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.
Click here to read the fabulous CQN Magazine for free, or strain your eyes squinting below. You can also buy a hard copy of the magazine here from Magcloud.
[calameo code=000390171a36dad35d58c lang=en page=32 hidelinks=1 width=100% height=500]
901 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 17
- 18
- 19
- 20
- 21
- 22
- 23
- 24
- »
hen1rik
well done for your post
loving this radio show
i have ears like u
Awe Naw
Aye, I hope so.
All I said to Hen1rik was “careful”.
Kenny Miller’s skin changed colour when he left Celtic.
It went from Caucasian to sunbed
Celtic_first
Aye Nae bother …. Was puliing TTTT’s leg really … And then SFTB comes on and makes me feel bad ;-) But .brother Tommy has been pretty good … so far and it sounds very reassuring that things are on track also Phils blog tonight …I will sleep better tonight.
Sleep well tims. Sweet Dreams.
HH
Awe Naw, author and publisher are both responsible for comments posted. As publisher I will provide all and any identifying information required on a slanderous (not libel, as you would think) comment posted, but, publisher is first port of call.
This situation is an absolute cesspit but specific allegations should be researched and backed up by the authors name and address.
estorilbhoy, not sure I am actively calling for Newco to receive Rangers penalties but this is de facto the case. Newco are only playing football right now because they inherited Rangers membership of the SFA, including all liabilities. These are the rules.
The alternative for Newco would be for them to kick around non-league football for three years then apply for membership on their own. This would work for me but they took a shortcut, which was made available to them. If Newco receive the benefit from this opportunity (league membership now) they will also be liable for the penalties.
Bed now.
Miku is on for Venezuela now. It’s 1-1 against Ecuador, with 15 minutes to go.
estoril got sent to his bed :oD))))
Canamalar
:-))))
MWD
praecepta
23:34 on
16 October, 2012
estorilbhoy
23:26 on 16 October, 2012
Just in from Vicente Colderon 1-1 good game good atmosphere but not a patch on CP.
Watching a re-run (10mins to go) – looked to me as if France’s use of the cross-field diagonal pass was causing Spain problems + some robust tackling/ closing down of the midfield upset the Spanish ‘ticky-tacky’ normal style?
—
Yes that was my reading. France had some really big guys up front that upset the Spanish back four and in the second half France could have scored on numerous occasions. Not sure who we could use to do a similar job in Barca, Sammi and hoops are strong but hoops is not as formidable in height as some of the French guys tonight.
Paul67
On an anonymous blog I hope every one realises that. Nobody would expect you to take the can for an anonymous blogger. Immediate cooperation on your behalf as you have pointed out surely renders any possible action against you to a minimum.
If it were to pass I hope you have legal insurance or if you need help let me know.
If you need my Thai brother in law to sign any documents and provide passport proof for absolutely anything. Let me know ;-)
HH
Take=carry
Definitely bed time.
HH
estorilbhoy, not sure I am actively calling for Newco to receive Rangers penalties but this is de facto the case. Newco are only playing football right now because they inherited Rangers membership of the SFA, including all liabilities. These are the rules.
—
Paul if this is factually correct ( ” they inherited rangers membership of the SFA, including liabilities. ) then I can fully understand the implications of the tax case and double contract investigations, was unaware of this qualification, many thanks.
Hail! Hail!
Paul, off to bed can you put the lights put please :))
A want a bit of toast first
Put = out. Night Celtic world.
Canalamar
Nae cheese oan it, you don’t want they zombie dreams again!
You cannot libel or slander the dead…..or zombies (coz they’re no real). So……rfc was a club, now dead, with bloooterers for players, that operated like the effin’ mafia and was a front for some truly dubious goings on…..allegedly, so I hear. Their supporters/fans/follyfollyers contained some of the most bigoted racist thugs that you could imagine, like the kkk without the sheets….huns don’t do sheets.
They are still huns, but their club is dead. Their new club will soon be dead, too. Then, what they gonna do do do?
Stand in the street and howl in all probability. They have nowhere left to turn, except on each other. And if the news starting to leak out, like steam from The Titanic, is anything to go by, then they are heading down.
They put themselves in a hole, then they started digging.
You gotta love ’em, the undead. Neither here nor there. Simply nowhere, where they belong.
kickin….,
just loads of butter mmmmmmm
Some good old advice for the hun, which will be immediately ignored.
“Sit down before fact as a little child, be prepared to give up every preconceived notion, follow humbly wherever and whatever abysses nature leads, or you will learn nothing.” – Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
Now I am hungry…
….
night night n
hail hail
Chuck Green the Euro Emperor with no Clothes
Any oz melbourne bhoys on ?
Mate is going to melbourne cup next month is asking any bars/clubs to recommend ?
Mid 20’s he is.
Anywhere u would catch some unrependant songs of resistance and where does csc games be shown ?
Thanks
WAS THIS CQN’s VERSION OF THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM!
PAUL67. YOUR SERVER SHOULD BE WELL RESTED TO COPE TODAY.
MWD
MWD – aye mate, something is brewing and it ain’t my morning cuppa! :-)
Mornin CQNrs,
Interesting times emanating from Phil. Not seen anything yet in the MSM or beyond, maybe its too early yet.
Sort of in-betweeners day, team’s gathering back from international embarrassments.
Well done to young Andy Murray he was superb at the weekend !
HH
Morning northbhoy – aye Murray should be proud, very proud. He will be in many more finals, unlike that undead football club! ;-)
MWD:
FTT judgment?
At long last?
Do tell…
WWC
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/hurricane-craigie-set-to-hit-ibrox/
MWD
Anybody about?
Looks like I’ll have to do a bit of work instead :-(
morning bhoys/ghirls
on this day in 1931 Al Capone was convicted for tax evasion….
hmmmmmmm
Anyone able to post what tommy said on his show last night?
Buddy Morrisey
22:20 on
16 October, 2012
Dont know couldnt see it for the track suit.
Good morning from an overcast yet still-dry North East Fife.
That was the most quiet nightshift for a long time. I’m just glad there were no more links from petec to follow; ones that I’ve clicked on in the past and which I’m sure mean I’m on a government’s list somewhere!
blantyretim
08:00
Could be fate
Is it possible for someone to say exactly what Tommy said last night?????
HH
BT- gangsta wannabes the lot of them. From Fat Sal, China Whyte, Chuckie ‘the fence’ Green, David ‘Hotwheels’ Murray to their mouthpiece James ‘two tonne’ Traynor. They thought they were above the law, allegedly.
ibleedgreenandwhite1
08:16 on 17 October, 2012
I posted 1 thing last night matey but it had to be removed, if true it’s explosive stuff.