You wonder if Ally McCoist rues the day he called for the public outing of members of the SFA Judicial Panel which imposed a player registration ban on his club. One judge, one journalist and one football club, Raith Rovers, were soon outed. Crossing the Fifers was a mistake.
Raith Rovers are now pointing out the same facts we have discussed here for months:
“We are also concerned that there has not as yet been an opportunity for clubs to receive legal advice from the SFL and/or debate the potential consequences on the smooth running of our league in the event that the Courts are asked to annull/strike down any of the corporate transactions that have led to the current position of Sevco Scotland Ltd as owners of certain assets of the Rangers oldco.
“Indeed, the position as regards the potential sanctions to be applied by the Scottish FA via its Appellate Tribunal has also still to be bottomed out.”
In short, Sevco’s ownership of Ibrox may be nullified by the courts and the SFA will be forced to subvert judicial oversight if it wants to guarantee Sevco participate in football next season.
While these concerns were only expressed online, the SFA were able to ignore the issue, but with Raith Rovers asking the questions Mr Regan will have to look SFL clubs in the eye and tell them what he’s going to do with Lord Carloway.
Lurgan 53
Dwyer O’Hagan, or Lurgan 53 as he was known here, passed away on Wednesday after an illness stretching back to last year. Dwyer enjoyed our triumphs and defeats on the blog for many years and will be sadly missed by us all. Our condolences to his family and friends.
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South of Tunis
Thanks!
That makes sense now.
Anyway, got a place to go, back later.
DBBIA
Yes I think you’re dead right modern standards have allowed ‘world class’ to be branded around like the ole confetti at Liz Taylor’s weddings!
I was lucky enough to see Danny for several years before he retired in ’86 I think but probably don’t remember him at his very best. He really was a very special player.
Btw drove down through Shangra la on the M74 yesterday. Those wind turbines really don’t add to the aesthetics of the place ye know!!
This week also marks the 3 weeks given to Duff and Duffer by Lord Justice Hodge for them to report to him regarding a possible conflict of interests, I think that Thursday or at the latest Friday is the time limit. They’ve been awfy quiet since Lord Hodge asked them to report to him. This is going to be a very interesting week as I believe BDO take over the liquidation on Tuesday.
HAMILTONTIM 1148
There is a fervent wish that if those turbines can get a bit of speed up,they will take off.
And take D&G with it.
George Connelly ?
Celtic 3 Penarol 1 [ 1973 ?]
I remember the Penarol manager raving about how good George Connelly was . Celtic team that night included Johnstone / McGrain / Murdoch and Dalglish
BMCUW
I remember hoping the same thing would happen when the hun hoardes used to do that idiotic twirly thing with their scarves in response to us doing Walk On :-)
Now before anyone starts I know its self inflicted wounds,
was up in the father in laws earlier and he was ranting about Burleys latest piece in the Sunday Mire, dearie me this latest effort has reached new depths, we have all had our say as to how low “journalism” in this country has stooped, but if the sports editor at the Mire isnt challenged for the abuse Burley has dolled out today there really really is something far wrong, an absolutely despicable individual but this one honestly puts even his past efforts to shame.
If ANY club is given preferential treatment, for ANY reason, the integrity of the game is gone forever.
It is as simple as that. Manipulate the rules to show favour to ANYONE and you destroy the game for EVERYONE.
No amount of TV money, sponsorship, dividends etc… will EVER make up for sacrificing integrity.
Manipulate the rules for ANYONE and the rules are not worth having.
The SPL made the correct decision.
It is up to the SFL to ensure that sporting integrity is not sold out for a pot of very sordid cash.
You have no choice. You CANNOT vote yes. This is not about funding models, league structures etc… it is SOLELY about integrity.
Once it is gone, it will never be recovered.
Consider this very, very carefully.
SOUTH OF TUNIS
Aye,I was there-was it a charity game,UNICEF maybe?
Wasn’t a H-U-G-E turnout,esp as PENAROL were a very good side at the time,but we certainly gave them a doing.
IIRC,they played in a bright yellow,but we outshone them by a distance.
This idiot still doesn’t get it.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/football/spl/rangers/2012/07/08/rangers-in-crisis-gordon-smith-believes-there-is-a-lot-of-anti-rangers-feeling-out-there-86908-23906002/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Other news would suggest that Lenny is going to rip Victor a new one and remind him and his agent that he still has 3 years to run in his contract. I’m more than a tad disappointed that I won’t be able to go to any of the friendlies here in Germany, they are just too far to travel to during the week with work the following days. My 2 Bhoys are desperate to go but it is just not possible. What is wrong with weekends? Any of the other German based Celts going to manage?
Hail! Hail! PMTYH
South Of Tunis on 8 July, 2012 at 11:52 said
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 8 July, 2012 at 11:56 said
3-0 1976 crowd of 39,000?
When Big Billy got the sack in 1991 the board told him he was getting a 400K pay off. When Billy got back to his house he found Martin Hayes in the garage.
MONAGHAN 1900
I think it was this one.
http://www.celticprogrammesonline.com/PROGRAMME%20COVERS/7374/penarol/penarol7374h.htm
Just switched on SSN there after completing the first series of Mad Men there,
Whats the score with Wanyama?
Any truth he wants away?
HH
Jealousy.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 8 July, 2012 at 12:02 said:
I didn’t realise they had played before. I was at the 3-0 game which George Connelly didn’t play in.
hamiltontim on 8 July, 2012 at 11:48 said:
”Btw drove down through Shangra la on the M74 yesterday. Those wind turbines really don’t add to the aesthetics of the place ye know!!”
The SNP government are intent on destroying the Scottish landscape. What is happening under their rule is scandalous. It doesn’t matter that local authorities, even SNP controlled ones, reject planning applications, they are rammed through by the Scottish goverment.
So far as I can work it out their main motivation seems to be to differentiate us, in terms of our electricity supply, from the English.
Che
What has old blabber chops had to say?
HT
hes only gone and called supporters and officials at lower league clubs
nonentities, muppets, backward idiots, neanderthals, knuckledraggers amongst other things for having the audacity to question regan and doncaster re sevco,
honestly in all the pieces weve mumped and moaned about from burley and others this one really is the worst!
My recollection of the Penarol game was that they kept possession for the first 5 or 6 mins initially to the awe and then the frustration of the crowd. I think they may have been the World Champios at the time. Incredible from a country of 3 million.
” Anti Rangers sentiment is holding Scottish football back ”
Gordon Duffield Smith 8 /7 /12.
Stupid is as stupid does
ernie
I can’t really debate with you as I don’t know enough about the politics, in particular the SNP stance, regarding the entire policy.
I was teasing DBBIA as he’s a well known opponent of turbines and the detrimental effect on the landscape. Also because I went to a college down there for a year and remember the rolling hills of D&G, it’s such a shame to see it spoiled by these monstrosities.
Che
What an outrageously disrespectful article ……
South of Tunis
Another example of their sense of superiority and entitlement
They simply can’t see the damage they have done to Scottish football
No interest nor perception of sporting integrity
They will not change
ole Ernie joins Prince Philip and myself in the anti-wind turbine consortium.
They are an unproven, expensive technology that are 100% the wrong answer to the question of Scotland’s energy needs.
PFayr
Its a tirade,
honestly ive refrained from getting involved re his previous comments either in the papers or ESPN
but this, this is astonishing and even more astonishing is that it passed what even the Mire must have as an editorial standard.
Interesting take on the actions of the SPL here;
http://firsttouch.hk/2012/07/settling-agreements/
Two Scottish institutions refuse to pay debts to cash-strapped football teams. One is vilified, placed into administration, then liquidated. The other continues to run the top league in Scottish football.
The first is Rangers. The second is the Scottish Premier League.
Rangers were roundly condemned because Craig Whyte, after engineering a possibly criminal takeover of the company running the football club, didn’t hand over taxes to the HMRC. In other words, a private company (Rangers) failed to pay a debt (tax owed) and was put into administration by the creditor (HMRC).
Administration led to liquidation which led to Charles Green crawling in front of his fellow SPL clubs in a Hampden conference room, begging them to keep Rangers in the top league.
Green’s peers voted no, then rode out of Hampden on their high horses claiming “sporting integrity” made them do it. After all, Rangers must be punished. It’s not fair that they don’t pay their debts.
Yet this is exactly what the SPL are proposing to do.
Twenty-four hours before that King’s Park conclave, SPL chief executive Neil Doncaster stood in front of Scottish Football League clubs and told them if they didn’t destroy their own “sporting integrity” – by parachuting Rangers directly into the top tier of the SFL instead of Division Three – then his organisation would withhold the £2m annual payment from the SPL to the SFL.
In other words, a private company (the SPL) is refusing to pay a debt owed (the settlement payment) to its creditor (the SFL).
A payment that was contractually agreed when the SPL split from the SFL and that is written into the rules of the Scottish Premier League. A payment that Scottish football’s small clubs depend on.
As far as I can see, the only difference between the actions of Craig Whyte and Neil Doncaster is that Whyte denied his misdeeds for as long as possible. Doncaster is telling the world in advance.
So far, the SFL clubs have shown themselves to be way ahead of their SPL peers when it comes to showing integrity (the real kind, not the fake “sporting” kind). They should maintain this and do the right thing.
Refuse to accept Rangers into their top flight.
If the SPL won’t pay the settlement fee, take them to court for it. If they can’t pay, put the SPL into administration.
That will create a problem for the SFL. Because the top clubs won’t have a league to play in, they’ll come to the SFL looking for a place to play. How will the SFL be able to accommodate twelve new teams at once?
Easy.
Create a Division Four.
Price of admission: two million pounds.
– Billy Williamson.
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(Defo a Tim with that name ;-)
Lubo.
che
Burley can’t afford integrity it comes at too high a price for him.
Definitely one to be pitied rather than scorned.
Penarol .
Celtic played [ and beat ] Penarol at Parkhead in the autumn of 1967 . The game was arranged to give Celtic experience of playing against a South American team prior to the games v Racing Club.
Best wishes to Joe McBride, I had the pleasure of Joes company in Belfast recently when along with John Clark and Bertie Auld (Bertie Bertie Bertie what a man!) they attended the Erin Go Bragh Charity Dance, all 3 were great company, and had ample time for everyone, not only at the Dance itself but on the flight and airport coming home, nothing was a problem for them.
In our thoughts and Prayers Joe.
2010 Never Again
While we are reminiscing.
Ten thirty took a bit of beating when it came to being cute…especially with MIB Tiny Wharton. Read on.
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Bertie to Tiny Wharton(Referee) – “If I call you an a*sehole Mr Wharton will I get booked?”
Tiny. – “Yes Mr Auld. You’d be in trouble.”
Bertie.- “What if I just thought you were an a*sehole, what would happen?”
Tiny. – “If you just thought it nothing would happen”
Bertie. – “Well Mr Wharton, I think you’re an a*sehole”
DBBIA
Please understand that I wasn’t mocking, I have great memories of D&G and have promised before the summer is out to take my 11 year old walking near Moffat.
It was sad to see the landscape spoiled in this way.
Ole Craig Burley would make a fine hunsy gumsy wind turbine.
HT- the Devil’s beef tub and the grey mare’s tail.
I hope the ole rain relents and you get the chance to see the hills in their splendour.
ernie lynch,
Scotland is a world leader in wind turbine technology, don’t you know?
I’ve been told by a couple of different civil servants within the Scottish Government that policies to make Scotland look different from the rest of the UK will be welcomed. And especially anything that lets ministers claim Scotland to be a world leader in anything at all.
I think if they were able to harness the hot air produced in MSM editors offices, they wouldn’t need wind turbines.
DBBIA
The Grey Mare’s Tail, that’s the very fellow.
She’s desperate to do a hill walk and overnight camp and I’ve heard that, for a novice, this would be ideal on both counts.