“The Scottish FA has a responsibility to all its members and must implement its rules without fear or favour”. Stewart Regan, SFA chief executive, 24 April 2012.
What chance the SFA will be able to act without fear now? I don’t imply they will act without favour, but do you believe SFA panellists can act without fear? Anyone who participates in Rangers appeal process and upholds their punishment will act despite fear.
This process, one of the most important the SFA has dealt with in years, has been subverted, and that calls for a far greater sanction that any already imposed.
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young Scot of the year award at Hilton tonight
Reamonn Gormley Rip
garygillespieshamstring on 26 April, 2012 at 21:30 said:
Did Gorum not also provide evidence of low income when he had a fine for a traffic offence? Had to pay back at a few quid per week.
McCoist is a disgrace to Scottish Football. I have been in London all day but I read his utterly pathetic defence of his statement. I assume that none of our esteemed hacks asked what his motive was for his demand the 3 panelists to named when he already knew exactly who they were. He should have the book thrown at him, in fact the entire library should be thrown at him. If the SFA do nothing they are finished.
Celtic could do worse than Look at Bilbao’s Lloriente and Martinez, exactly what we need,
jinkyredstar..
beat me to it…. o))
O.G.Rafferty on 26 April, 2012 at 21:16
I believe the same, keep diggin.
HH
JSC,
All football related income should be contained in the contract and registered with the national association, including bonus.
TET, could we afford those players? both look good.
We’ve got Valencia – Atl Madrid and it’s all kicking off here. Fighting on the pitch…..
Well, pushing, shoving and theatrical dives at least
So Nevins likes to see yellow cards for diving? For simulation? For tackles?
Snivellin’ hypocritical creep.
Barcabhoys post on RTC and the reaction to the SFA judicial findings has me thinking what will happen to the 3 judges when the result fo the FTT is known.
Will the Daily Record have 3 shadows in wigs demanding to know who they are. God help them if they have remotely Roman Catholic names.
Mind you, public revulsion and should be at a level where hopefully even the Daily Records fantasies will not go to print.
Exiled Tim,
Agreed but Lloriente would cost in excess of £20m !!
TJ
Could be a sting in the tail for Bilbao here ……
ExiledTim
If only. I think this team will be picked off in the summer and they might be outwith our budget. Fantastic side to watch.
Doc
We could afford their wages, they would only be on about 8k tops, probably less just now, don’t know how long they are tied up for
Apologies if previously posted
Alex Tompson’s blog
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http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thoms…d-rangers/1302
I’ve waited a day or two to write this. And I write on the train from Amsterdam to The Hague to witness the first ever head of state receiving sentence for war crimes.
So everything’s relative. Even Rangers…
26 McCoist g 620 In the 21st century rules apply even to Rangers
And from outwith Glasgow the perspective’s glaring.
Faced with a judicial process at the Scottish Football Association and a due appeal process (active now) to be heard before a retired judge or QC – faced with all that, what does the Rangers manager Ally McCoist do?
Bide his time? Seek appeal advice? Reserve comment on an obviously sub-judicial procedure?
No – he suddenly demands on Rangers TV on Tuesday that the Scottish Football Association panel which imposed a 12 month ban on the club buying players be identified in public.
As an act of such irresponsibility in the current climate beggars belief. Like so many in this drama Mr McCoist goes “public” in an environment where I doubt he’ll never be properly questioned.
Far from letting due process happen and preparing the case for appeal, Mr McCoist chooses a lynch mob approach potentially putting the safety of these people at risk.
It’s an action redolent of the lack of reality, prudence, judgement and moral decency which has characterised so much of a club that’s brought the game into deep disrepute. Moreover, some might observe that Mr McCoist’s inflammatory tantrum is in itself likely to bring the club and himself into disrepute.
Will Mr McCoist be equally “public” in facing up to the responsibility of what he’s done? Given the cowardice of his initial act, you have to say it’s doubtful.
RangersCrisis In the 21st century rules apply even to Rangers
Mr McCoist and Rangers need another reminder that even Glasgow football is now living in the 21st century. Rules get applied – even to Rangers. Outside Glasgow football where else would anyone in normal public life question the independence of the panel as he did – then call for them to he named for the mob? Yet the sheer and obvious outrage his actions should provoke raises little adverse comment in the city. No – so much attention remains focused on the astounding fact that a club that broke rules got punished. Doh!
Small wonder it leaves SFA chief executive saying the rules will be applied without fear or favour. But why should he have to? In any normal world this is a given and accepted. In Glasgow football the man imposing the rules has to say he’ll do his job as if it’s news.
Meanwhile, if I get time in the small matter of a war crimes court, I shall ask the SFA if they intend charging Ally McCoist with bringing the game into dispute for questioning the SFA’s motives, independence and arguably, putting the safety of its independent panel at risk.
Meanwhile… Charles Taylor… Sierra Leone… mass rape… child soldiers… death by machete… and a city and a court where yes, they apply the rules without fear or favour and they don’t feel the need to say so.
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Reamonn Gormley’s Mum and Dad should be the proudest parents on Gods earth. ‘You don’t raise heroes, your just blessed if your young become one’.
Enjoy your evening the ‘Gormely Family’, you deserve respect,!
T4
Sure I read it in the daily record years ago so it goes without saying that it must be true.:)
I would go for the early – mid 60s shamrock strip for the away kit. Complete with the hooped socks with a different number and style of hoops on each leg. They must have just kept all the socks in a big hamper and you just grabbed any two.
Hh
Ggh
notafanofsoal
so the SFA should have at least been suspicious by all these Rangers contracts paying ‘peanuts’.
and I bet what we were paying our players was passed onto the Huns.
Silver City
Ha….Aye like MadMoisty was ” a bit naughty ” when he purposefully incited his lowlife ilk to rise up, in typical true hun style.
The identities of the three persons were never meant to be made known. The structure for the inquiries were laid out and voted in by Ratners and every other club last year in response to McLeishes Report.
We know their identities were disclosed by someone affiliated with that mob.
A further sanction should now be placed on the Sue Barker pesterer and his stinkin club. Absolutely reprehensible given the climate we and obviously, in particular Neil Lennon, have endured these past few seasons.
I just hope it has eroded away at any sympathy those less enlightened may have had for them.
Obliterate them.
Is it not the case that EBTs were used legally during the 9 but that there is some complication meaning HMRC cannot go back that far? Paul67 mentioned Joachim Bjorkland as the first. Perhaps there are no records or the POlice were not able to recover documents when they went in after the Boumsong evidence.
5 stars mean bore…
fritzsong on 26 April, 2012 at 21:03 said:
Acid test – has he ever said anything original?
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I think you’ve hit the nail on the head re Spiers. I think he has talent and unlike you I enjoy quite a lot of his work. But he is an academic in his style and not an original thinker.
Still think he’s better than most tho thats not saying much!
TET
If out of contract, maybe, but the fee?
Plenty of cash rich clubs will be interested, good shout though, both would do a job for us.
I’ll look forward to John Park and Neil Lennon unearthing the next big thing in the summer.
Llorente has 20 caps and seven goals for the best nation in the world, he’s 26.
He is worth a fortune. Even a billionaire with wealth off the radar would struggle to afford him.
TJ
Away strip..?…..no contest….STARRY PLOUGH
There are quite a few CB in Spain that we could get for free, and would be better than we have presently,their wages wouldn’t be a bother, but I doubt John Park is looking over here.
20mill sounds a bit steep, but when Andy Carrol costs 35 mill 20 mill is a bargin.
In Lenny I trust, maybes Mo Bangura will surprise us all :>)
mullet
legally from a HMRC perspective or a SPL/SFA ?
……Or what Big Al Thompson said….!
Get in tae thumm big yin !!
Haw Haw
Goodnight CQN – God Bless :-))
Anytime I’ve seen a radar on the telly it looks about the size of a dinner plate, bigger on nuclear submarines (I am unsure why) but not by much. So if your wealth is off the radar does that mea……..
Aw, wait, is it an allegro? A metaphysic?
Or does it mean your wallet is on the table next to the radar?
U
Surely even Ally McCoist realises that the public will not be keen on seeing him re-employed elsewhere should the FTT come out in favour of HMRC. I mean this will be headline news on the national UK news. Will BBC viewers be keen to see him back on a question of sport knowing that he is a cheat?
A cheat in the sense that he has probably had an EBT and knows where this is all heading and still he lets the baying mob loose on 3 innocent men. Cheeky chappy indeed.
If Lisbon had one good pass in their locker they might have wrapped this game up…
Doc : I might have my court cases mixed up
Ggh
**censored** yassssssssss
Ath Bil Score!
Ok we’ve got Athletic Bilbao v Sporting Lisbon and Valencia v Atletico Madrid.
Who are the usual suspects hating tonight, apart from the obvious – let it go, it was nearly 40 years ago.
Which of the 4 teams has a player with a dog called Billy?
Who is playing tonight who drives a royal blue Ferrarri?
Anyone?
jock steins celtic
legally from an HMRC perspective