In his Christmas Day message last year, Uefa president, Michel Platini spoke in the firmest terms possible about many of the issues facing Scottish football right now.
He told us that 2011 was “one of those years where one feels the weight and magnitude of one’s responsibilities, but which equally serves to provide greater strength. Because, the just cause – however difficult it may be – is all the more obvious.”
This is a strong statement of intent. Platini fully understands the position of president is not ceremonial, it has weighty responsibilities. If he believes these specific words, “the just cause – however difficult it may be – is all the more obvious”, he must take an immediate active involvement to protect the game in Scotland.
M Platini goes on to say, “To be a president is not to have an organisation at one’s service, but to be at the service of an organisation, of a game, of football.”
Scottish FA president, Campbell Ogilvie, who has been inextricably linked to the on-going improper registration of Rangers players allegations his organisation declined to investigate, would do well to consider these words. He is in place to serve the game yet he has offered us no information on the subject.
Michel then added, “It has been a year which has underlined the importance of our organisation [Uefa] as one of the guarantors of the values, stability and equity of this sport.”
Uefa guarantee the values, stability and equity of football. They do not work towards equity, they ensure it is imposed, you have the president’s word.
“It has been a year in which certain of our national associations have had to take courageous decisions to preserve the justice and integrity of our sport.”
Here, Michel could be speaking about the SFA, who have to take courageous decisions to preserve justice and integrity in the face of gross charges of financial and regulatory doping on a scale not seen anywhere in Europe.
His most important comment, which reflected on 2011, was:
“A year in which we have also had to remain solid and defend our values – sometimes alone – to guarantee the respecting of the rules and the equity of the competitions, and to prevent football becoming a hostage of a few for their own profit and interests.”
“Respecting… the rules and the equity of the competitions”. This includes player registration rules.
More importantly, “to prevent football becoming a hostage of a few for their own profit and interests”.
This is where we are today. Football in Scotland has become a hostage of a few who will follow their own interests, not those values Michel Platini holds dear.
The president goes on to say that 2011“has been a year in which, unfortunately and at the expense of certain agonies, football has emphasised its need for transparency and governance, aspects which are so important in relation to the respect which is so dear to me.”
There may be other countries in Europe more deserving of M Platini’s intervention, but the crisis in Scotland is acute and urgent, and the SFA appear overwhelmed. We need the oversight only Uefa can provide and its president promised in his Christmas message.
For an extended synopsis of how we got to where we are, catch up on Saturday’s blog.
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Gordybhoy,
You bookies are taking a tanking this week.
bjmac
Indeed Placido and Luciano leading the ol Green Brigade! :-)
001 Bhoy (aka Summa)
Mate you know I read your posts.
I’ll share a hymn to Jinky with you too.
Hail, Queen of heaven, the ocean star,
Guide of the wanderer here below,
Thrown on life’s surge, we claim thy care,
Save us from peril and from woe.
Mother of Christ, Star of the sea
Pray for the wanderer, pray for me.
O gentle, chaste, and spotless Maid,
We sinners make our prayers through thee;
Remind thy Son that He has paid
The price of our iniquity.
Haha,Life Of Brian,classic.
“You’ll find yourself back in gladiator school vewy quickly with wotten behaviouw like that.”
To all Tims throughout the world,goodnight.
To any sad Huns just die.
Has no one ever considered that WE, Celtic Football Club, are now THE major power in Scottish football. Forget what the rest of them decide amongst themselves. Without US, they’re knackered.
Its a power we should use wisely, and we will.
BABASONICOS71 on 13 March, 2012 at 00:39 said:
Nice try! Few wrong but you’re not cheating.
ps that means you have integrity!!!!!!!!!
HH
SFTB
So you watched the programme when it was first screened ..?
Well,perhaps you could gain much from watching it again,pausing and rewinding as necessary…and,with the
passage of time that has elapsed,judge just how prescient MalcMuggeridge was in his reaction to the programme.
But I expect you are also a big fan of
the odious Stewart Lee,who was responsible for the BBC abomination at the licence-payers’ expense,”Jerry
Springer:The Opera”.
And the cartoon series expensively commisioned by BBC3,”Popeville”,which mocked Catholicism and included a character based on the Bishop of Motherwell.
In the event,it was never show on tv in Britain….although the BBC did try to flog it to TV channels in other countries.
However,it was released on DVD,and I’m sure Ernie probably has a copy that he could lend you..
Kit
Love that hymn.
AoW,
Grassy arse mi amigo.
Many right?
SHOULD MAYBE HAVE ASKED THIS EARLIER THIS EVENING , BUT DOES ANYONE THINK THAT WE COULD DO WORSE THAN GET GEORGE GALLOWAY TO HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE ALLEGED GOINGS ON WITH THE RANGERS TAX CASE , TICKETUS. DOUBLE CONTRACTS. CAMPBELL OGILVIE, THE SPL TEN. THE SFA. THE FIT AND PROPER DIRECTORS. (god when do i stop ) CRAIG WHYTE. THE BLUE KNIGHTS . DUFF AND PHELPS. PAUL; MURRAY . DAVE KING . THE SCOTTISH MEDIA AND MINTY MOONBEAMS. ONE THINGS FOR SURE , HE WOULD TAKE THEM ON . AND PUT THEM IN THE SPOTLIGHT.
JIMTIM
^^^^^^^
Cap attack.
Please take 1 valium before continuing…
BABASONICOS71 on 13 March, 2012 at 01:02 said:
AoW,
Grassy arse mi amigo.
Many right?
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BABASONICOS71 – you’re Mr 50%.
HH
TSD
I like Stewart Lee but have not seen the opera. Never saw Popeville.
When we reduce any argument to the level of ” I bet you’re the kind of guy that likes….”, then it suggests we are struggling to deal with the points that are being made directly and we are having to construct straw arguments that are easier to deal with.
I’m off to bed now in order to make my contribution tomorrow to our Capitalist economy, or Mixed Economy as I prefer.
I’ll leave you with the thought that John Cleese did a better spoof of sectarian (sic) left-wing politics in the Judean People’s Front sketch than anything appearing under Antifa or Dave Spart in Private Eye. Maybe you have to have some empathy to get some telling truth in your humour.
BTW you do not have to answer these questions but I will ask anyway.
Are you a UK based or an Oz based poster?
Are you involved with the clergy in some capacity?
Personally i think if Jesus came down again an seen how much money the pope had at his dispensel he’d say, get the F*** out of my house. But we all know its about politics dont we? Dont We?
“Once to every man and nation
Comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth and falsehood,
For the good or evil side;”
James Russell Lowell – As quoted by Rev. Martin Luther King
AoW,
Thank you,just passed. :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5sBogAPP5I&feature=related
SCRAPETHROUGHcsc
All I said was, that fish was good enough for Jehovah.
Babasonicos71 – haha. You’re still top of the class just now!
Scratcher time. I’ll post that again in the morning as not much of a response from the nightshift! :-)
Nite all!
HH
AoW
“Up you go big nose.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4nBwwUufWE
jimtim,
to answer both your questions
I think the hun are getting an easy time because of fear, the pwers that be are afraid of the violence that is inevitable when they do go down.
Their biggest problem is they know the police will not acqit theiruty properly as they have proven themselve inept when dealing wth the hun.
As for George Galloway, I dont think you’d be doing either the argument or George any favours.
There are enough idiots that still believe the the smear of corruption and dismiss him as loony left.
George is already a target for the corrupt scum, this stuff will turn murderous, Gerge is hated enough already.
JimmyQuinnsBits on 12 March, 2012 at 22:40 said:
Infinite patience produces immediate results. It takes time for anything to happen, we humans are prisoners of it and just because something in the future is not apparent now does not mean it will not become so.
Everyone has the time of their life, if there was no time there would be nothing and nowhere for the life experience to take place.
Sorry to sound so philsosophical but the secret of time travel is patience.
On the practical side just as the SFA did not police Rangers on CW as a fit and proper person so too does UEFA not police the SFA for fitness of purpose. Apart from the rsources needed it is in Rangers interest to do fit and proper checks correctly and the SFAs to govern properly. For that reason they are trusted to know what is good for them. However it is only when they break that trust that it becomes evident they are untrustworthy and have damaged themselves.
All UEFA can do in those circumstances is to invesitgate how it happened and strengthen processes to try and avoid it happening again. But they can never guarantee somebody will not do something stupid.
What is abundantly clear is that the SFA need some authority above them locally that they are answerable and accountable to and that supporters should have a representative on that authority. It is a question of who guard the guards.
“You are the messiah and i should know i’ve followed a few.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penvn9VL32Y&ob=av2e
Civil war coming soon.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 13 March, 2012 at 01:21 said:
Neil thank you for your reply . You may well be right , i just feel we are not highlighting whats happening up here enough . I must be wrong as i seem to be the only person on this forum who thinks we should let the world know the alleged cheating that has gone on in the sport in this country .
jimtim
In the words of Craig Whyte, I’m not a profit, so i’ll take yours.
“Lord i am affected by a bald patch.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HaW5alLnC0&feature=related
“Oh you’re not that bad youself conkface.Where you from,Nose City?”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wr4jIWl654
WEWEASEWODEWICKcsc
jimtim,
no trying to facetious, but who have you let know
plenty of people on this blog have already made sure this does not stop in scotland.
the cat is out of the bag simply because people have let as many know as possible.
Must admit I’m a wee bit confused about your “alleged cheating” there is nothing alleged, it is as plain as the nose on your face from the top of governance through refereeing to the corrupt club it is rotten to the core.
Jimtim, Renton sums it up, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqgkZDbe4Xk
Change of flick but sheer class this scene from True Romance between Hopper and Walken.Both of tem are on a-form but Dennis steals it. :-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnAdWKiy-sc
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!..Truth and Justice will always prevail on 13 March, 2012 at 00:19 said:
I think you have misread someone elses words for mine. The bit you mention was in an article by Alex Thomson of ITVCh4 that brings out the bigger issues that TBB covered in his Saturday blog that Paul posted.
On how can they be sold if they have no licence the answer is they can as long as the buyer wants to take the risk that they will a) not have it withdrawn or if it is not have it reinstated.
The SFA can not refuse a licence for not having any signed off AGM ratified accounts until April 1st. By then I expect the Nimmo report will have been examined as well so thatthey might well have a number of reasons to not award a club licence.
I reckon the SFA and SPL will suspend any decision until the ende of the season to allow fixtures to be fulfilled. By then the BTC result should be in and the SFA will by then know if they are dealing with Oldco or Newco.
If Newco I would expect Oldco’s titles to be removed as punishment and God knows what other castigations. As regards Newco I would want the SFA to insist on a probationary period starting in Div3 and lay down the conditions.
Newco will be out of Europe for three years anyway and if the alternative is also points deduction (that is challengable by a Newco) the gates attracted by a team not able to win anything would not be that different from a team starting in Div3 that could.
It actually would make sense to new owners to seek a Div3 start which might reduce income but will certainly reduce expenditire on players wages.
The only people this does not suit are the media with their noses in the trough.
corection
a) not have it withdrawn or if it is – have it reinstated.
@poolbhoy
@01:11
I take it you meant ‘disposal’?
As you seem to be in the know, how much does the Pope have at his ‘dispensel’?
VertWolf on 13 March, 2012 at 00:19 said:
it i sevident from the rtc blog that supporters of other clubs feel as we do. Hearts, Dunbdee Utd, ICT, Aberdeeen and St Mirren supporters have voiced their concerns.
ht,
there was a blog that identified that the vatican offered the british govt enough gold to pay off the national debt as an interest free loan, it was refused.
Hamiltontim, i am, duly corrected of course you are right. Disposal is much better.
All I’m saying is, this is not what JC intended. Or maybe ive picked the whole message up wrong.
Chill brothers and sisters.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJunijzmjks
No Newco.No sympathy.
GLASGOW’S GREEN AND WHITE!