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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Che
Its paper plates he uses
Actually feel sorry for Hutton.
What the Falkirk is a player who has not played 1 single minute of club football this season starting every game for Scotland.
Levien man enough to resign? This plonker said we could easily win every game in the group!!!
Che – a wee place in Lenzie….they were crying out for a wash!
T4
Pat nevin says Darren fletcher would get a game for Belgium !!!! Whit as???? MASCOT?
Izzy’s Honduras 4-0 up on Canada and heading for the top of their WC group
C’mon bhoys we can still qualify don’t throw in the towel yet.
SOAL – paper plates? You’re a genius!
What a comeback for Sweden, but is that a bad result for ROI?
T4
18pts from next 6 games – why not
hen1rik
21:44 on 16 October, 2012
Can I have some of what you’re drinking ….LOL
sixteen roads to golgotha
They can’t close the roof when it’s raining. The roof closes after 40 minutes from the start. They can dry the pitch in one hour.
BTW, it’s not raining now outside.
T4
Just asked mrs Che if she fancied a wee run to Asda with me,
“What for?”
“Big Phil has just announced we should stock up on ice cream n jelly this week…… again” says I
Going by the look I’m heading to rob Royston myself.
Going by the same look, the don’t come near me flannelette nightie will be on as we’ll.
That Phil mcg has a lot to answer for.
Zbyszek
Sitting in Canada with Marcin from Sanok.
Celtic supporter I met in a pub.
Teuchter ar la
celtic should steer clear of scottish players not brought through our own system, they arent taught to play football the right way. macgregor apart none of them are good enough footballers.
Why isn’t Hutton getting a game at club level? Because Paul Lambert knows more about football than Craig Levein.
Just got to say what an amazing second half of Sweden!! That Zlatan is some player and lustig much better in second. Goodnight, hope my voice is ok in the morning
who should say to Craig Levein “you should stand down for the good of the game”; Stewart Regan or Campbell Ogilvie?
Retweeted by Joliet Jake
McGinn’s goal for N Ireland was a peach.
Che – just have to settle for yer just desserts! Sounds like an interesting week ahead….!
:-))))
T4
rgds the digs at Kenny Miller. no one should be any doubt he’s passed it now.
In saying that it’s a pity we didnt keep him at his peak. when lawell sold him against the wishes of strachan and despite the pleas from Burns (RIP) it was the worst mistake Celtic ever made in recent history.
the dimension added to celtic’s play with millers pace was extraordinary. the opposition were stretched in a manner only craig bellamy managerd in recent times. without Millers dimension to our play strachans team was a busted flush.
selling miller, then not replacing him with a player that could give us that dimension of play, cost us three championships.
most supporters wont agree. 99% of fans arent qualified in the game and dont know any better.
Sheikyerbooty – phils blog and now bbc reporting leaked emails. Thought everyone would know by now- its been a whole hour!
Oh that table puts a smile on my face
No international football till next march!
Thank the lors
67heaven … i am neil lennon..!!.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
21:46 on
16 October, 2012
hen1rik
21:44 on 16 October, 2012
Can I have some of what you’re drinking ….LOL
But Alan Mcgregor just said it aswell.
Che
Flannelette nighties do it for me.
Foxy_1888
Funniest post of the night
VP
Your one sick man :-)
Foxy_1888
Please tell me you’re joking!
67 Heaven
Hi amigo. Hope you’re well. He’s on a cruise down around the Canary Isles.
RT
What’s on BBC?
Cannae see anything.
SwanseaBhoy
There are 53 European Teams taking part in World Cup qualifying. Of those who have, like Scotland, played 4 games here is a list of those ones with a worse record than Scotland.
Kazakhstan
Andorra
Luxembourg
Leichtenstein
teuchter ár lá
Greetings to Marcin, Celtic and Stal Sanok supporter. They knocked back my Legia Warsaw from Cup in 2006.
RobertTressell
BBC not reporting it the post earlier was from May 2012 I think.
Spain concede an equaliser to France in the last minute.
1-1.
Jools on Beeb2.
T4
trapp still has to go
i think he will
i know a fella that was in the same corporate box as dennis o brien for the germany game
after the match people were asking o brien for his views and he said enough was enough
The Comfortable Collective @ 22.00
Somebody needs to show Levein those stats………then the door.
Iran 1 – 0 Korea Republic
Great atmosphere at the game.
No, I’m not joking.
I’ve explained the reasons why.
Selling Miller, nearing his peak, then not replacing him with a player whom could add the same dimension to our play, was the start of ruin for Strachans team. It was the worst mistake in Celtic’s recent history. It cost us three championships.
Chick Hun said WGS would take the job….