunnel under the shower room at Murray Park and have rounded up the suspected ring leaders.
GREATESCAPECSC