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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Passed Murray Park 5 minutes ago. Choc-a-bloc with media. Bald, fat guy being interviewed. Was going to toot my horn but that would be construed as a sign of support – can’t have that.
Have any more gone yet.
blog back??
We’re back!
There’s a sad sort of clanging from the clock in the hall
And the bells in the steeple too
And up in the nursery an absurd little bird
Is popping out to say “cuckoo”
[Marta, Gretl, Brigitta:]
Cuckoo, cuckoo
[Children: Marta, Gretl, Brigitta: ]
Regretfully they tell us Cuckoo, cuckoo
But firmly they compel us Cuckoo, cuckoo
To say goodbye . . .
[Marta, Gretl, Brigitta:]
Cuckoo!
[Children:]
. . . to you
[Children:]
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, good night
[Marta:]
I hate to go and leave this pretty sight
[Children:]
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, adieu
[Friedrich:]
Adieu, adieu, to yieu and yieu and yieu
[Children:]
So long, farewell, au revoir, auf wiedersehen
[Liesl:]
I’d like to stay and taste my first champagne
[Children:]
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
[Kurt:]
I leave and heave a sigh and say goodbye — Goodbye!
[Brigitta:]
I’m glad to go, I cannot tell a lie
[Louisa:]
I flit, I float, I fleetly flee, I fly
[Gretl:]
The sun has gone to bed and so must I
[Children:]
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye
Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye
[Guests:]
Goodbye!
ASonOfDan on 6 March, 2012 at 15:43 said:
*** BREAKING NEWS ***
Administrators have discovered an escape tunnel under the shower room at Murray Park and have rounded up the suspected ring leaders.
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What a shock…there’s a shower room! :-)))))))
I think I just p1shed myself!
JohnInAthens: “Many have played for the badge, but Gregg Wylde has walked for the badge and those employed by it. Best of luck to him.”
Craig Whyte turns out to be homeless man two millionaires made a bet on passing off as a gentleman. (thumbsup)
Twitter
EdwardDebi:
At Murray Park. Papac just left without saying a word #rangers press team just arrived so hoping for statement soon [via Twitter]
Damn, I was hoping the broken blog was a sign of some big news
gordon j
me tae
Sasa Papac the latest Rangers player to leave Murray Park
PHILVIS
Not your most original thought,that one.
I’m sure someone even made a movie about such a scenario,built around some kind of orange futures…….
Spooky,really.
Paul67..
I would like to be the first to congratulate Dundee United on their 2008 League Cup win.
That would be the match that in the closing stages ugly betty pulled back a DU player straight through on goal.Stonewall pen and straight red card, that EVERYBODY could see, yet kenny clark waved play on.
As mentioned earlier even with the DU chairman watching, at the time teminally ill, still the cheating went on.
Levein mentioned that game a few weeks later after mccurrygate at the bigoted dome.Something along the lines of ‘maybe because i kept quiet after the final they (referees) thought i was weak’
So yes congratulations to DU are long overdue.
Have they sacked the bigoted dwarf yet!!
From BBC
“After Saturday’s defeat by Hearts, Rangers manager Ally McCoist explained that he would not be in the room when the administrators gave players the news. He said he would be waiting outside to offer support to his players.”
So you walk out the office, clutching your P45…and Ally gives you a chorus of the Billy Boys?
Don’t think it would do much for me…
Does this mean that Wylde and Cellick miss out on runners up medals in the Liquidation Cup Final against Portsmouth ?
Latest from STV: STV understands talks are ongoing over previous plan for tiered wage cuts at Rangers, limiting possible redundancies, and …
Papac just left without saying a word rangers press team just arrived so hoping for statement soon
Was Papac smiling as he left the building.
Ignore that question, he never smiles.
I wonder if the delays now relate to how much the Administrators are having to agree to pay to buy the sacked player’s silence
Art of War on 6 March, 2012 at 15:13 said:
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
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I can confirm that it is indeed ‘The Tickled Trout’. So apt that DOBBIES is so near to Murray Park.
54, 53, 52, 51 etc…he he he
Can anyone confirm if Sone Aluko can be made redundant if he’s self-employed?
Are Duff & Phelps incapable of making a decision?
Coneybhoy on 6 March, 2012 at 15:19 said:
I must admit that I find no pleasure in anyone being made redundant – except for Ian Durrant of course!
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I’ll hear nothing against that man, he’s my hero. 100% fail rate as manager of Ragers, against the mighty Dunfermline in a cup game.
Have the salvatian army turned up yet with the soup?
Apparently Gregg Wylde couldn’t sleep at night. That’s funny, neither could I – too excited!
Tim Malone Will Tell on 6 March, 2012 at 15:49 said:
From BBC
So you walk out the office, clutching your P45…and Ally gives you a chorus of the Billy Boys?
Don’t think it would do much for me…
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I believe Richard Gough is on route to put an arm around the younger players! :-0
Bartleys obviously sitting pretty with arsenal
he does,nt give a damn what happens
“im just going home to relax and come back in the morning”
obvious also that hes not a mason
no sense of brotherhood their
think its been a misunderstanding – D&P overheard Ally saying he needed to cut out the Gregg’s.
They also heard McCoist stipulate that Celik can f*** off anaw.
kylebartley22: “Never was a quitter.. Never will be a quitter. #fullstop”
No, you are an overpaid, London gangsta, wannabe who just so happens to be a shoite footballer as well…
“the club has been experiencing a period of uncertainty for some time, the administration process will remove this uncertainty”
Paul Clark, Duff and Phelps,16th Feb 2012
Regarding yorkston voting for newhunco.
I posted after the Hibs game under my old nomme de plume
Neil Lennon says NO to BESNA!! on 19 February, 2012 at 17:46 said:
Glasgow Celtic Champions…….So good to hear our song again.
Good also to see that after what felt like 3 or 4 seasons of absolutely nothing from corners, in recent weeks a few goals scored from them.
Also now that 1st place has been decided lets look at the bottom of the league.
I feel that if a newco comes about it would be better for hibs to finish bottom, as they would demand that newco start in div 3 to keep themselves in the spl.
Yorkstons dunfermline i feel would take the hit of relegation to help bigot newco into the spl.
LET THE PEOPLE SING!!
re ‘the Tickled Trout’ do the have that Schadenfreude on draught in there?
Does anyone actually believe that bartley has a future with Arsenal as a footballer?
Eh?
What a riot this will be…
BBC One Scotland is broadcasting a debate this evening on the state of Scottish football and how it can improve. It’s on at 2235 GMT.
their= there
excitement again
tá brón orm arís
OriginalSadiesBhoys:
Purchase one of those musical horns so the next time you can beep something more approriate…theme tune to Happy Days…No One Loves You When You’re down and Out…Soldier Song…
Blackpool made a profit of £32M from their one year in the EPL.
And they now get “parachute payments” of £16m for each of the first two seasons after relegation, then £8m for two after that.
DifferentWorld CSC
Has Papac left as in left or popped home for dinner?