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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Calm Down everyone , Kenny Millers coming on…
K miller coming on. We’re gonna win 3-2 ;-)
Scotland will be bottom of the group at the close of play tonight.
Levein must go
Zbyszek
If I’m going through a door into a bar with a mate I bend down to tie my shoelace to let him get to the bar first. Even when I wear shoes without laces:o)
roberttressell
is this what u mean
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/hurricane-craigie-set-to-hit-ibrox/
1h KG @annagry2000
@alextomo Hearing Craig Whyte is going to break cover this week with allegations against Duff & Phelps. Any chance of contacting him?
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@annagry2000 called y’day and left msg
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@alextomo Good man Alex. Let us know what he says once you’ve spoken with him.
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@annagry2000 of course – been at him for months
Gordon_J : I was listening to Clyde while doing the dishes this evening…..they’ve started the Sir Walter resurrection already. Quelle suprise!
He will be too busy with a number of court cases, so WGS should be a shooty-in.
T4
The Belgians don’t have a Kenny Miller….
Levein bare faced liar “I have never seen such bad decisions going against my team”
Last week v Wales…..did he forget all about the sinister minister at ipox?
Niall McGinn scores Norn Iron 1Portugal 0
Germany 4 Sweden 3, even more interesting.
kenny dalglish as scotland manager 4 me
or gordon strachan
MR Z
U have me in stitches!!!
:-)))
MWD
How can someone as crap as Miller get over 60 caps and somebody like Bobby Lennox get so few. No answers required!
EDB – don’t you slag off Dick Byrne ever again…!! :-)
T4
Harry Rednapp for me
Did I catch sight of a Strachan banner in the crowd there? What did it say?
Germany 4-3 now v Sweden
BBB
Bring Back Bertie
Gene’s a Bhoys name
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16 October, 2012
Harry Rednapp for me
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Good call :)))
Gretnabhoy
In fairness Lemon had more folk to compete with to get into the team, Miller didn’t and Miller played for more clubs than Stringfellow.
Bobby Lennox played in the era of Law, Wallace, Gilzean, St John etc
Tartan Army man in my work. Wants “Walter” back.
But he abandoned the country in the middle of a campaign says I.
You’re just a bitter Tim, he’s a great manger, says he.
astounded of forehead…
Sammi plays full 90mins for Greece in their 1-0 win in Slovakia
Kompany? Poor man’s Caldwell….
What the hell are guys like Kenny black and Des mcKeown invloved at this level of football for.
Fitba Pygmies
Thats what happens when you choose an international manager on the criteria of-
A. Weakening a strong club side.
B. Said manager wasnt afraid to speak about cheating.
C. Protecting huns.
Disband the SFA,get a committee of patriotic Geordies to administer our game as it will probably be run better.
1. WGS
2. Pep Guardiola
3. King Kenny
4. Wanderley Luxemburgo
5. Rinus Michels
But only if Sally isn’t available…
Billy the Tax Fiddler on top form for BBC tonight. Kenny Miller, McGregor and Hutton lovefest…..
Why are we paying a license ?
Greece win 1-0
eldiegobhoy
:-)
tttt
Doing the dishes? Does that mean throwing them into a dishwasher:o)
TMWTL
All my mates went down to Bratislava to watch that – more fool them.
Snake …and you explanation for the few caps Jimmy J got?
Scotland fans unfurl banner inside stadium in Brussels: “Strachan SOS”
ItaliaBhoy
Dont cast your pearls before swine,
Just leave him to rant and SMILE & WAVE just SMILE & WAVE
TTTT
EDB
Or is he geein the dishes a doin?
MikeyBhoy
Davy Murray poor man’s company
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tramp_smoking_cigar_with_cane_over_arm_-_restoration.jpg
Billy Dodds – “I think Craig Levein is the man – he just hasn’t had the results” Dearie me!