At some point today those who believed Rangers have, or should have, impunity from the law of the land, as well as the rules and regulations of Scottish football, will awaken to the realisation that this is not the case.
Soon thereafter another thought will arrive: what about the impending Improper Registration of Players charge?
Over a decade of subverting every competition they have played in. Denying clubs who register players correctly the right to compete on a level playing field. Grabbing prize money and the abundant financial rewards of Champions League football rightly due to others – more on this later in the week.
This charge brings every domestic and European competition they played in into disrepute and is several times the magnitude than that which Rangers were punished for yesterday. Then consider bringing the game into disrepute by chasing football bling instead of paying taxes, a separate issue from player registration.
The toxicity of these charges is enormous and if upheld will bring punishments appropriate for corrupting over 700 football games. A whole raft of disciplinary procedures has still to take place. If the misdemeanours of the Craig Whyte era have caused distress, those of the old board, including Ogilvie, Johnston and the Murray twins, will soon establish Rangers current owner as a mere footnote in the club’s demise.
Show of hands, who sat on the board that spent £4m on Jelavic two years after the HMRC investigation into EBTs started?
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Anyway…..
Priorities!
The new roadworks outside Celtic Park.
The approaches to the stadium towards the main façade all look to have been widened considerably so that when you approach from a distance you really get the impact and wow factor.
Apart from when you approach from Bridgeton! Get that bloody carbuncle of a superstore punted somewhere else, it totally ruins the impact.
Art of War
I think so – think there’s real animosity between them. Two cheeks of the same arse though.
I’m sure Dingwall has many more members but he’s pocketed their subs !!
Thanks Bhoys for posting that SJFC link – very much enjoyed it.
On the whole rangers issue it really is amazing they have lasted so long.
And in some ways it’s sad that a once proud club is left on the shelf like a stinking out of date sausage.
notthebus on 24 April, 2012 at 22:53 said:
“Here’s Fat Sally making a big fat fool of himself”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJXFJyxr0Lk&feature=youtu.be
To be absolutely 110% clear and honest to God fair, It is not easy to make sense when you are in such pain.
And I am talking about the interviewer as well as McCoist.
Remember we only played that Chelsea game to pay for Jarosik.
Strage that there have been posts about the make up of the Chelsea support and their, perceived or otherwise, links to the huns. Then just after there are posts about a game against Villa in Birmingham in support of Stan.
Probably the worst violence I’ve seen following Celtic was at St Andrew’s when we played Birmingham City.
hamiltontim on 24 April, 2012 at 23:20 said:
Don’t have a problem with opposition fans disliking us intensely so long as it’s for footballing reasons and nothing else.
Yes, that’s exactly how I feel. In fact, I enjoy rivalry like that and always feel that’s how it should be. Maybe if the huns go we can get Scottish football to that stage.
You can see the quality(no laughing please ) of the huns by their leaders Dingwall and McMillan.Nuff said.
brucecassavetes – Aye it was obvious, I don’t think I’ve ever seen two `guests’ sit so far apart. Haha.
PS.
Do you think when Rankers went into administration that Fat Sal had a Dr Pepper’s with his Gregg’s bag of donuts and thought –
“Hell, what’s the worse that could happen?”
HH
Googling Greatest Sports Scandals gives you some American lists like the one below of sporting scandals.
Where will the Rangers Tax Evasion, Improper Registration Cheating Scandal come on this list – scraping into second?
The 11 Biggest Sports Scandals of All-Time
April 25, 2011 07:00 AM
by Denis Cummings
The baseball steroid scandal is often called the biggest scandal in sports history, but there are many contenders for that distinction. Finding Dulcinea reviews 11 of the biggest sports scandals ever.
11: Lebon and Cinzano
Cinzano was a champion Uruguayan horse; Lebon was an also-ran who looked very much like Cinzano. The two were flown to the United States in 1977 by veterinarian Mark Gerard, and Cinzano apparently died soon after. Gerard collected a $150,000 insurance payment for Cinzano and bet heavily on Lebon in a race at Belmont Park. Lebon, with 57-to-1 odds, won easily and Gerard won $80,440.
A Uruguayan newspaperman, perhaps tipped off by a female acquaintance of Gerard who lost $10,000 in Lebon’s first race, alerted New York racing authorities that the horse that won was not Lebon, but Cinzano.
10: The 2000 Spanish Paralympic Basketball Team
The Spanish basketball team won gold in the intellectual disability tournament at the 2000 Paralympic Games. There was one problem: 10 of the team’s 12 players had no disability. “We were encouraged to pretend to be stupid,” said player Carlos Ribagorda. Their scam was discovered soon after the Games and they were forced to return their medals.
9: The 1951 New York Giants
The 1951 New York Giants made one of the greatest comebacks in baseball history, erasing a 13-game deficit to catch their archrival Brooklyn Dodgers and beat them in a three-game playoff. In 2001, several former Giants players confirmed the long-held belief of Dodgers players and fans by admitting to stealing signs during the final 10 weeks of the season.
The Giants had a coach sit in center field with a telescope and relay the opposing team’s signs to the dugout with an electronic buzzer. The Giants’ Bobby Thompson, who ended the playoff with a game-winning home run, insists that he was not given a stolen sign when he hit the “shot heard ’round the world.”
8: Tim Donaghy
In 2007, a story broke that NBA referee Tim Donaghy had provided professional gamblers with inside information, bet on games he refereed and manipulated the outcome of games. Though commissioner David Stern branded him as a “rogue, isolated criminal,” the credibility of NBA referees, which wasn’t strong to begin with, was damaged immensely.
Donaghy recently tried to release a book that detailed the way he and other referees would manipulate games. The publisher has canceled the book, but excerpts of it were printed on the Web site Deadspin.
7: Danny Almonte
Danny Almonte was the star of the 2001 Little League World Series, pitching a perfect game, no-hitter and one-hit shutout in three starts for his Bronx, N.Y., team. He became a national celebrity and received a key to the city from New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani. However, there were questions surrounding his age, and on Aug. 30, a week after he pitched his final game, Sports Illustrated revealed that he was two years older than he claimed to be.
His team was forced to forfeit all its games, and his father and coach were banned from Little League. Today, the 21-year-old Almonte, after struggling in the low minor leagues, is playing junior college baseball for Western Oklahoma St.
6: Rosie Ruiz
In 1980, unheralded runner Rosie Ruiz crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon before any other woman, winning with a women’s record time of two hours, 31 minutes. Ruiz did not appear sweaty or fatigued, and nobody had seen her running early in the race.
According to varying witness accounts, Ruiz had taken the subway toward the finish line and entered the race with a half-mile left. Though she steadfastly denied cheating, she was disqualified and the victory was awarded to second-place finisher Jacqueline Gareau.
5: Tonya Harding and Nancy Kerrigan
On Jan. 6, a month before the start of the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Olympics, figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was clubbed in the knee after a practice for the U.S. Olympic Trials. Soon into the investigation it was revealed that the attacker had been hired by the ex-husband of Tonya Harding, one of Kerrigan’s competitors. Though Harding did not know of the attack beforehand, she learned of it soon after and lied to investigators.
The story became a tabloid sensation. At the Olympics, Kerrigan won silver and went on to sign many endorsements and host “Saturday Night Live.” Harding wept during her routine after her skate lace broke and finished eighth. A national pariah, she was banned for life by U.S. figure skating and has since had many run-ins with the law and briefly had a career as a professional boxer.
4: Pete Rose
Pete Rose retired in 1986 as baseball’s all-time hit king, but he might never make the Hall of Fame. In 1989, an MLB investigation determined that, as manager of the Cincinnati Reds, Rose had gambled on baseball games during the 1985, ’86 and ’87 seasons. That same year, commissioner Bart Giamatti handed Rose a lifetime ban.
Rose denied gambling on baseball for many years, and frequently pleaded to be re-admitted and inducted into the Hall of Fame. In 2004, he admitted to gambling on baseball and in 2007, he admitted to betting on the Reds “every night.”
3: College Basketball Point-Shaving in New York
In 1950, City College of New York shocked college basketball by winning the NIT and NCAA tournament. The following year, the team was at the center of a massive point-shaving scandal organized by New York mobsters.
The scandal included four New York-area schools plus Toledo, Bradley and Kentucky, all of whom had players manipulating the score during games at Madison Square Garden. In all, 32 players were arrested for fixing 86 games between 1947 and 1950.
2: The “Black Sox”
The 1919 Chicago White Sox were one of baseball’s best teams, but they were paid far less than players on other teams. Looking to make a quick buck, first baseman Chick Gandil organized a group of six other players to conspire with professional gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series. The White Sox lost the World Series five games to three to the Cincinnati Reds, with pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude “Lefty” Williams—two of the fixers—combining to lose all five games.
Investigators uncovered the plot and the following September Cicotte and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson—whose involvement in the fix is disputed, as he played well during the series—admitted to fixing the World Series. The seven fixers, plus Buck Weaver, who knew of the fix but didn’t report it, were banned from baseball for life.
1: Nelson Piquet Jr.’s Intentional Crash
At the Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix in September 2008, the Renault team ordered driver Nelson Piquet Jr. to intentionally crash his car, which gave teammate Fernando Alonso the victory.
The Times of London’s Simons Barnes, calling the act the “worst single piece of cheating in the history of sport,” wrote, “This is no run-of-the-mill piece of skulduggery. The Renault team’s crime was not an act of cheating as mere fraudulence. Rather, it was cheating as a potentially lethal act; as potential murder, if you like.”
Snake Plissken on 24 April, 2012 at 23:08 said:
awesome post
Newsnight Scotland….
Lovely young lawyer from THC Law outlining role of creditors in the process at Rangers (IA).
I never took in a word that she said. I have however, Sky plussed it and will watch it a further six or seven times. At least. Very pleasing on the eye, and when I get around to listening properly – I’m sure she is giving us good news into the bargain.
Much better than Speirs and Dimwall:)
Snake
Great stuff mate, well said.
celt55
Cosgrove has the “on the ball”program and is often on shortbread . He’s abusing his position by continuingly attacking Celtic and Neil Lennon on air.
Wheres the balance ? Whos regulary on radio -TV saying good things about Celtic? .
He was good tonight but it was a shock to hear it coming from him.
Could the panel members be. Brown Mc Master, George Peat & Sean Connery??
Some FF goodies
Greaves Sports is the next legitimate target
Greaves, Glasgow based, retail partner of the Scottish FA must be boycotted. They are a smaller organisation who will feel the effect of a mass boycott pretty quickly.
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hit them, and hit them HARD!
let it be known that ANYONE who backs the SFA financially will feel our wrath
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I don’t buy from Greaves sports anyway, so it will be easy for me to Boycott them
Ghuys , good evening. How is everyone ?
I know i’m not the sharpest tool in the CQN box but I could really do with some help understanding this conundrum .
Truism : Scottish Football (especially SPL) needs Ran*ers .
Now explain to me the difference between
them being in the 3rd division and NOT bestowing any largesse on SPL teams and
newco being parachuted into the SPL and their entire support boycotting away games and NOT bestowing any largesse on SPL teams
Sabre67 on 24 April, 2012 at 23:30 said:
Newsnight Scotland….
Saw that.
A waste of time.
Didn’t even attempt to answer what she was asked, just talked in general terms.
Same with the wee accountant guy Petty.
About as informative as Dalziel on SSB.
Snake Plissken on 24 April, 2012 at 23:08 said:
About time the loyal cardigans name was brought up, I was beginning to think I had imagined his tainted reign.
McOist’s comments are scandalous. It’s a thinly disguised call to arms.
Lenny would get deported for talking like that.
The standard of debate on Clyde tonight has me very concerned for our safety on Sunday. Take care, guys.
Poor Ally.
Sheems hish team ish fecked if he cant shine any shenior players next sheashon and play in the esh pee ell, to be honesht.
To Hampden in protest
sannabhoy on 24 April, 2012 at 23:40 said
‘I know i’m not the sharpest tool in the CQN box….’
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I never read the rest of your post but I totally agree with you
Snake Plissken on 24 April, 2012 at 23:08 said:
You must have enjoyed writing that almost as much as I enjoyed reading it !
ernie lynch on 24 April, 2012 at 23:42 said:
Sabre67 on 24 April, 2012 at 23:30 said:
Newsnight Scotland….
Thought the main problem was the quality and pertinence of the questions. Quite like Gordon Brewer but he asks the same questions all the time as far as this subject is concerned.
I suspect he’s not much of a sports fan and thinks all this is a bit below the dignity of Newsnight. Could be wrong about it – just my impression!
BRT&H
Did Sno get the goal that night? He was terrific.
Think the attendance was quite low wasn’t it by their modern standards?
The worst of them came out of the woodwork. Think I’ve heard if you have a banning order it’s possible to circumvent it for friendly games etc.
My job at the time (strictly of the lackey variety) was bringing me into contact with a fair few US bankers and VCs that lived in Eton Square and had season-tickets at Stamford Bridge, figured the bad times had been consigned to the ole dustbin of history – I seriously under-estimated the aggro factor that night.
It was not a pleasant evening, but it was serene right up until we got near to the gates to go in. There was even a wee Irish bar by West Brompton tube belting out the Celtic tunes. Usually a home pub I think.
Then it all went upside down.
Nearest ground to me and I nearly got my head kicked in by out-of-towners on an awayday.
Tis a strange town at times.
Corrrect me if I’m wrong:
Craig Whyte owns 85% of Ranjurz(ia)
Craig Whyte was praised by both the press and ranjurz supporters groups for ‘stepping up to the plate’ when no-one else was prepared to.
Ally informed the meeja that he had a very close working relationship with Craig Whyte, (they spoke on a daily basis)
David Murray(sir,ia) repeatedly stated through various respected Scottish journalists, that he would only sell the club to the ‘right people’ even if they were not the highest bidder.
Gordon Smith had previously worked at the SFA, was a registered players’ agent and had also worked for the scottish print/broadcast media before taking up his role of Director of football.
Craig Whyte has said before, during and after the event that he believes the disciplinary tribunal to be a ‘farce’.
What would Whyte’s grounds of appeal be?
Cannot believe those who are saying Barca are a washed up side. Yes they are not quite the side of last year but in all honesty if they had taken their chances over the the two legs not many would have disagreed with a 7 or 8 goal winning margin. . As for the comments about Messi do me a favour…he had an off-night, all great players do . I think Pep should have replaced Uranca and Fabregas ( who imo is not Barca class) sooner than he did. Frankly David Villa has been missed.
I hate to see the cattenacio style of football prevailing……Chelsea performed it well tonight but over the two legs they will know they enjoyed a considerable amount of luck to reach the final.
STRUTH How long before CW falls out of a rowing boat?
MWD MAN OVERBOARD
iki
You’d think so but it actually makes me angry when I think of the lies which will be presented as facts tomorrow.
bamboo
I had the same thought last weekend listening to Radio Scotland with John Robertson providing a very pro-Hearts interpretation of the game events and, to my mind, having a real unfair go at Neil Lennon.
I thought who would be allowed to speak in favour of Celtic in the same way that Cosgrove does for St. J, Cowan for M/well, and Robertson for Hearts? Or like BFDJ, Chico and Dalziel do for der Hun.
I mean with passion and bias. Its like some reverse discrimination policy where, if you’re a fan of a diddy club, you can get patronised with stories about how everything goes against you and the big 2 get everything. But there’s nothing bent about the refereeing, just the influence of the crowd and the refs are only human.
Whenever an ex-Celt comes on, they have to sell their soul to get the gig. Whether they are controversialists like Burley or reverting to past loyalties like Provan and McLeod or just plain pretentious assholes like Nevin, an ex-Celt would not be allowed to be pro-Celtic and inconsiderate of alternative viewpoints in the way that supporters of Hearts, Motherwell , St. Johnstone and faux-St. Mirren fans can be.
BBJ is the nearest we have but good candidates like Tosh McKinlay and Tom Boyd have lost out to the terminally inarticulate like Dalziel and Ferguson because they will not be sell-outs.
When I see and hear McCoist on that video I wonder just how deep was the ugliness of what he whispered into Neil’s ear.
fanadpatriot on 24 April, 2012 at 21:54 said:
Question?
Would you want Celtic to win Champions League playing like THAT.
April 25, 1967 Dukla Prague 0 Celtic 0
Stevie Chalmers played a lone role up front.
bamboo on 24 April, 2012 at 23:34 said:
He was good tonight but it was a shock to hear it coming from him.
I must admit, I didn’t expect it either, but I still don’t mind a St. Johnstone fan having no time for another team.
Jeromek67 on 24 April, 2012 at 23:47 said:
Barca’s problem tonight was that they didn’t have a big, in your face, target man/striker to use as a Plan B when Plan A obviously wasn’t working.
Wee Sally with his innocent wee boy acting…
(actually he is quite good at it)
“All we want is fairness”
“Just looking for a bit of help”
(managed not to wink)
“Who are these people?”
(because they are obviously not peepil)
Wee bloke will be there