Yesterday the Scottish Football Association announced an independent inquiry into Rangers FC which will report to the SFA board within two weeks.
While it is welcome that the enquiry is independent, it is gravely concerning that the SFA refused to state the scope of the inquiry or indicate if the final report will be made public. An inquiry into the Fit and Proper status of Craig Whyte is moot. An inquiry into last year’s takeover of the club, or how it has conducted its tax business before and after the takeover surely cannot report within three weeks of Rangers going into administration and before the outcome of the tax tribunal is known. So what are the objectives of the report?
The important question the SFA must address is whether Rangers FC improperly registered football players. Rules on the legal registration of football players are clear and well established. All financial compensation offered to players must be part of their contracts, copies of which must be lodged with the club’s national association.
This audio file contains information from Player’s Union representative, Fraser Wishart, who correctly tells Radio Clyde listeners that “in football you’re only allowed one contract, all your earnings from football have to be on that contract”.
The same audio file has excerpts of football journalist, Darrell King, repeatedly telling Radio Clyde listeners that Rangers players involved with EBTs “had two contracts”. This assertion has not been subject to challenge by Rangers.
The major question for the SFA is whether, as alleged by Mr King, Rangers FC played improperly registered players from around 2000 until the expiry of those contracts, some of which are likely to still be active. While they are doing so, it would be useful to extend the inquiry to examine recent contracts.
My primary concern regarding the inquiry is the role of the SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie, in framing the scope of the inquiry. As we reported yesterday, Ogilvie was general secretary and director of Rangers until 2005. He will be able to answer many of the key questions and, as president, will not only have been able to influence the scope of the inquiry, but will be one of the few who receives the report.
Any SFA inquiry into Rangers FC must report on the key matter in this whole business, the proper registration of football players. Any attempt to exclude matters which could involve Mr Ogilvie must be resisted and would show the entire activity up as nothing more than a sham.
The sporting penalty for playing improperly registered players is a 3-0 defeat in each game. Sion have already tested national and international authorities on this matter and are paying a heavy price for trying to gain an unfair advantage.
The stakes are high for Scottish football. The SFA must demonstrate transparency and the highest possible ethical standards when an inquiry into a member club involves past activities of its president. It also has a responsibility to fans and member clubs to establish and report any improper conduct at the earliest opportunity.
My Ogilvie should step aside as a matter of urgency in order to provide evidence to the inquiry.
In a gesture which tests the boundaries of the word magnificent, the Celtic fan who paid £5000 towards the Vanessa Riddle Appeal for the signed Celtic jersey we auctioned last week asked us to put it back up for auction again.
Auctions are a magnificent way to help get Vanessa the lifesaving treatment she needs but the cost of participating at the business end soon gets out of the reach of many fans. With this in mind, we have started an eBay raffle; you can win the jersey for the cost of a £1, or the entire purchase price of Rangers FC PLC.
There are no excuses to sit this one out, Vanessa needs your help, you would like to own a signed Celtic jersey, and you too can afford the kind of money Craig Whyte used to buy Rangers. Click here to participate.
Thank you for the dozens of response to the request for writers for CQN Magazine. I’m still working through them, will be in touch soon. Issue six, our Fit and Proper edition, is set to become a landmark collectors item. You can browse the magazine online here but you can buy your own hard copy by clicking on the link below. Fill your boots…..
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Oh, well. Jacket on, last swig from beer can, and out to meet the bus.
Hard game tonight I think.
Come on the Bhoys!
googybhoy
A specimen. Yes.
Maybe for a lab somewhere in a secret location somewhere secret tests ate carried out for beauty products.
MWD
jhilday
That’ll be the summer in Beith then. Get your shorts on and head for the Masonuc arms beer garden.
MWD
Googybhoy
Hi mate, Cape Verde definitely the place to go if you want a nice relaxing time. Boa Vista was where we were. HH
HECTOR – Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. says:
22 February, 2012 at 17:47
jhilday
That’ll be the summer in Beith then. Get your shorts on and head for the Masonuc arms beer garden.
MWD
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I think I’d rather go to the game.
“You know what it takes to sell real estate?” It takes….brass balls…to sell real estate”
Alec Baldwin
P.s. Mon the Hoops
Ma Team ,fur tonight.
Forster
Cha Izzy
Wilson, Mulgrew
Forrest, Broonie, Ki, Ledley, Sammi
Stokesy.
Kojo
Still.. Laughin’
I was in the Masonic once.
That was enough.
Must dash.
medtim says:
22 February, 2012 at 16:51
No probs
With the lies coming out over Govan way the SFA should be bricking it ,do you think they have appointed these big hitters to attempt to regain some integrity .I agree that our club should set aside some cash from the treble to appoint big hitters of their own and finally put to bed the saga involving ragers Uefa license
hail hail
If MIH can assume liability for several tens of millions of pounds worth of Rangers debt with no tangible return (Rangers sold for £1, debt remained with MIH?) and this is legal – how are people saying that the MBB cannot use the ticketus money for one of his other companies without breaking the law?
I have heard that its only because it was used during takeover but didnt the Glaziers finance their takeover by getting Man Utd to pay for it long term?
What is so different about the MBBs actions to the examples above?
QB
can anybody help me-how can i access stv iplayer
SSN……………Breaking: ‘Rangers ordered to put anything of value up for sale’. On the bright side, at least the players are safe.
verdantvic
this?
http://player.stv.tv/
So the SPL are indeed investigating the sectarian singing at iBrokes at weekend.
I feel a bit left out now, am I the only person not investigating Rankers?
Off to investigate.
verdantvic
You outside the UK?
If so, try Firefox with FoxyProxy plugin, means you can catch iPlayer, so I’m told.
Guys,
Does anybody know if Dennis Desmond (think thats his first name) the big music and festival promoter in Ireland
is related to our own Demot?
Good evening CQN
12 hours after catching the fast train to Manchester, I find myself again on the traini, this tim heading for home :-)
A productive day at work, by this was significantly overshadowed with me meeting yet another CQNer, the famous Googybhoy. Our Manchester correspondent.
A MASSIVE thanks to Googybhoy for chauffeuring me to anf from the hotel my meeting was in. The only disasppointment was I had a passenger on the way back and she curtailed our chat on the famous Hoops. Though I don’t think Googbhoy was too disappointed as the rear view mirror was used excessively – nothing to do with our passenger’s short skirt ;-)
Yet again CQN facilitates not only a helping hand but also introduces me to yet another RGT.
Thanks again Googybhoy for the transport but more importantly your company.
Come on the hoops tonight, one of the very few games I’ve missed this season.
hh
bjmac
thanks twist n turns-problem is i just want to watch the 6 news
SPL will investigate coin throwing at Celtic’s match with Hearts at Tynecastle earlier in the month.
AnotherTakeOverBid CSC
Aipple
no i dont own a tv
Dennis o’brien you mean
verdvantic
you got sky?
verdantvic Ah, OK.
Mick
No,the guy who runs MCD.They put on all the big concerts and security stuff
Anyone know if the polis got paid for the ranglers Killie game?
Jangle Jackass on talksport today saying the game was touch-and-go due to polising costs and only went ahead after talks??
Serge says:
22 February, 2012 at 17:48
Sounds good mate
Moonbeams
Bjmac is a good lad he will be checking for a signal on the train now.
His ears will be burning.
oh sorry mate, not sure who you mean then.
bamboo
All that singing and the Police only made one sectarian arrest, so yes, they must have been paid or it would have been in triple figures.
Noticed somebody earlier flagging up the new facility on the Official Site’s online ticketing system. Just spent 10 minutes of detailed research and I can tell you that, not including VIP seats, boxes etc, we have sold 47,617 tickets for tonight’s game (so far). Hopefully the vast majority of those seat owners will turn up and sing their hearts out.
Jobo
Aipple
I hadnt thought of that.
Big Hartson follows Bournesoup… :-(
The latter is a sad loss to my Tworld
hh
bjmac
Is Karen on Clyde Declan?
“If Rangers are liquidised?”
MWD
Mick says:
22 February, 2012 at 16:57
Huns????
Quote:
“@kylebartley22: Tweeps let me hear some ideas for lent!!”
@purplemadboy:@kylebartley22 Tweeps let me hear some ideas for lent!!”
m8 lent is for Catholics .. We don’t do that !
@kylebartley22:F-6eck lent then.. Hahaha.
Turned into a great Rangers man
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Oh dear. As usual they are displaying their stunning lack of religious knowledge and stunning store of religious intolerance!
Ideas for lent for Kyle Bartley – go back to Arsenal and save your soul!!!
Aipple and Twist n turns
Thanks for your help
BlantyreKev – Parcel=> says:
22 February, 2012 at 17:00
That made me laugh a lot.
You up for maintaining the Kubler-Ross Spatial Hun Map-o-meter?
Make it a daily feature – uppers, downers, new entrants – top 20 to make it manageable?
Keevins is stuck in denial.
Traynor will never leave Anger. He lacks the basic emotional intelligence. He will move from Anger to nothing, as if it didn’t exist. Because he is always right.
Chicko is off the scale (or is it radar). He lacks the most basic cognitive intelligence to even understand what is happening. It will pass him by completely
Spiers is actually in Bargaining – “no gonnae subject us tae cultural punishment for past deeds”.
Whyte is a sociopath – he will not truly feel any of those emotions.
HH
TLK
BJmac
Your a big enough Twit buddy. You’ll be fine.
MWD :-))))
MWD –
That caller has to be a wind up, surely. Not even sure that it is a female!
Jobo