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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Rangers cheating has went so far back that the battle of the boyne
has now been awarded to king james.
voguepunter on 6 March, 2012 at 12:52 said:
Its gaelic for “lets all laugh at rangers”
Has Ally “Arbroath” McCoist made his obligatory “dignity/walking away/no surrender”
dopey on-the-brink-of-tears speech yet ?
Churchillian, aye like the wee dug in the advert.
It’ll be funny if Arbroath had an EBT, the funniest thing since the last hun funny thing.
Heard his mentor, Walter Sinatra, on the radio earlier.
Sounds like TheManWithNOSurname knows that liquidation is a cert.
Which made me feel good, fair perked me up so it did.
Kettle on.
pigalle
The Big House becomes
“The Big Brother House”
Who will be voted out next?
The Onlooker
row z \o/ (O) whatever part of my club is dependent on rangers I am willing to lose! on 6 March, 2012 at 13:00 said:
Andy Goram thought he had 2 contracts…… til he sobered up!
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Goram had one contract each.
Pity this new bridge wasnt built yet….give them something new to jump off
The SPL rules are very clear. Admittance is a 2 stage process. Firstly a members council considers the proposal (or proposals) and reaches a view on whether they wish to proceed. THEN the board is empowered to work up and conclude the deal, having been given AUTHORISATION to do this.
I don’t know why there seems to be so much confusion around this. The wording is straight forward.
HH
Theres a gorrilla in the room!
dirtymac \o/ on 6 March, 2012 at 13:05 said:
“Goram had one contract each”
LOL
Samond’s Leap (I have a crystal ball tuned to Oct 2014).
I hear Paul Gascoine is en route to Ibrox with a coat, a tin of lager, and a fishing pole… (thumbsup)
“The Big Brother Hoose”. Sensational.
Auld Neil Lennon heid, just a guess.
neveralone . indeed.
Afternoon all
The answer to the question of why the SFA has said very little on this subject was encapuslated by last night’s BBC program Fit for Europe.
Oh it was all very reasonable sounding, but made no mention of the issues in Mordor. It talked about cohesion at the top echelons of the game. However, one slight problem with that. You have to consider who made last night’s program, and cohesive with who exactly?
The SFA, and Rangers are linked by years of turning a blind eye to things when convenient. I mean, we are known for being paranoid, aren’t we? And yet we are discovering new stories about corruption within Scottish football on a daily basis. Given the number of people who have worked both for the SFA, and Rangers over the years, should we really be surprised?
Then, when we look at the journalist, and I use that term loosely, that made last night’s program. He has been nothing but a mouthpiecs for RFC for more years than any of us cares to remember. His most recent ‘scoop’ was to somehow try to discredit Celtic for not handing over money into a bootomless pit where there was no guarantees of anything in return. Several businessmen down here in England I know, nearly pee’d themselves when i explaiend the real circumstances. When I told them about the way this turn of events was being portrayed by the Daily Rectum, they were speechless that anyone could be so naive.
Surely to make Scotland fit for Europe, the subject of cheating an unbelievable level by one of our supposed top teams has to enter the equation. The fact that Rangers have won so many trophies under such dubious circumstances, and where one is forced to ask if the SFA not only knew, but were possibly duplicitous in these events would have to be resolved to make us fit for Europe. So, when the SFA seem to be sweeping these events under the carpet, we should be angry, but not surprised. Both they, and the press have been doing it for years.
Still, one thing that we can all await. Once Rangers disappear, and the apparent breakdown in talks between players and the administrators makes this even more likely, then perhaps we will really find out if Chick Young really does support St. Mirren. :-)
Hail Hail
Another gem from Gray on TS when he was talking to dignity: “it’s not as if it was match-fixing or anything like that”
Rangers players are lined up in front of Paul Clark with their contract. Then they’ve to line up in front of David Whitehouse with the other one.
Grimmond McCrummoch………..history awaits you!
Cellik go Wylde
BUMP the Kit man
Just spat my lunch out!!
12.50pm: Sky Sports report that Mervan Celik has been released. He joined from GAIS in January.
It’s like the end of Scarface…..a bloodbath with only one outcome : the termination of Tony Montana a.k.a. Rankers.
I know; my imagination is running riot,but the demise of that fascist,criminal organisation is one of the best things to happen for Scotland.
Maybe it can get out from being under all that Masonry,now that their shock troops are being disbanded.
Hail! Hail!
AJ was right, “theres a gorilla in the room, but we don’t know what size it is” its King Kong and he’s brought his pals!
And the celik go. Wylde with delight,
2 administrators
2 contracts
Maks sense tae me
Duff & Phelps and all their hangers on, came up to Murray Park Gates,
with heart hand and sword shield, we just aw walked away!
ALTOGETHER NOW!
The cry was NO DEFERRALS
NO DEFERRALS now we’ll die….por cierto.
Workfare for McCulloch. (thumbsup)
tigertim on 6 March, 2012 at 13:10 said:
AJ was right, “theres a gorilla in the room, but we don’t know what size it is” its King Kong and he’s brought his pals!
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And someone seems to have fed them laxitives!!!!!!
Snake Plissken – 2 Contracts, No Cup (thumbsup)
Even if they are allowed to come back in some way, the biggest deal will be how the improper registration issue pans out.
I for one would sacrifice their complete destruction if the league titles were rescinded and at least one of Tommy’s seasons could be a league winning one.
One thing nagging me about the “lists” which appeared and discussions which have taken place wrt who goes and stays at the Hunderdome (They do like Tina Turner).
Why do Davis, Greeeegsy and Whitaker’s names not appear on any of them??
Surely the new contracts mean they are the 3 highest earners?
A question raised a couple of weeks agio with regards to who holds contracts for these players part of this ommision????
Maybe I’ve missed it with so much going on but their names do not appear and made me wonder.
Mucker
J&ICSC
Changed my mind on the Welfare to Work programme. I would like to see Elbows working in Tesco for hee haw. He should be assigned to the bargain section at the end of each day and suffer the ignominy of being elbowed by bargain hunting women, determined to get a slice of smkoed haddock for 5p.
philvis @ 13.11
Now that’s a neocon idea we can all agree with.
Even Robert Tressell agrees!
SSN-5 players have asked to leave.
Mervan Cellick played the equivalent of around three complete game for the huns.
Good value for £250K + wages?
5 players have asked to be released. No more names as of yet.
Charles Patterson of SSN looking like slitting his wrists!
5 players have asked to be released
its turning into a ‘Walk’
Somehow, it’s quite poignant that the last player ever signed by rANGERs (IA) was called “Celik”…