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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Ernie
I never said it was perfect- the intimidation doesn’t help
TLJD
The taxes collected from smokers well covered the cost to the NHS for their care.
It’s conveniant for the government to blame the cost of a broken leg on to someone who smokes.
You being a politico sort of bloke should know about how they massage the figures :>)
Sorry ernie
I think your wrong…. :)
saltires en sevilla
22:27 on
12 September, 2012
Thanks for your post.
I was heavy-hearted when I came on the blog with the horror of Hillsborough reopened and raw, and I couldn’t stomach some of the the subsequent posts which, to me, were mean, pinched, racist and sectarian.
I lived in Bradford for 20-odd years and a lot of my dearest friends are from there. Some of them happen to be Muslim.
I worked for a newspaper in Leeds at the time of the 7/7 terror bombings in London, 7 years ago. Three of the bombers were from Beeston in Leeds.
I saw first-hand two things: that 99% of Asian people in Leeds and Bradford were every bit as disgusted by the bombers’ actions as anyone else was – more so, in fact; they were ashamed that the people who could do this came from their community and could hide behind their religion to justify it.
The second thing I saw was that 99% of non-Asian people did not turn against the Asian community; they actually got closer to them. There was a common acknowledgment that this atrocity was carried out by a very few maverick a*holes who were representative of nobody but themselves.
That was a heart-warming thing to see. Of course the BNP tried to use the tragedy as a recruiting tub to thump, but they failed. That was even more warming.
I live in Oslo now, in the middle of the east end (!) which has a big, big Somalian, Pakistani, Ugandan Asian and Arabic population.
When, a year ago, blonde, white Anders Breivik bombed the centre of our city, killing eight (and nearly killing me), then shot dead 69 kids from the Labour Party on Utoya Island because he didn’t like seeing brown faces in Norway, our whole neighbourhood was on the streets for a march to the cathedral the following weekend.
I kind of thought that that was what our club is all about.
Sorry for rambling but, really, the rank/colour/religion/ethnicity is but the guinea stamp.
The man’s the gowd, for a’ that.
Sorry. Sack the board. :)
Amazing There Has Been So Much Manipulation And Underplaying Of The Benghazi Story By Our MSM…
Not So On Russia Today…
Or Even On Al Jazeera…
Even Right Now…BBC2 Is Clinging To A Story That The US Ambassador Was Killed In A fire In A Building….
Or By A Projectile Grenade…
However….There Have Been Graphic Images On The Net For Hours…
Of The Dazed And Shocked Ambassador Being Manhandled By A Mob….
Seemingly After An Attack On His Vehicle
And Apparently Murdered Shortly Thereafter…
That Shocking Image Alone….
Will Result In This Last Twenty Four Hours Becoming A Watershed in World History….
OG
Thanks, I will now retire and dream a dream :>)
HH
theweegreenman
23:10 on
12 September, 2012
Saltires
For what it’s worth. Be it the recession, what’s happened at Ipox, I don’t know but I feel things are getting a lot more polarised and not just in Scotland.
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there is that danger and there are elements pushing that division –
that is why I feel we need to be brave – to stand up and be counted and participate in the wider community
HH
Bed time methinks.
Night all.
Jesus, was the only Son of God, the perfect supreme being.
If God does not love us, then why did he send his only Son
to be persecuted and die on the cross?
To prove that there is life beyond this life and to follow his
teachings.
Here is one for you TallyBhoy, back in the days when Jesus
was among us some people brought this woman to Jesus
claiming that she had committed adultery in other words
was a married woman who had a sexual affair with another
man and in those days that was a serious no-no in-fact if
one was found guilty of said crime they were stoned to death
& If Jesus did not give them the correct answer they would
be throwing stones @ Jesus as well
& You know what Jesus did, he took a stick and wrote on
the ground which translated into
‘He who has not sinned may cast the first stone’
After Jesus had written that they all dropped their stones
and walked away. & The woman said to Jesus, kind Sir
thank you very much for saving my life I’m for ever in-debt
to you and Jesus said to her these men who where going
to kill you have found no guilt and neither do I now go on
you way and sin no more.
We are all sinners and we have to all learn to forgive
like Jesus and God have forgiven us for our Sins
we should do likewise to fellow human beings that’s
what this life is all about the two Golden Rules are
Love Jesus/God with all our hearts our minds and our
Soul’s & the other Golden Rule is to love thy neighbour
as we love ourselves simple as
Paul
Where is the amazing linkie thing?
http://www.freep.com/article/20120911/FEATURES01/120911035/Tax-hike-cuts-tobacco-consumption?odyssey=nav%7Chead
Hope it doesn’t break the Blog..?
TSD
What do you mean by watershed?
Do you mean the green light for boots on the ground in the ME by the West?
ernie lynch
22:56 on
It wasn’t Thatcher using Scotland as a testing ground.
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My memory of it is that Tories were going to introduce it but Younger/Rifkind wanted it introduced in Scotland one year earlier than planned.
The revaluation of Domestic Rates had become a huge political issue.
The Labour Party supported reform but wanted to maintain what was the nearest thing to a land tax.
I remember Professor Arthur Midwinter explaining how rates were fairer, easier to collect and more cost effective.
Please, I beg of you, do not misconstrue this tuppenceworth as in any way showing any sympathy or concern for Thatcher !
It’s the Detroit free press, it must be true…..;)
Saltires
I understand where you are coming from.
Things need to change, A real step change. Things are going to hell in a hand basket at the moment IMO.
iki
You a Tory? :-)
A thought.
In order to avoid misunderstandings between bloggers,I would like to propose to our esteemed blogmeister,an upgrading to our current facilities.
To wit:
CELTIC SKYPE NEWS.
By Way Of Some Light Relief….
Here’s A Wee Poem About The Young SFTB….
Before He Grew Up To Be Big And Ugly..
And An ‘Apologist’ And ‘Useful Idiot’….
For All Manner Of Supremacist Totalitarian Ideologies….
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Teen Angst Of Setting Free The Cubs
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I don’t cause teachers trouble;
My marks have been okay..
I listen in my classes.
I’m in school every day.
My teachers think I’m average;
My parents think so too.
I wish I didn’t know that, though;
There’s lots I’d like to do.
I’d like to build a rocket;
I read a book on how.
Or start a stamp collection…
But no use trying now.
’Cause, since I found I’m average,
I’m smart enough you see
To know there’s nothing special
I should expect of me.
I’m part of that majority,
That hump part of the bell,
Who spends his life unnoticed
In an average kind of hell.
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(ThumbsUp?) ;-)
Ernie Lynch,
The bottom line here is either if one believes that there is a God
or Not people always come out with the word religion when in
actual fact it boils down to if one is a believer or a circular
& what is it, with Edinburgh Juries?
Iki, the two words you are looking for here is ‘Pol Tax’
& Yes Thatcher used Scotland as a testing ground
between 1987 & 1988.
Jag er…,
You obviously never followed the whole conversation, there was very little anti muslim sentiment, there was however severe condemnation of fundamentalist hate, which was applied to all religons, however it appears you deliberately misrepresented the discussion and therefore are welcome to dimiss the rest.
Oh dear
BRTH,
We are in your debt.
Thanks.
AND A BIG BIG HAPPY BIRTHDAY..
TO MY DEAR FRIEND….
MAGGIE McGILL@MAGGIE McGILL@
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Are Blog STD’s Contagious..?
..
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(ThumbsUp?) ;-)
Summa of SociallyTransmittedPlageristsCSC
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
23:10 on
12 September, 2012
They’re 5 miles high as the crow flies leavin’ vapour trails against a blood red sky Movin’ in from the East toward the West with Balaclava helmets over their heads, yes!
But if you think that Jesus Christ is coming Honey you’ve got another thing coming If he ever finds out who’s hi-jacked his name He’ll cut out his heart and turn in his grave
Islam is rising The Christians mobilising The world is on its elbows and knees It’s forgotten the message and worships the creeds
It’s war, she cried, It’s war, she cried, this is war Drop your possessions, all you simple folk You will fight them on the beaches in your underclothes You will thank the good lord for raising the union jack You’ll watch the ships sail out of harbour and the bodies come floating back
If the real Jesus Christ were to stand up today He’d be gunned down cold by the C.I.A. Oh, the lights that now burn brightest behind stained glass Will cast the darkest shadows upon the human heart But God didn’t build himself that throne God doesn’t live in Israel or Rome God doesn’t belong to the yankee dollar God doesn’t plant the bombs for Hezbollah God doesn’t even go to church And God won’t send us down to Allah to burn No, God will remind us what we already know That the human race is about to reap what it’s sown
The world is on its elbows and knees It’s forgotten the message and worships the creeds Armageddon days are here again
tHetHe
Awe Naw Not Enrico
So your a doom and gloom poet then, or did you lift those words from some
doom and gloom pretentious tune?
theweegreenman
23:35 on
12 September, 2012
iki
You a Tory? :-)
You made me laugh loudly :))
Kirsty Wark.
No time for the woman.
But good God, she ripped the Yorkshire polis guy into tiny wee bits. Raging she was.
I think it’s called journalism. We don’t get it much up here. Weel done.
Spent the last few hours on Liverpool forums. Eyes like dugs baws, very emotional indeed.
One question keeps coming back to me………
SY police colluded with their union, a local MP and a press agency to cover up and spin the story.
4 or 5 major payers, between (polis acting in their own self interest) politicians and media. They covered the truth for two decades, and then some. Many police still serving that were at hillsbough, none ever broke cover.
Wonder how many were Freemasons?
Justice for the 96. Peace.
dirtymac » fast forward to the G.O.D
23:28 on
12 September, 2012
Bed time methinks.
Night all.
Night DirtyMac
Sweet Dreams & God Bless
Akbw1888
ThE ThE
Awe Naw
Great band. A wee blast fae the past.
AKBW1888
23:38 on
12 September, 2012
Iki, the two words you are looking for here is ‘Pol Tax’
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Your two words seem to have been subject to Govt. cuts ….. I blame the Tores. :-)
The Legend Johnny Doyle
23:50 on
12 September, 2012
theweegreenman
23:35 on
12 September, 2012
iki
You a Tory? :-)
You made me laugh loudly :))
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You guys can laugh as much as you like but just you wait until somebody accuses you of being a Tory …… you’ll be laughing on the other side of your face, so you will.
Theweegreenman
Agreed.
n you sense the fear and the hatred Growing in the hearts of its population
And our youth, oh youth, are being seduced by the greedy hands of politics and half truths
The beaten generation, the beaten generation Reared on a diet of prejudice and mis-information The beaten generation, the beaten generation Open your eyes, open your imagination
We’re being sedated by the gasoline fumes and hypnotised by the satellites Into believing what is good and what is right
You may be worshipping the temples of mammon Or lost in the prisons of religion But can you still walk back to happiness When you’ve nowhere left to run?
Andif they send in the special police To deliver us from liberty and keep us from peace
Then won’t the words sit ill upon their tongues when they tell us justice is being done and that freedom lives in the barrels of a warm gun
HH
When you cast your eyes upon the skylines Of this once proud nation Can you sense the fear and the hatred Growing in the hearts of its population
HH
iki
Apologies :-)
Good night all.
God Bless The Glasgow Celtic
Iki, your damn tooting she was not called Thatcher the snatcher for nothing.
The Legend Johnny Doyle
23:09 on
12 September, 2012
Could it be that high fuel prices are connected to a drop in tobacco sales that because of a government drive to encourage the nation to stop smoking because it was costing the NHS a fortune?
They need something to Tax since the Dodgers won’t pay!
The Legend JD
The Government just use the “Tobacco is costing the NHS a fortune excuse line”
Do you think that’s going to stop people from smoking?
The answer to that is No, no chance.
It’s another way to extortionate more money out of people via Tax.
this politician was emailing me trying to keep me in their good books
for future votes.
When I shinned said politician about the point that how come a
forty gram pouch of tobacco in Belgium only cost’s £4.50p as
apposed to £14.25p in this Country they soon shot the crow.
My late Father was right what he said about them, they are all
the same and just in said business for themselves
Iki
My mum used to say that: “if i don’t stop smiling that she would wipe the smile to the other side of my face”?
I never really understood that one but have always smiled on the left side of my face. _..)
The WeeGreenMan….
No Boots On The Ground In The ME…
Just A Recognition That East Is East
West Is West…
And A Gradual….But Steady…
Drawing Apart …Is The Best Option…
We DO NOT Need Their Oil & Gas….
There Are Abundant Supplies ,Under Utilised ….Or Newly Discovered In The Non-Islamic World…
USA Gets Only 10% Of Its Oil From The ME…
It Could Easily Be Self-Sufficient In Oil…
It Has HUGE Newly Discovered Reserves Of Natural Gas…
And The Biggest Oil Shale Deposits In The World…
The US Already Sources 55% Of Its Oil Requirements From Its Own Existing Oil Fields…
Major New Fields Have Been Discovered All Over Africa….Sierra Leone ,South Sudan,Angola,Uganda,Kenya, And Mozambique..
Canada Currently Supplies 30% Of US Oil Needs …And Could Easily Supply Double
Israel And Cyprus Will Be A Major Source Of Gas Exports To Europe…
After Discovery Of Major Offshore Gasfields….
And Israel Has Also Been Discovered To Have The Second Largest Shale Oil Deposits In The World….After N. America
Brazil Has Major Off-Shore Fields That Have Yet To Come On Line….
And We Have Enough High-Grade Coal To Last Us For Centuries…
Forget This ‘Myth’ About Peak Oil….
We Are Awash With Gas & Oil….
We Should Turn Our Backs On The ME (& Pakistan)
Let Them Run Their Camels On Five-Star
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Both Kipling And Churchill Defined The Problem Islam Presented To The West..
More Than A Hundred Years Ago..
“Those Who Don’t Know History Are Destined To Repeat It” (Edmund Burke)