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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50 shades….
prayer for him and his loved ones
Don’t ken if its been discussed but I see stv have an article on us being cleared over Juninho’s ebt.
The huns’ll love that
Ahahahahaha
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
09:28 on
13 September, 2012
If that culture(in Scotland) can ever be changed,then now is the time.
Personally,I don`t hold out too much hope.
Hope I`m proved wrong.
ItaliaBhoy
09:18 on
13 September, 2012
Jack Straw opens can of worms this morning, with his comments that the Thatcher administration allowed SYP to act with impunity at Hillsborough- as the government owed the force a big debt after its partisan policing of the miners’ strike only five years beforehand.
This is a long-held belief on Merseyside, but seldom publicly aired. Dark, dark days.
Many of us outside of Merseyside have no difficulty in subscribing to above belief.
As I observed here yesterday. She was quite happy to have the police collude with Murdoch at Wapping
She is the same woman, whom if she had wished, could have found a formula of words, that would have brought an earlier end to the hunger strikes. Rather she chose to mindlessly parrot the slogan of ‘A crime, is a crime, is a crime’.
Mind you her views on crime and criminals altered somewhat when it came to her murdering pal Pinochet.
An unapologetic, if somewhat Un Christian observation.
Hell cannot possibly be full until she and her mate Rupe share a single end in it.
,acjay…,
I’m hoping when all is exposed the choice will be stark, last chance saloon IMO.
Either the majority accept we are not the problem or they continue the status quo.
50 shades- condolences on your sad loss
Whenever the villains of history are being discussed the U.S gets off far too lightly, especially for its treatment of the indigenous peoples.
I’m reading ‘Blood and Thunder’ just now, which deals with how the Navajo were dealt with in what is now New Mexico and Arizona.
dbbia
Can you tell me if the Embrocation have a cover version of Jean Michel Jarre’s classic Oxygene?
I’ve just heard it for the first time in years on my tea break and I’m looking for a Timmed up version ;)
Anyone got any injury updates for the team?
dbbia,
not read myself and have no intention much too dry for me, but that geezers memoirs that wrote huckleberry fin is very critical
Ole Johnny- very gallant of you to uphold Catriona’s honour.
Your chivalry [and that of Eurochamps67 earlier on] is in the finest traditions of gentlemanly etiquette.
bought for her in doors, greedy reader, and she can only dip in and out, got it last year and its still no finished.
Canalamar- it’s written by Hampton Sides, and the style is very readable. HE wrote ‘Hellhound on his Trail’ about the MLK assassination, which is a genuine page-turner.
THere’s another book called ‘Glencoe and the Indians’ , about what happened to the Highlanders who escaped to the New World after GLlencoe only to find themselves suffering another form of ethnic cleansing through their involvement with the Indians.
Even today Scottish surnames are not uncommon amongst Native American people.
Lennon N Mcmjallby- wee Charlotte Rampling blushes like a schoolgirl whenver the topic of ole Dick and his vocoder gets mentioned.
dbbia,
I was talking about Mark Twain’s memoirs, the reason to the 100 year delay to publish was his criticism of the policies of the time.
Gordon ‘bald eagle’ Smith
Okay.Okay.
I know it`s childish and it really shouldn`t,but I must confess that this pleases me.
BBC Scotland has also seen evidence, which was submitted to the courts, suggesting that 53 Rangers players and staff had side-letters giving undertakings to fund their sub-trusts with cash.
According to the Scottish Football Association’s registration rules, payments received by a player solely relating to his playing activities must be fully recorded and declared, otherwise the player has been improperly registered.
Campbell ‘silent bear’ Ogilvie
DBBIA
Seeing Cat in ‘real life’ was a highlight for me of a recent trip to Ikea. The highlights for JuneCarterClash were apparently the meatballs and a big bag of tea lights.
Just dropped in to say
50 shades of green
______________________________
Thoughts Prayers and Deepest Sympathy
Sorry pal.
God Bless
away back to reading the blog
laters..
Celtic Launch Overseas Season Ticket
By: Newsroom Staff on 13 Sep, 2012 08:14
CELTIC Football Club is delighted to launch our first ever Overseas Season Ticket in our 125th anniversary year, in conjunction with the Celtic Charity Fund.
Celtic is a truly global club and we want every supporter to have a chance to play their part in this celebratory year.
The Overseas Season Ticket is only available to supporters living outside the UK and Ireland and every seat purchased will provide underprivileged families with the opportunity to attend matches at Celtic Park and experience the excitement first-hand.
As an Overseas Season Ticket holder you will be able to use your seat at any four home SPL matches of your choice during the 2012/13 season.
This ensures that when you are in the position to visit Celtic Park personally, you too can indulge your passion here at Paradise.
The unique benefits of being and Overseas Season Ticket holder include:
+ A season ticket with a special overseas discount applied*
+ A personalised Certificate detailing your seat and your contribution to the Celtic Charity Fund.
+ Complimentary Celtic TV subscription until May 31, 2013.
+ A personalised name plaque on your seat at Celtic Park for season 2012/13.
+ Celtic Charity Fund updates with stories relation to those underprivileged groups who have benefited from the use of your own seat and others throughout the season.
This is an opportunity for every Celtic supporter living overseas to play a unique part in our 125th anniversary. You can support the club and simultaneously support the Celtic Charity Fund in keeping with the spirit in which the club was founded.
Do you remember your first Celtic game? Click HERE
* The price of the overseas season ticket is £300, which is a significant saving on the normal price of £466! Season tickets will be located in areas 412/413 of the north stand upper tier.
HOW TO PURCHASE YOUR OVERSEAS SEASON TICKET
There are various ways in which you can purchase your season ticket:
Download the Overseas Ticket Application Form HERE and return to overseasseasonticket@celticfc.co.uk
Call the Ticket Office on +44 871 226 1888, option 1, option 2**
Register your interest at http://www.celticfc.net/tickets_season_register and we will be in touch!
HOW TO USE YOUR OVERSEAS SEASON TICKET
You will have the opportunity to use your seat a maximum of four times per season.
To use your own seat, please complete the Overseas Ticket Application and return it to overseasseasonticket@celticfc.co.uk no later than four weeks before the match date.
** Calls cost up to 10p per minute, telecoms provider dependant. Mobile and other provider charges may vary.
An extract from Barcabhoy’s post yesterday:
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Thanks to the efforts of RTC, CQN and other excellent blogs, , the public know that the MSM are not the source of truthful information and insight with regards to Rangers.
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I think it goes without saying that the Hillsborough cover-up would have not have happened had blogs like these been around at the time.
Trad88,
looks like the thing BRT&H was talking about last week
Meatballs? Big bag of tea lights?
-it sounds like you’ve got the makin’s of big ole burnin’ ring of fire.
theweegreenman:
They were terrible and there are so many of them from that part of the world too. They were posted to remind a ubiquitous bigot/racist who pontificates on here and who appears to delight in snydeing the adopted countries of others, that his country has previous, bad, bad, previous and despicable and present shames too.
There were/are horrible atrocities committed in every country on this earth and no nationality, nor demographic, escapes guilt either.
Embdy seen John Fleck?
T.G.A.O.T.U.
Means The great Architect of The Universe (in Masonic Speech)
in reference to A. Johnsons (surrender no) rant to the panel
“finally, I would hope that the panel which has been charged with
investigating Rangers(IL) activities will draw a large circle around
a UNIVERSE of relavent reference points that should be considered in
assesing the magnitude of the allegations
There are buzzwords in this peculiar society to recognise if you are a
brother or not , (magnitude, T.G.A.O.T.U. , large circle ,reference points (the
compass)
His rant goes on
The reality of the situation is that sir David Murray who was intimately
involved in the ARCHITECTURE of these efforts
This is a call to alert any brothers that may be on the panel
I was under the impression that the Freemasons where an
hounarable ,charity giving honest , truthfull ,moral society ?
Hugh ‘many coyotes’ Dallas
kitalba
10:33 on
13 September, 2012
Kit
:-)
I thought that was your motivation.
Morning Hoops. Just back from a long trip to China. Glad to be home.
Sincere condolences to all who have lost loved ones in recent weeks.
Requiescant in pace.
Big nose, eyes to close together, and a bright pink face……Sorry this is not a new find, been witnessed all around Govan for years.
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/monkey-species-discovered-africa-015119021.html
traditionalist88
10:26 on 13 September, 2012
They seem to have forgotten about the overseas 10-match package that was certainly in place around 98/99 when I worked in the T/O. It guaranteed a seat at up to 10 SPL matches, not necessarily the same seat but I know the girl that dealt with them used to try and keep folk in the same place. We sold quite a few as well. Guys from as far as Sydney, San Francisco and Vancouver had them as well as those closer to home. Maybe a guy in NZ too now that I think back.
Wullie ‘lone wolf’ Collum
Hugh “Dances with Hyenas” Dallas.
Charlie ‘dances with wolves’ Green
Hi Folks
2 tickets, together and unrestricted in Lisbon Lions Upper for CL game v Benfica for auction by Glasgow the Caring City. Totally genuine and proceeds to great causes. Current bid is less than face value, save yourself the hassle and get in there!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/271058488193
HH
BK
Darryl ‘hurting bear’ Broadfoot
I like the idea of the overseas season tickets and, unless I have misread the earlier communications, that our very own Auldheid had a lot to do with it.
Chapeau.