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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Kitalba
The holocaust resulted in the death of over 1 million Jews.
White man’s arrival to the New World resulted in 59 millions deaths. 59 million!
BlantyreKev
Here’s me thinking big Ross had changed his allegiance
Ally”who ate all the buffalo” mcoist
On the subject of freemasonry, how much influence did this secret society have on South Yorkshire Police’s ability to cover up its failings at Hillsborough for so long and to tell lie after lie? Which high-up members of the masons colluded in this cover-up? Why do these people think they are above the law?
Mr South Of Tunis….@09:32..
What A Precious Wee Soul You Are..!!
I Notice That You Didn’t Invite Desmond Tutu Or The Dalai Lama….
Along To Yer Wee Breakfast Chat Wi’ Yer Chums ,At Casa Blanca….
The ‘Twelve-Minute Trailer’ For A Purported Full Length Film,”The Innocence Of Muslims” ?
Little Different From The Content Of Trailers For “The Life Of Brian”…
Back In The Day….
Perhaps The Undue ‘Sensitivity’ Over The Clip Comes From Recognition That It May Come Too Close To Revealing ‘Home Truths’ About ‘The Religion Of Peace’…?
About Which Gullible Marshmallow Westerners Remain Blissfully Ignorant..?
Compare And Contrast To The Experience Of Christians In This Country….
Being Subjected To The Revolting Spectacle Of “Jerry Springer :The Opera”
Being Broadcast On BBC2, In Prime Time,Back In 2007….
A Production Inadvertently Funded By The Licence Fee Payers Of Our Overwhelmingly Christian Country….
No Building Set On Fire…
No-one’s Life Threatened….
Not A Single Hamster Harmed…
We Live In A Pristine,Technologically Brilliant Western Civilisation….
So We Pay A Certain Price For Having Freedom Of Speech In OUR COUNTRY..
If Someone Doesn’t Like It….
They Can Always Toddle Off Somewhere Else..
Cuba Or Venezuela..??
Perhaps To One Of The 57 Countries Comprising The ‘Organisation Of Islamic Co-operation’..?
If These Societies Are More To Their Taste
Rest Assured….
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‘Whatever Teeters Yer Titter………. .’
‘Whatever Blows Wind Up Yer Skirt,’
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You Are Clearly Not ‘Cut From The Same Cloth’….
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The Hillsborough disaster and the subsequent cover-up scandal was something that could only have happened under a government led by someone like Thatcher.
Thatcher’s far-right view of the world allowed those with similar views to go unchecked.
The decent police officers –and let us not forget that there are many of them – were sidelined by those like Thatcher who believed there was no such thing as society.
The police forces who took part in smashing the miner’s strike took their cue from Thatcher’s nodding approval. The press did likewise.
The abuse of legislation that stopped miners from travelling outwith their local areas, and other excesses were widespread, and this allowed police officers to think they were above the law.
Some police officers in Scotland were emboldened by the actions of their English counterparts and there is no doubt in my mind that the Mounted Policemen who charged down Janefield Street that Wednesday night in 1985 were simply copying what their counterparts in Yorkshire had done one year earlier at the Orgreave Coking Plant.
IIRC the actions of the old board were fair and Desmond White came out publicly to denounce the police and offer to help pay for legal representation for injured Celtic fans.
The police officers who mishandled the crowd control at Hillsborough then blamed the victims for the tragedy took their cue from Thatcher, just like those who charged their horses at Orgreave and Janefield Street did.
It must be unarguable now that there should be an independent process of investigating complaints against the police.
Neil ‘thunder on the plain’ Lennon
Just watching The Clash live in Munich circa late 77, AWESOME!!!
Big Nan
The problem that I see with an independent police review is exactly as TimBuoy was posting about earlier with the AJ speech.
The masons would be involved in it at some level.
Big Nan,
one condition, independent panel members must not be involved in any secret societies.
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Laughing my head off at the masonic message in AJ’s rant. Stupid huns should realise that rubbish is no longer secret.
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celtic *o* lennon – what kind of glasses have you got?!
Big Nan
Totally agree with every word you say. I remember there was a journalist investigating the Belgrano atrocity during the Falklands ‘war’, a woman (can’t remember her name) who threatened to expose the cover up and she ended up dying in a car crash. Someone had basically run her off the road and her car landed in a ditch when she died from the injuries inflicted on her.
Thatcher is an evil woman who has blood on her hands.
HH
Bomber “Talking Bull” Brown: (Sioux: yabelter yulnotakme, literally meaning ‘man who sleeps in skip’).
new article posted.
TET,
I dont think they are the same, but their views are very similar.
We are often portrayed as paranoid with chips on our shoulders in some quarters, and in others we are demonised because of a perceived ‘Timmy conspiracy’ and ‘The unseen Fenian Hand’ which is, allegedly, running the country.
Every level of society from top to bottom has been infiltrated by Opus Dei, the Jesuits and other nefarious secret Catholic societies.
However it would appear that ‘we’ have failed to infiltrate the upper echelons of the bodies ‘running’ Scottish football (into the ground!). For God’s sake Peter – get your act together!
HH!!
As I see it regarding the criminal activity by the authorites after Hillsborough
1. Anyone who changed their statement, encouraged others to change their statement or knew it was going on and did nothing should be prosecuted and if convicted, jailed.
2. Anyone convicted should (if still serving) be sacked and loose all pension rights and if they have retired loose all pension rights and ne made to pay back any money already taken in pension rights. If they have to sell their homes, tough!
3. For those who have since died, their estates should be sued for the money.
4. All those involved in the cover up who have had honours should have them stripped retrospectivly
Mike “two dugs shaggin” McCurry”
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slainte
tony
Anyone interested in Hillsborough should read this.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/everyone-in-football-has-waited-too-long-for-the-lies-to-be-exposed-8131085.html
theweegreenman
10:57 on
13 September, 2012
Kitalba
The holocaust resulted in the death of over 1 million Jews.
White man’s arrival to the New World resulted in 59 millions deaths. 59 million!
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Charles “Crazy Mutt” Green: (Lakota dialect: literally means “He’s aff eez nut like a dug wae ra rabies!”).
With a name in his tribe, Lakota: Thikasasowsturd, that literally means “Crazy-like-a-diseased-dog”, this Native Yorkshireman was actually born with the name: Cha-O-Ha Ha Ha meaning in Lakotan, “One who laughs at the Rain”, and he was often called Baldy due to his lack of hair. In the Great Hun War of 2012, Crazy Mutt led a combined group of nearly 1,500 Union and vanguard bears in a surprise march against Neil Doncaster’s forces at the Massacre of the Big Hampden Car Park. Doncaster’s force of two soon to be retired security guards, one with sciatica and the other with mild gout, alongside Big Peter the Janny, was nothing more than the name suggests. The Massacre was stopped with the arrival of many Strathclyde police, and despite the various casualties to staff, Doncaster managed to escape out a back door with only mild incontinence dispersed onto his suit trousers. The arrival of police did prevent Crazy Mutt and his forces from reaching Stewart “Mouseman” Regan, who had also been targeted in the march to the Big Hampden Car Park- Regan was later heard to say “I understand why Crazy Mutt wants to butcher me…I don’t think there is anything wrong with organizing a dangerous mob of drunken psychopaths.” Doncaster though is thought to be recuperating somewhere in rural Norfolk. Crazy Mutt Green said on the stairs of Hampden: “I will continue to oppose any and all punishments from any footballing body either here in Scotland or elsewhere, for I am the Great Chief of the Hun called Crazy Mutt.” And with that many of his insane tribe howled and hollered like sick dogs with their war paint, dead animals tied their shellsuits in a sea of buckfast bottles and sovvy rings held high in salute to their chav Chieftan.