The hours immediately after the First Tier Tribunal reports on Rangers use of Employee Benefits Trusts, which the BBC discovered is due this month, to loan money (!) to staff what happens at Hampden will be most interesting. SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie, as a director, was legally responsible for Rangers when they started using EBTs and benefited from one himself but he has refused to resign and the SFA have declined to put him on gardening leave, pending a public investigation.
Instead, SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, told press the Association had investigated Ogilvie’s contribution to the matter and found he had no case to answer, despite widespread scepticism that any investigation whatsoever was held into the president’s involvement in the issue.
If, despite protests from former Rangers directors that the club acted properly at all times, the FTT upholds the position of HMRC, that Rangers incorrectly failed to pay £94m tax, Ogilvie will surely walk (away), as the SFA will have to instigate disciplinary proceedings on the club which inherited Rangers membership, for deeds done while the president was in an executive position at Ibrox.
Even our new friend Charles Green would find it unpalatable that a man responsible for the subsequent penalty remains in charge of the body imposing the penalty. We’ve said “Ogilvie will surely walk” before, of course, only to witness ever-higher standards of brass neck, but if he pauses for an hour before resigning, let it be to give those of us on the outside of the game what is needed, a full and independent inquiry into the game, how it is administered and controlled. Before the year is out we are likely to learn that our game was violated for more than a decade by people at the very top. A charlatan was expelled from the game earlier this year while the owner of a new club, without financial track record, is trying to raise millions from fans.
In any other European country, even Italy, the inquiry would already be under way.
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The Belgian team are full of Chuck Green’s targets – remember them?
They are all ” no very good IMO ” apart form the goalkeeper, what system are we playing it looks like under 6s at school, everyone run after the ball…..
Don’t know how it got H-T 0-0 but I’m glad…draw H-T, Belgium F-T, 16/5.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
I hope Craig Whyte has some heavy muscle to protect him from what lies ahead. Astounding stuff, if true, and Phil has got much more right than wrong so far.
0 – 3 England then innit
Hope Brenden disnae win it no bad baker but to arrogant with it and can’t take criticism
Hope young James far the Shetlands does it!
SUETCSC
sftb
If Phil’s predicitons come to pass the Sevconians will be hurling their own dung at the moon. Again.
Look forward to it.
:0)
SwanseaBhoy
Ten Men Won The League
at 20:42
Don’t get me wrong. Where do you get all this info from?
wegreenman
It’s on in my kitchen and some Scots boy just announced they were doing a Union Jack cake.
Still want him to win?
I hope every word of Phil’s blog is true.
It really would be comedy season with that little lot.
Pat’s sounding like a master tactician I’m surprised he hasn’t applied for the job.
Zbyszek
ITV reporters trackside with FA officials
They are now talking about 1500 tomorrow!
BBCBMcLauchlin @BBCBMcLauchlin
BBC Scotland learn Hearts had transfer ban imposed after salaries were late last month. Issue will be discussed again by SPL board on Monday
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Tin Tin,Hercule Poirot and Dr. Evil all comming on in the second half for Belgium
Ten Men Won The League
at 20:42
Don’t you think it’s FIFA officials who decide?
Belgium bring on Hazzard; Scotland bring on Mackie.
Says it all.
Commons off
SFTB
It’s not oor James that done that cake! That was obviously some deluded Sevcovian!
AtoraAtoraAtoraCSC
SFTB – bigot! It’s Radio Scotland’s Tom Morton’s son!
T4
theweegreenman
have they openned their Mary Baker packets yet?
Glad Commons is off, we need him fit for our games.
NameNoFit @LeanderOnFOX
Full-time: Netherlands 4-1 Romania. Easy-peasy. Terrible reffing by Craig Thompson of Scotland.
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Belgium hit the bar. Hope Commons ain’t injured?!
T4
gene’s a bhoys name
PACKETS! ya heathen ye’ ;-)
SFTB
I’m watching it on sky plus!
He’s making a butchers apron cake! Hells Bells man!
BeroCSC
Poland/England tomorrow at 1600
Engerland match postponed till 4pm tomorrow (UK time)
Hunskelper Darren O Dea scores in Republics 4-1 win.
Poland v England tomorrow at 17:00 Warsaw time.
Ernie @ 15.49,
Scotland does suffer from bigotry & sectarianism, as well as the masons & foul weather. I tried to remind readers that our compatriots have shown this year that they aren’t as bad as some would make them out to be. You – for whatever reason – are one of those who makes the worst of them.
Obviously, England doesn’t suffer so much from Orange bigotry as Scotland: it’s at least arguable that it suffers more from Dawkins-esque bigotry as shown by Caitlin Moran, Jeremy Paxman & others. England is the country that drove out James VII & II because he was openly a Catholic, then followed that up with an Act of Parliament barring Catholics from the throne: England is also the country whose politicians stirred up anti-Catholic hatred a century ago in their campaign against Home Rule, inflaming the situation in Scotland and Ireland. It was also due to the United Kingdom that the West of Scotland became infiltrated by bigots from Norn Iron. Scotland’s bigotry is at the very least due in part to the Union.
You were kind enough to advise me to “go figure”. Your advice was unnecessary as I’d done my figuring: if you took it yourself, maybe you’d have been able to answer my last comment on your posts.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-18175731
HH
SUETCSC
SwanseaBhoy
20:45 on 16 October, 2012
sftb
If Phil’s predicitons come to pass the Sevconians will be hurling their own dung at the moon. Again.
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Surely they will do something out of the ordinary instead?
theweegreenman
He’s making a butchers apron cake! Hells Bells man
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well it is the great british bake off – but you wouldn’t get it in a packet
Strange country Poland is. When +34 C they close the roof and play against Greece, when heavy rain in October they open the roof.
4-0 to Germany against Sweden now. Lustig not having a great game, 3 of the goals have been scored down the left channel.
Dutch journo.
@LeanderOnFOX: Full-time: Netherlands 4-1 Romania. Easy-peasy. Terrible reffing by Craig Thompson of Scotland.
I hope Phil is spot on with his weather forecast and that Hurricane Craigie is on its way.
It’s been a wee bit too calm recently
Glasgow’s Green & Whyte – what’s not to like
;o)
If Scotland win tonight the headline tomorrow should be:
“Brussels sprouts resurrection”
I’ll get me coat…