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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Keevins uses the word sinister again,,,MMmmm
Hail hail
Canamalar
agreed – no answers to give so they gave it the old ” legal reasons” cut off
Well done Jim
Keevins will soon be bringing in Scooby Doo and the gang to sort out these ‘sinister’ rumblings…
The SFA are protecting Ogilvie
Excuse if I’m a bit slow but we really are approaching that moment when deep throat gives you the evidence that blows the lid of the cover up
What Ogilvie knows has the potential to unleash hell and the SFA have a duty to be transparent on this after all its taxpayers money we are talking about here
Joe Public (the people) may want to ask him about the 2 contracts on record or preferably under oath
If it smells its usually rotten csc
Dermot Desmond reflects
via El Hudd
Auldheid:
Don’t think it has anything to do with Protestantism to be honest…many truly great Christian people are protestants-a few examples:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Karl Barth
John Bunyan
Kierkegaard
Chesterton (later converted to Catholicism)
Billy Graham ( who has done a huge amount for charity)
Jurgen Moltmann
John Wycliffe…many of these and many others have influenced my own thinking and many thousands of Catholics…
I really cannot believe that anyone in the Orange Lodge or who is anti-catholic is a true Protestant (in the strict Christian sense of the word).
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Right a Show of Hands..
Who on CQN..has Told People in the Past.. NOT to Listen to Superscoreboard..
But has Listened to it Every Night for the Last 21 Nights..
Summa
The begging bowl out to the fans.
Truly, the king has come down the Cadger’s Road.
I had some ‘sinister rumblings’ earlier but imodium seemed to sort it!
Hail Hail Jim Coatbridge!
Make a public statement, Campbell.
You know you want to.
It’s going to look really bad for you later.
C’mon.
You’re the head honcho, so hiding behind Chico ?
Well, that’s just sooooo poor.
pigalle
When keevins denies making statements, people should simply refer him to the clyde replay facility, and tell him its on record, no amount of back tracking or revisionism can admonish him from his own words.
hehe stupid huns
Murray and Irvine are having one last throw of the dice, or closing their eyes real tight,go to sleep and it will all be away when they wake up.Keevins is a soup taker,cut Jim off during a very accurate summary of the huns and the lapdogs.Then rubbished the guy when he couldnt answer back.Fearless Scottish journalism.
bournesouprecipe on 13 March, 2012 at 19:01 said:
Best one yet, over on FF they think it’s all a Timmy conspiracy, would that it were!!
Summ…,
its never been more fun
Wonkyradar
The very word itself, ‘protestant’ reflected their ‘anti Catholicism’.
I would go so far as to say that it is intrinsic in their make up and has been evident since inception.
clyde been Tommy’ed again
Jim from Coatbridge is really Tommy Doo Lally from Glasgow – Keevins
Ooops should be Summa
Why play the loaded dice game that is a radio phone-in.
Summa of Sammi…. on 13 March, 2012 at 19:02 said:
Have listened 3-4 times the last couple of weeks,have never told what to do or what to think,I love Big Sammi and have stuck up for him from day one,
Am I forgiven?
Starry.
They’ve blamed everyone, and the compliant media have filed in behind follow following.
Funny, how Hugh Adam is off the radar?
That should be ,never told anyone what to do or what to think ,on this site,apologies.
Canamalar
Cheers
So a listener come on to ask a question, keevins decides none of his questions should be addressed, but the caller must submit to keevins questions.
Great few articles Paul.
As someone said earlier, this needs exposure to the British and European media. Keep it high on the agenda. This is THE real story, not the liquidation.
Campbell has damned himself by his silence and an own goal by the SFA today in their dealings with Channel 4. Serves them right,, a complete bunch of amatuers showing that corporate governance means nothing in some parts of Scotland. (RBS, RFCIA, Murray, HBOS etc… )
Lubo.
The Battered Bunnet on 13 March, 2012 at 17:16 said:
Brilliant!!
Summa of sammi,
I have started listening since this joyous occasion started, I have to admit I have also started buying the Daily Ranger aswell although that will stop soon, still waiting for the cracked Hun crest In that rag, they’d put a cracked Celtic one if we ran out of pies at a reserve game.
Is it a mason thing…. The reason why corporate governance appears to be ignored in some organisations in Scotland in particular, or is it just arrogance.
Lubo.
Guy comes on the radio, rips the assembled journalists a new one on thier failings to report on corruption and sectarianism ,is then cut off,a few minutes later he is branded a liar and his mental capacity is questioned.
Sinister?
Very sinister on CQN tonight!!
Another belter from WBMI “he will sit week in week in out on the bench”
Friday 13th
I’m not superstitious, and it was an uneventful day today. I feel all right, and my weight is 58.5 kgs.
I was not so tired today, but my back gets sore now and again sitting in the bed. I didn’t get the Irish News, which makes me think there is probably something in it that they don’t wish me to see, but who cares. Fr Murphy was in tonight for a few minutes.
The Screws had a quick look around my cell today when I was out getting water. They are always snooping. I heard reports of men beaten up during a wing shift …
Nothing changes here.
Sean McKenna (the former hunger-striker) is back in H-4, apparently still a bit shaky but alive and still recovering, and hopefully he will do so to the full.
Mhúscail mé leis an gealbháin ar maidin agus an t-aon smaointe amháin i mo cheann – seo chugat lá eile a Roibeard. Cuireann é sin amhran a scríobh mé; bhfad ó shin i ndúil domsa.
Seo é cib é ar bith.
D’ éirigh mé ar maidin mar a tháinig an coimheádóir,
Bhuail sé mo dhoras go trom’s gan labhairt.
Dhearc mé ar na ballai, ‘S shíl mé nach raibh mé beo,
Tchítear nach n-imeoidh an t-iffrean seo go deo.
D’oscail an doras ’s níor druideadh é go ciúin,
Ach ba chuma ar bith mar nach raibheamar inár suan.
Chuala mé éan ’s ni fhaca mé geal an lae,
Is mian mór liom go raibh me go doimhin foai,
Ca bhfuil mo smaointi ar laethe a chuaigh romhainn,
S cá bhfuil an tsaol a smaoin mé abhí sa domhain,
Ni chluintear mo bhéic, ’s ní fheictear mar a rith mo dheor,
Nuair a thigeann ar lá aithíocfaidh mé iad go mor.
Canaim é sin leis an phort Siun Ní Dhuibir.
Translated this reads as follows:
I awoke with the sparrows this morning and the only thought in my head was: here comes another day, Bobby — reminding me of a song I once wrote a long time ago.
This is it anyway:
I arose this morning as the Screw came,
He thumped my door heavily without speaking,
I stared at the walls, and thought I was dead,
It seems that this hell will never depart.
The door opened and it wasn’t closed gently,
But it didn’t really matter, we weren’t asleep.
I heard a bird and yet didn’t see the dawn of day,
Would that I were deep in the earth.
Where are my thoughts of days gone by,
And where is the life I once thought was in the world.
My cry is unheard and my tears flowing unseen,
When our day comes I shall repay them dearly.
I sing this to the tune Siun Ní Dhuibir.
Bhí na heiníní ag ceiliúracht inniú. Chaith ceann de na buachaillí arán amach as an fhuinneog, ar a leghad bhí duine éigin ag ithe. Uaigneach abhí mé ar feadh tamaill ar tráthnóna beag inniú ag éisteacht leis na préacháin ag screadáil agus ag teacht abhaile daobhtha. Dá gcluinfinn an fhuiseog álainn, brisfeadh sí mo chroí.
Anois mar a scríobhaim tá an corrcrothar ag caoineadh mar a théann siad tharam. Is maith liom na heiníní.
Bhuel caithfidh mé a dul mar má scríobhain níos mó ar na heiníní seo beidh mo dheora ag rith ’s rachaidh mo smaointi ar ais chuig, an t-am nuair abhí mé ógánach, b’iad na laennta agus iad imithe go deo anois, ach thaitin siad liom agus ar a laghad níl dearmad deánta agam orthu, ta siad i mo chroí — oíche mhaith anois.
(Translated, this reads as follows:)
The birds were singing today. One of the boys threw bread out of the window. At least somebody was eating!
I was lonely for a while this evening, listening to the crows caw as they returned home. Should I hear the beautiful lark, she would rent my heart. Now, as I write, the odd curlew mournfully calls as they fly over. I like the birds.
Well, I must leave off, for if I write more about the birds my tears will fall and my thoughts return to the days of my youth.
They were the days, and gone forever now. But I enjoyed them. They are in my heart — good night, now.
CAMPBELL OGILVY !!! Stand down now you corrupt manekin-
Keevins said they used to have fun on SSB but not now.Thats what happens when new media show how compliant you have been,and can do a better job.
bournesouprecipe on 13 March, 2012 at 19:11 said:
Hugh Adam hereafter known as “The Prophet” no self respecting journalist would want to talk to him would they???
Offt Spew Keevins questioning refs integrity by saying he’d stand by Stewwy McCall’s words that the mullet never swore towards Craig Thompson on Sunday.
TBB great post earlier!
Caught Radio Shortbread on the way home – car crash radio, which is worrying as I was driving at the time!
Much righteous indignation at EUFA ans EPL and the broadcasting of games – I think there were glad to get onto a safe topic, but obviously dont get irony.
Chick Young’s stumbling over Ogilivie’s position was hilarious, it seemed to me he was reading from a statement, even Jim Spence had him on the rack for a while.
Once the Channel 4 guy gets in about this it will lead to all sorts of interesting places.
Any way nothing to worry about Chick Young seems to think they will win the BTC and then be seen as being smart in the handling of their tax affairs. I wonder who he has been talking to recently……
HH