When you have a potential loss to the tax payer of £75m, allegations of tax irregularities, political interference, alleged sporting malfeasance and stand of the brink of the largest corporate failure in Scottish history (discounting the bailed-out RBS) the profile of the story rises above the blogs and regular Scottish media.
Alex Thomson, chief correspondent for Channel 4 News, a man who reports from war zones, interviews prime ministers and presidents, decided to look into how the SFA were handling the current crisis in Scottish football. Yesterday he blogged on the subject, raising many of the questions we have asked in recent months.
On Twitter this morning he reported his experience in trying to get some sense out of the SFA, this is what he said:
“SFA say President Campbell Ogilvie is ‘distancing himself from the current Rangers investigation’ but did not explain how.
“Campbell Ogilvie ‘did not know’ about EBT contract when he was Rangers FC secretary?
“When we asked why not – that was his job – SFA said they didn’t know.
“SFA say their President and fmr Ranger secretary Campbell Ogilvie will not be interviewed by c4news about what he knew…
“SFA say their President Campbell Ogilvie ‘has no plans to stand aside from his job pending current Rangers probes…
“Interesting SFA have just accused me of ‘lying’, ‘pig-headedness’ and then put the phone down mid-conversation….
“all because I put their own statement back to them that Campbell Ogilvie denied knowing about EBTs at Rangers…
“And suggested there might be a perceived conflict of interest in his current position until the investigations are complete”
Three weeks ago we suggested that Ogilvie’s position as SFA president was untenable, saying “The association cannot have a president embroiled in a tax evasion scam which, even before a verdict has been decided, has already caused untold harm to his former club and the reputation Scottish football.”
The SFA have been able to dismiss pleas for sporting integrity and ethical standards from the blogsphere while the mainstream media have either chased the hapless fall-guy, Craig Whyte, or refused to take the Improper Registration of Rangers players seriously.
SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, was flushed out his slumber by Mr Thomson’s comments this morning, Tweeting to the reporter, “Please could you confirm who you have spoken to. thank you.”
Stewart, if you really need to ask that question, you’re in more trouble than I thought. There are several thousand CQN’ers who could help answer that one.
Campbell Ogilvie and the SFA cannot hide from the facts of this crisis. He is president of the SFA and both he and the association must acknowledge there is work to do. We can only hope Uefa finally decide to take a look.
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Ragers Administrators have applied to the Court of Session to be appointed Administrators of Ragers
@Paulmcc12
IMO It is wholly irresponsible to ask thick huns to make a pledge to a Rankers fighting fund.
As a direct result of this irresponsibility ASDA Govan has completely sold out of furniture polish!!!
Keevins loves the word sinister!!
Hail hail
The Hunfund seems to be the big news of the day….
For ‘oversEEs transactions’…must be their schooling
hhplc
Fairytales on Shortbread right now!!!
Hail hail
” I don’t know much about Everton, but I know it is a good club, always in the middle of table”
Nikica Jelavic
Just listening to Sandy Jardine on Radio Scotland. It is so embarrassing I (almost but not quite) felt sorry for him.
He really believes the threat of liquidation is over.
bournesouprecipe on 13 March, 2012 at 18:33 said:
” I don’t know much about Everton, but I know it is a good club, always in the middle of table”
Nikica Jelavic
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Sadly big Niki never struck me as the most intelligent of chaps. Good finisher, but thick as mince.
David Moyes tenth magical year at Everton, might see him win the local derby at
Anfield.
Then again maybe not.
Chick Young doing a great cheerleading job.
David Murray rounds up the succulent lambs.
So Minty Moonbeams tells us that EBT’s are legal.
Well that’s us told, put away the jelly and ice cream lads!
Something tells me HMRC don’t quite see it that way. :-)
Silence of the Succulent Lambs…
i wasnt invited to sir david’s briefing…….
did he mention the timeline for the new casino / hotel / superdome ?
Did Chick ask him about the Ronaldo bid?
On Radio Scotland – Chico has been taking to Campbell Ogilvie… Apparently in his role as company secretary he had nothing to do with contracts. So that’s fine then.
Anyone else think that this brouhaha over the Liverpool derby is a poor attempt by the SFA to deflect attention away from them? After all they’ve never been under more scrutiny what with nosey C4 journalists poking their nose into things, a nice wee Scotland v England PR story might just deflect a couple of the more gullible among scottish football!
Not us of course lol!
One has to laugh at his criticism of whyte selling the future season books……this is the guy who sold off future commercial revenue streams for not 3 but 10 years just to keep his ego fed ! Yet the thick sycophantic apologists for a media we have cannot even see it now as they tug their forelock to this discredited ‘ impressario…
Can anybody explain how an administrator who is administrating has to go and apply to administrate where he is already……..whits the word……?
Pudding
Am I wrong here, in admitting the Huns used ebt’s legal or not, has minty not just admitted to issuing 2 contracts.
So that means improperly registered players.
Is it as simple as that?
When regan took up his current role he told me campbell was a ‘good man’ who would help him find his feet in his new position…..
This was at the time of the refereeing controversy and he genuinely did not seem to appreciate the chalenges which might come his way with such loyalty…..
UEFA and being made to look stupid in the wider football world are the only ways to get to Regan……
Sandy Jardine was really entertaining doing his comedy routine on Shortbread. Due to the wage cuts and the new fighting fund there will be no liquidation…that’s that then. They’ll be debt free and back ‘where they belong shortly’. Hopefully that’s true-Division 3.
Sandy also felt they’d win the BTC. He probably envisages peace in the middle-east prior to the weekend, Sally to give up Greggs and big Victor to find a cure for the common cold…wait a minute Big Vic could do that!
and another thing, Minty Moonbeams suddenly pops up the same day RC Ogilvie is implicated in the EBT’s? You’d almost think that they were trying to hide something!
CynicalandParanoidCSC
roy croppie on 13 March, 2012 at 18:48 said:
Sandy Jardine was really entertaining doing his comedy routine on Shortbread. Due to the wage cuts and the new fighting fund there will be no liquidation…that’s that then. They’ll be debt free and back ‘where they belong shortly’. Hopefully that’s true-Division 3.
Sandy also felt they’d win the BTC. He probably envisages peace in the middle-east prior to the weekend, Sally to give up Greggs and big Victor to find a cure for the common cold…wait a minute Big Vic could do that!
Its a widely know fact that Sandy Jardine is a financial Wiz Kid,,,i believe him!!
Hail hail
According to Chic, Campbell did nothing at Ibrox. I think he should be sued for malingering.
Also this is all a whispering campaign. Tell him it’s not Spencey it’s all over CQN!
I know wee Jim reads this.
Agent Craig…,
simple but true, too simple for the convoluted hacks to grasp.
Failed!
Go on Jimbhoy
Hmm.
According to the BBC news, Paul Murray and his Knights Who Say Nim could be in control of the Huns next week
Yes.
All that complicated debt stuff and nasty tax issues. All those millions in hock. All a bad dream if you’re editorial staff on the BBC news.
Hunbelievable. Laughable amateurs. Keeping the gurning orcs happy at home.
Tomorrow – Ranger’s new superstar signing targets and pojected warchest.
Guilty!!
Go Jim – superb!!
ibleedgreenandwhite1
He really is good; I can see him at Lord Sugar’s side shortly kowtowing like he did with Whyte. Like the rest he’s now doing the fly digs.
Cut off – cop out
A verse from one of the Ould Numbers might in time prove to be applicable to the various toothless enquiries and investigations going on.
Then the news reached old Stormont , Brian Faulkner turned pale
when he heard that more men had escaped from his jail ,
said he- ” Now we’ll have an enquiry to call , and we’ll get Edmund Compton to whitewash the wall .”
Keevins the coward!!
Hail hail
Great call on Clyde
Wishay washy crap from the turkeys
RTC hits the nail on the head again!
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If Mr. Ogilvie has nothing to hide, why not make a statement himself?
had to be said, and a good tim said it, the scottish meeja have failed and complicit in the mess of scottish football, cut off, but who expected anything else,
well said JIM from Coatbridge.
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Are The Administrators Not the Overseers..
Something Fishy There..
Summa