There has been a pattern for me in recent days. I’ve read a statement by a current/former football club director, then I’ve gone looking for corroboration, just in case the report is a sabotaged attempt to make the author appear foolish.
A statement was released by former Rangers chairman, Alastair Johnston yesterday, discussing the current SPL Commission looking into how his board administered football player contracts. I agree with him that any “capital punishment decision” should not be left to the SPL, but the SPL have no authority to impose capital punishment on a football club. The decision to terminate a football club can only be taken by the SFA (I am discounting the reckless behaviour of directors), and is perhaps a reason the SFA decided to delegate this inquiry to the league. It is interesting timing for Johnston to put this on the table.
Johnston’s main thrust is in connection with the SPL Commission, saying “the SFA wrote to us asking for more details about the public speculation concerning our financial and tax situation. The latter obviously referenced the impact of the EBT schemes as creating a potential taxation liability.
“The club responded accordingly and provided details, as it had done in previous years, by declaring player salaries, bonuses, benefits, etc., but also payments made to a Remuneration Trust. The SFA compliance officers must have known, both from the description and context of the reports, that such expenditures had some connection to player compensation.
“However, without any further investigation at the time, Rangers FC received its SFA license to compete in the 2011/2012 season. Rangers, therefore, were entitled to believe that they were not in breach of any SFA regulation requiring reporting of player compensation.”
Mr Johnston clearly implies that the SFA were in receipt of sufficient information to ascertain if Rangers correctly registered players (and considering the SFA president was on the board which sanctioned these decision was have to wonder), but the key point is missing from his testimony.
While disclosing this information to the SFA did Rangers reveal the existence of the alleged second contracts? For the purposes of the SPL Commission, it doesn’t really matter how much players were paid, or if they received this money through a Remuneration Trust, what matters is: were contracts submitted and players correctly registered? If not, then it doesn’t matter what else the club submitted to the SFA.
Sir David Murray, then Rangers owner, vehemently denied the existence of second contracts as recently as March this year, so it would appear unlikely that Rangers revealed these allegedly non-existent contracts at an earlier date.
Labouring this point slightly Johnston said: If the SFA now decide to adopt a more focused evaluation of the data they request from its members in order to be granted a license, they should ensure that the legislation upon which they rely for enforcement and the corresponding sanctions are more transparent and predictable.”
For clarity, the information the SFA requires in order to grant a club licence is not being changed in any way. The SFA and the SPL do, however, require clubs submit player contracts as part of the player registration process. It is not the club licence which is in doubt here, it is the registration of players, Mr Johnston, we have to wonder why you are trying to focus away from this matter.
Our own club was brought into the issue: “A lawyer representing Celtic recently was successful in having charges against that club dropped because of the inadequacy of the SFA’s prescribed rules, regulations, and sanctions. The same principle should apply here.”
Perhaps time is playing tricks on Mr Johnston’s memory. Paul McBride ensured a punishment imposed on Neil Lennon (not Celtic) was enforced in line with SFA rules. Johnston also meanders on the subjects of match fixing and financial doping, distancing his former club from both, but neither charge is of any consequence.
Despite his extensive diatribe on the subject, at no point does the former Rangers chairman deny the central allegation – that for over a decade Rangers gave dozens of players second contracts which were not registered with the SPL or SFA. Like Charles Green the previous day, he never suggested Rangers have been wrongly accused, he just complains about the club being accused.
There is a degree in Cognitive Bias in this matter if anyone is looking for material.
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TCC,
Your take on Muslim beliefs on Jesus are nearer to the truth than Canamalar. That I agree. It is also true that they revere Our Lady (Miriam). But they also believe that Jesus is merely a prophet in a long line which culminated in Mohamed, the last and most important. They reject any claim of Jesus’ divinity, indeed many complain if a Christian were even to use the term Allah for God, because that -to them- can only refer to the Muslim God. (Never mind that the Arabic word is derived from the Hebrew El, one of the Jewish names for God.) Culture and religion, especially those which have not encountered the Enlightenment, are a heady mix that overly simplistic “enlightened” Western conclusions do not begin to address. (Meanwhile, many innocent Christians suffer.)
theweegreenman
21:17 on
12 September, 2012
AKBW1888
Aye, very good. If I knew that I wouldn’t be doing a 9 to 5! :-)
I would start by getting all the British and American troops out of there for a start.
Where do you think al the US troops from Afghanistan and Iraq are going? Home? Nope. Most are being re-deployed in Jorden, Israel and Saudi. Why is that?
I think that may have a lot to do with the attack on the embassy today don’t you?
Well said 67Heaven
This is not a political forum
TheWeegreenMan
War is certainly not the answer and I don’t think that being bogged down in another
conflict is really going to help the economy when we are already in a double
dip recession and the economy growth is in a complete shambles
scare mongering by certain individuals does not help either all these things are
designed to bring more financial hardship upon everyone who lives here
In the UK we are already paying £7 for a gallon of petrol would they pay that sort
of money over in the States, no chance.
Also said fuel cost’s have a knock on effect on the price of everything else we
buy like food clothes etc-etc so does it make sense to go and rock the boat
in an Area where one depends on fuel from said Location the simple answer
to that is No
conflict
hamiltontim
21:20 on 12 September, 2012
St John Doyle
I just CANNOT understand why no one who would have known about this didn’t ‘blow the whistle’ years ago …… Astounding
BT
No probs mate
Cheers anyway
HH
The Guildford 4, the Birmingham 6, the Macguire 7, Liverpool fans……..just some who have had the misfortune to have suffered at the hands of political and police corruption.
Why does it take decades to prove innocence?
God bless the 96 and may he bring consolation and peace to the families of the deceased.
Rip YNWA.
Ps…… Charlie has lost the plot…..Minty and Ogilvie going to jail…..Souness, Smith and Sally are going to hell.
Oldco titles stripped……..the big hoose is gonnae shut! Phil’s book a belter, great to see it all in glorious print………..the manky mob cannot get any murkier , can they?
St John Doyle
Meant to say thank you for your recent efforts re the bucket collection.
Burghbhoy, 21:39
Just the two going to jail? I don’t think so…
Stevo 21.04
Bul**hit.
I lived in the east end of London for nearly 4 years.
Most cockneys I got to know were salt of the earth.The local boozer on a Sunday afternoon
was like the league of the united nations.
Tolerance that would put Ayrshire to shame.
The Comfortable Collective
21:07 on 12 September, 2012
This site has been rancid tonight with frankly abhorant anti muslim sentiment. It makes this site no better than follow follow.
Ignorant comments form the usual suspects are to be expected, but I expect better from Canamalar at 20:53. “islam tell the world that the Christ was a lunatic”.
That is total bullshit.
In Islamic texts, it is taught that Jesus was divinely chosen to preach the message of monotheism and submission to the will of God. He is revered as a prophet.
“CQN – where religeous ignorance and sectarian lies are peddled by an ignorant, but vocal, and well respected group of posters”.
Remind you of any other football clubs blogs?
Am away, nighty night.
P.s. in an article in the 1970′s, Ian Archer was forced to end it by saying he wasn’t a Roman Catholic, such would be the reaction to his anti rangers article.
So if anyone is wondering I love the bevvie and the bacon too much to be a muslim.
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And if you can’t see how highly offensive the words below are to a Christian then you yourself are no better than anyone on FF. :))
“In Islamic texts, it is taught that Jesus was divinely chosen to preach the message of monotheism and submission to the will of God. He is revered as a prophet.”
If you think this proves that Islam and their belief venerates Jesus then you are very easily deceived. It is a blatant attempt to undermine Christianity and the fact Jesus was God incarnate.
Jesus is indeed revered by Muslims as a prophet.
The Koran also states that he was not crucified and that he did not die on the cross – it states that another was crucified in his place.
Canamalar, because that’s like fighting fire with fire.
hamiltontim
20:44 on
12 September, 2012
AKBW1888
20:12 on
12 September, 2012
The Celtic support get filmed by the police at every away game.
Hamilton Tim, Not every away domestic match are the police
filming the Hoops Support.
hamiltontim, starry,
Actually all these mirrors of mine are quite hefty, could pack a punch, if a little ungainly and difficult to conceal.
I like them floor to ceiling naturally:)
67heaven
As people have said, the dogs in the street knew the real story of Hillsborough very soon after the events took place.
It became like Bloody Sunday, Pat Finnucane and Myra Hindley, successive Home Secretaries didn’t have the nachos to deal with it in public.
The wifes cousin lives in Luxor, Egypt, last week he paid 33 cents US for a litre of petrol, we bought him the car, he asked us to send him more for house sitting, at 20 euros a month he is now struggling.
She told him to get a job.
parkheadcumsalford
21:37 on 12 September, 2012
Why can’t people allow other people to believe what they want to believe, and to practise their religion as they see fit …….. One eejit sees an opportunity to make money from insulting a specific religion, KNOWING WHAT THE REACTION WILL BE …… If scum like that are ignored, how far will they go..?……. I despair, I really do…….. We have witnessed racial / religious intolerance in this Country, and it is totally despicable…
hamiltontim
21:45 on
12 September, 2012
Right……….. No wonder I rejected politics many years ago
Setting Free the Bears – You have made my point far more eloquently than I ever could.
canamalar – still disagree with you re Islam’s view of Christ. Still agree with 97% of everything else you say, and apologies for not making that clear in my initial post.
Kojo – predictable and right on time. A bit Like the tram to Auckenshuggle. You would be a treat to read if you were not a bigot.
Hamiltontim and Parkheadcumsalford – agree with the two of you with regard to Jesus’s role in Islam. Was just trying to highlight how highly he is regarded by the Muslims, son of God or not.
Away this time.
exceptions to every rule tooting …..
apologies and a generalisation too far perhaps borne of growing up governed from there when i felt like no-one is scotland could possibly have elected any of them and then worked for companies based there who treated everything that was not from there like it was dog shit they stood on (but wanted a slice of the oil money anyway). I always felt something in common with any english person I met apart from londoners (struggle a bit this edinburgh too) but i must be meeting the wrong ones. So again apologies
Evening guys , just a post highlighting the efforts of my sons school John Paul Academy to raise funds for Wee Oscar .
Following our leaflet drop to publicise our own bucket collection some of the pupils who received leaflets that day decided to organise some events of their own .
First up will be a Bag Pack at our local Asda in Summmerston on Sunday .
Then a football match at John Paul Academy on Wednesday afternoon.
Then a bike ride from the school to Celtic Park sometime in October.
I will be helping out on Sunday at the bag pack and with some other items but this is a pupil led fundraiser and both the school and the pupils deserve all the credit for their efforts.
Sorry for the long post but I think the school , John Paul Academy and the pupils deserve our support.
Will keep you updated on funds raised, thanks for reading .
Hail Hail
Just scanning through re Hillsborough, as an honorary Mancunian in the 80s , it was common practice for the English police in the 80s when faced with a crowd ‘problem’ outside the ground, rather than engage their brain and police the situation, they more often and not just opened the gates.
What happened at Sheffield could have happened in lots of grounds, police incompetence followed up by the usual cover up.
Punishment now has to follow, properly
petec
21:43 on 12 September, 2012
Have to agree with you ……… Resisting religious prejudice is not restricted to Irish Scots…
AKBW1888,
prior to the russian invasion of afganistan, the country had a massive bhudist population who remained throughout the occupation, after the occupation they were eradicated by fundamentalist muslims, their places of worship destroyed.
There was a massive christian population who suffered the same fate as the bhudists, now explain to me why you think there is another way to fight this fire.
As I said Islam defeated the crusades and have now the fundamentalists have adopted that course of action, against all other. sorry pal IMO they are 700 years out of date and will only respect 700 year old strategies.
Good news that the Truth has come out about Hillsborough despite the most sinister of cover ups at the highest levels.
And well done Andy Murray, it is awesome having a Scotsman as a Grand Slam winner, go on and get the number 1 spot, you certainly deserve it.
AKBW1888
21:44 on
12 September, 2012
Canamalar, because that’s like fighting fire with fire.
hamiltontim
20:44 on
12 September, 2012
AKBW1888
20:12 on
12 September, 2012
The Celtic support get filmed by the police at every away game.
Hamilton Tim, Not every away domestic match are the police
filming the Hoops Support.
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I beg to differ. I can’t remember the last time I didn’t see the polis filming either inside or outside the ground.
OpiateofthemassesCSC…
:-))
Auldheid @2024 Re Wembley 1979
I was talking to some guys at work about crushing at footy games, and this was the worst I’ve ever experienced.
My dad took myself and my younger brother to the game. We were 15yo and 13yo respectively.
All I can remember about Wembley was that we were pinned against a wall and getting crushed. The wall divided the upper and lower section. An ananolgy would be if the Broomloan Rd end was all standing, then we were at the very back of Front Stand. My brother was in a lot of bother and really struggling when the guys sitting on the wall above him lifted him up. Again using the Broomloan Rd as an example, it would be the guys overhanging the front of the Rear Stand.
Thank God for their help.
And thank God for Scotland scoring first which sent all the people pushing us back against the wall forward. It gave us room to breathe and to manouvre to a decent standing space.
I also remember we had to walk for miles after the game because of a tube strike.
We were also at Paisley in the 2-3 Cup replay which was really terrible. Totally unexpected crowd turned up for that game. Terrible scenes of crushing outside the ground.
SPF
angelgabriel
21:40 on 12 September, 2012
ABSOLUTLEY SPOT ON …….I HAVE WORKED CLOSELY WITH ENGLISH FOLK FOR MANY, MANY YEARS AND THEY COULD TEACH US A LOT ABOUT TOLERANCE ….. THIS IS A SHAMEFUL COUNTRY, BUT NOT ALL SCOTS ARE BIGOTS…IT SEEMS TO PERVADE THE FOOTBALL ESTABLISHMENT ONLY…
yesilvebeyaz 21.30
Funny you mention that game.
I was at the Celtic v Clyde game at Shawfield where the wall collapsed,tragically killing ,I think,two children.
That may well be the game you`re thinking of.
The score sounds about right.
Late `50s.
Thatcher,I think, got the blame.
good night bhoys..
god the fathersonandholyspirit bless… o))
To get a sense of how fans were treated with contempt by their clubs, by the police, by the local council authorities, in fact by pretty much anyone with the slightest bit of power to change the dangerous lot of the football fan in the bygone era of sardine terracing, one need look no further than the shockingly blasé attitude displayed by the lot of them to a string of small, but very dangerous incidents that would eventually culminate in the deaths of 66 poor souls who set out to see their team line up in the traditional ne’er derby in 1971.
It is a terribly shocking indictment on those who ran football that conditions barely improved from that fateful day to the one 18 years later.
The narrow corridors through the terrace at Gorgie Road.
The two metre wide mud path up the back of Easter Road.
Our very own death traps: steps off the side of the Celtic End – sheesh this survived barely changed (wider steps) until Fergus McCann set about building what we sit in now and the narrow stairwells at der orken end.
Dens Park’s 6 stairwells for a terrace that held in excess of 8,000 people.
Lower League grounds with ‘dry stream beds’ in ash banks loosely propped up by rotting railway sleepers that hadn’t changed in 40 years, yet whose terraces felt dangerously overcrowded when as little as half their record crowd turned up.
Disgusting. And but for guilty luck, Hillsborough could have happened any given weekend in any number of grounds up and down the UK (and elsewhere).
That the people who ran the game and organised security would then conspire to blame victims of a terrible tragedy for their own shortcomings, nay, for their dereliction of duty, is utterly contemptible. Utterly contemptible.
Fourgreenfields
Great news mate the pupils deserve real credit for showing initiative and compassion.
I blame Catholic school (teachers)
:-)
Reading that Juninho EBT was severance pay. Contract already lodged with SPL, it was upto Celtic how they paid the outstanding amount. Anyway, deemed iffy by Celtic board and it was withdrawn and tax paid.
Just had a quick glance through a random selection of posts. This is not Celtic Quick News.
Well, certainly not Celtic and certainly not News; possibly quick.
Good Night,
JJ
Mohammad Mosaddegh was elected democratically in the early 1950s in Iran.
His govt. decided to nationalise the oilfields…horrified the CIA and MI6 orchestrated a coup…led by the improbably monikered Kermit Roosevelt.
IMHO, the full payload (‘blowback’, in CIA argot) of this coup finally arrived in 1979 with the Ayatollahs’ revolution.
Is the rise in fundamentalism an inevitable consequence of the refusal of western powers to allow democratic political government to carry out policies which they disagree with?
Discuss…
hamiltontim
Thanks mate , will pass on your best wishes.
Valley Parade in Bradford.
56 dead and over 250 badly injured.
SFTB
There has been no stereo typing of Muslims in my posts. There are some serious issues in the Middle East and the poor folk that live there are being put through the ringer.It is going to get a lot worse before it gets better as well.
I put the blame at the door of the countries who are over there interfering.
What I can’t stomach though is that when even a cartoon causes so much outrage at the same time people can be openly anti-catholic in this country or anti-christian in others and it is actually ignored or gloss over. Regardless of the perpetrator’s religion.
No to censoring!
One for the road.
Petec.
I was just trying to put straight the opinion of Jesus in Islam – not agreeing or disagreeing just clarifying. That is what they believe. You take umbridge at me for simply explaining the position of Islam.
Why take offence at learning what other people believe. I take it you are not an anthropologist?
Good grief.
However you say,
“.. and the fact Jesus was God incarnate”
Fact. Fact. FACT!
Clarify that.