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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Mr Z
Don’t you be going slagging off Poland or Zybzeck will be on your case.
:-)
MWD
Breaking news guys – brown smelly stuff hitting fan once more at Sevcoville/ Ibrox.
We knew it was a matter of time.
How many times can one club die? Once you say? Probably. But it’ll be fun watching the newco go the same way.
RFCUnited of Glasgow anyone?
Ha ha hahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
sixtaeseven – it’s started. BBC has it on their webpage. someone posted link a few pages back.
Our Hero has returned having slayed moma dragon he is coming back to finish off her offspring.
I demand a statue in front of Celtic Park NOW to the Celtic folk hero that is Craig ‘Unseen Hand’ Whyte
Stick or Twist?
Not Levein, me continuing to watch this mince.
I predict cqn meltdown within 24 hours……….
bye bye sevco……………..
Sweden have pulled two quick goals back. Interesting.
Robert t
‘Turd Lanorc?’
Lustig scores for Sweden
4-2 Germany
Lustig misses a sitter that would have given Sweden a third.
ooops
1-0 Belgium
Did not think it could last.
RobertTressell
How many times can one club die?
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Every week will do me.
Game over for Scotland
1-0 Belgium
Lustig scores for sweden
Roberttressell
EXPAND!!!
MWD
RobertTressell
21:10 on
16 October, 2012
I predict cqn meltdown within 24 hours……….
bye bye sevco……………..
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eh
what u talkin about
Cowdenbeath beckons for Latrene
Schittland Schittland
Wha’s like us ?
No bad for a centre half …
Twist…
Night everyone, God Bless wee Oscar.
2-0
oops again
what a goal
kompany
Game ova taxi fer levine
Veencant Kompanee….whit?!
2-0 Now
Game over if it wasn’t already before
Levein get tae PLEASE
roberttressell
21:10 on
16 October, 2012
I predict cqn meltdown within 24 hours……….
bye bye sevco……………..
Paul better make sure the server can handle it lol.
Taxi for Levein
MWD
I blame so called Polish hospitality. Hot for Greece, rain for England.
Have you not seen two Poles going through one door in the same time ?
-Yes please, you first.
No, you are welcome, you first.
– Oh, no, no , you first.
they keep that coming until first hits the other. The one who survives, going through the door first.
Good goal, but once again could the keeper have done better
McGregor should have saved that.
Time for Sally to come to the rescue of his country.
The end for Levein. Even by modern Scottish standards, a lamentable reign.
Cant get enough of your LOVE
Tomorrow’s headline: Bring back Walter Smith …
If Steven Fletcher is worth £14 mil,so am i.
Levein – I blame Kafflik schools