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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!!bada bing!!
23:41 on 16 October, 2012
LoL……….ll
Tommy is here
http://www.spreaker.com/user/glasgow-radio-online/octopus_ticketus_zeus_sevco_scam?autoplay=1
tommy glasgow@tommyinglasgow
Come and listen to me LIVE on @spreaker http://www.spreaker.com/user/glasgow-radio-online/octopus_ticketus_zeus_sevco_scam?autoplay=1 …
TET
France were all over them in last 20mins but couldn’t put ball in net.
Spain try to run down clock (have corner but lose possession) – Ribbery delivers a peach of a cross and it’s 1-1.
Just seen Germany v Sweden goals – 4 up and cruising = 4-4 draw.
Your right – funny old game!
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/hurricane-craigie-set-to-hit-ibrox/
Somebody once said “football without fans is nothing”….and it was very cold in his shadow!
T4
Any CQN Bhoys or Lhassies going to the meeting with
Neil Lennon on Thursday?
A67
hen1rik
Careful.
I’m only repeating what Tommy in Glasgow is saying matey
hen1rik
Paul will not thank you. What Tommy says is his business. If he gets on the wrong side of anyone, that’s his business and I’m sure he can handle it. But if he does, and you repeat it, you can get Paul into similar bother. Paul, not you.
hen1rik – just add “alledgedly” to that type of comment or you will get our host into bother!
Considering that BDO were appointed by HMRC, then that is explosive stuff….if true.
T4
Regarding Hearts not playing 6 players has anyone asked why they is a £300k shortfall from the SPL?
Does everyone know why the shortfall is there but no one reports it?
How much did Hearts get for Templeton?
Has it been paid?
Have they received the outstanding “football debt” promised as part of the famous “five way hidden agreement”.
Awe Naw add it to the list, “We’re gonny need a bigger blog”
Celtic_First
ARE U PAUL67 ??????
No. I work in media.
Ok lads point taken but why would Paul get into trouble if I’m only posting what someone else has said.
Because, hypothetically, his blog would have published potentially, allegedly defamatory comments.
Ok matey
Celtic_First
00:04 on
17 October, 2012
No. I work in media.
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msm ????
appreciate your point btw
hen1rik – are you really that thick?! Ever heard of libel laws?
And who says you wouldn’t get into trouble as well?! Knock yerself out!
T4
No, not MSM. Business media. Businesses that are well tooled up legally and are not slow to let you know if they think you have over-stepped the mark.
Tigertim
SPL clubs got 600k last week
Sevco payments to jamboes is up to date.
Journalists doing players favours I reckon
tommytwiststommyturns
00:08 on
17 October, 2012
hen1rik – are you really that thick?! Ever heard of libel laws?
And who says you wouldn’t get into trouble as well?! Knock yerself out!
T4
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were awe just commenting on other peoples obsevations
its no a police state yet
i stress yet
tommytwiststommyturns
00:08 on 17 October, 2012
hen1rik – are you really that thick?! Ever heard of libel laws?
And who says you wouldn’t get into trouble as well?! Knock yerself out!
Oh so I’m thick now because i don’t know about libel laws
Sheik Yerbouti – aye but there’s laws there for a reason. Anyway, you still seeing Bobby Brown?! :-)
Night all
T4
Awe Naw, when you say Sevco payments up to date does this include the Wallace money or just a payment for Templeton?
Just read that Hearts have 46 of a playing staff!!
hen1rik
im unsure why people are warning you????
Andrew67 – I’ll be going with ma bhoy
hen1rik – I’m thick as well, just follow C_1st’s advice if you don’t want to get P67 or yourself into any trouble. Otherwise, people might think you have an agenda!
Night
T4
Kenny Millers head changed shape after he left us.
True story.
Sheik Yerbouti and Hen1rik
Celtic First is repeating a rule that Paul67 has stated on many an occasion.
Do not repeat an assertion that defames or libels someone who could sue the owner of this site for allowing it to be repeated here.
Let Tommy say what he has to say but be careful in the way you repeat it on here.
Tommy’s assertion is explosive. He will need to have evidence before that stands up. Until then it is libelous and to be avoided.
Stopping you from libeling someone without evidence does not equate to a police state. Every poster on here gets some protection from that law in preventing unfounded allegations about them spreading
Celtic_first
And słow to let us know if they have ?
hen1rik qaulified it a minute later.
I think his defence would pick up on that piece of evidence posted a few minutes earlier.
Did Paul67 not declare that we are all legally responsible for our own posts recently ? ;-)
Anyway lets move on before I get my collar felt ;-)
HH
tommytwiststommyturns
00:13 on
17 October, 2012
Sheik Yerbouti – aye but there’s laws there for a reason. Anyway, you still seeing Bobby Brown?! :-)
Night all
T4
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ahaaaaha
why u but eh
Tigertim
Includes both
HH
Awe Naw, good comments today, I agree with you, there is a great deal of public bodies complicit in all of the delays.
If interest is still being charges on the original amount then we are well through the £100 million due to these delays. Every month must be worth another, virtual, £1 million lost.
Its only virtual as nothing will ever be payed.
A few minutes later …should read obviously
HH
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
00:16 on
17 October, 2012
Celtic_first
And słow to let us know if they have ?
hen1rik qaulified it a minute later.
I think his defence would pick up on that piece of evidence posted a few minutes earlier.
Did Paul67 not declare that we are all legally responsible for our own posts recently ? ;-)
Anyway lets move on before I get my collar felt ;-)
HH
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indeed
when have we been a police state
when r we devoid of not having ears
insulting.com
phyllis dietrichson
19:19 on
16 October, 2012
How come Paul67 is calling for newco to incur penalties for the deeds of oldco? If the SFA share had passed to Buckie Thistle we wouldn’t ask for them to carry oldco penalties.
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Phyllis, my view also. If we believe that Sevco are a new company and RFC died following administration and liquidation a number of weeks back then why would any deeds carried out by oldco affect newco? The FTT is going to be addressed by HMRC going after oldco board and directors. If the double contracts investigation goes against oldco then the dead rangers may find their historic achievements re-aligned to reflect the cheating. Only impact on newco would be their continued insistence that they own the history also, which we all know is nonsense.
hail! Hail!
No harm to Tommy. I love him. His explanation tonight as to how Big Vic can “accidentally” bump into Messi (“I feel bad even for saying it cause he’s a lovely boy”), who bumps into Iniesta and they both have to leave the field, while Vic avoids a card and Celtic go on to win 0-5 is complete genius.
However, if you are BDO, you will dismiss him as an eccentric, a maverick, banned by Radio Clyde et cetera.
CQN is a different animal.