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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Chico Chester’s interview with RC Ogilvie in full:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc_rMiTxizg
Is Davy Moyes a celtic supporter, no i dont think so.he has to many ex rangers players on his staff,Weir,Dunkin Ferguson, Woods.anyway i dont rate him as a coach.and has mcfadden kicked a ball for them.
Some Smokey and mirrors:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2kxlZDOHeQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player
listening to chico, he has investigated the situation and found nothing
hehehe stupid huns
I take that the being a top reporter/journo/hack that Chico `Buddy’ Young is, he recorded the conversation with Ogilvie (with his knowledge) just in case he didn’t report it correctly in the MSM and it could be put on record for clarity?
Nah didn’t think so either.
HH
Goodnight one and all – thanks.
BSR
Hopefully yes, will have bus arrangements tomorrow/Thursday.
Is it true the huns have requested a few thousand of these from SCIAF ?
http://lockerz.com/s/192239373
hh
bjmac
DR Exclusive
CAMPBELL OGILVIE
I TRIED TO STOP SIR MURRAY DOING THIS.
timbhoy2 on 13 March, 2012 at 23:17 said:
Is Davy Moyes a celtic supporter,
*he’s a former Celtic player who has never said a bad word about us. I believe that he has a bluenose background although his da once taught P.E. as Anniesland Tech and he encouraged Davie tae go tae the ‘tic.
Evening all,
Will the huns be replacing their ‘last night at the proms’ music with this as the players come out onto the pitch?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjedLeVGcfE
Hail Hail
Wee Chico has a sideline, didn’t take him long to get into the act after finding out about the huns’ donations:
http://www.cheekotheclown.co.uk/
Dupey dupey doo…
exchanging glances… rangers in the…
Morning bhoys from a warm hun free cave.
Been busy today.
Not had a chance to read back, What Have I Missed ?????
Off topic.
Just taken delivery of the monster Samsung Galaxy Note: what a phone!!!!
As a long-term Applite I am feeling dirty but I like it…
I get a feeling that the group who set up the fighting fund will end up with custard pie all over their faces.
Cheeko the Clown is a Birthday Party Clown, Children’s Entertainer, and Magician, based in Scotland. As one of the top children’s entertainers in the UK, he has made a number of appearances on radio and TV.
As posted on his website!
!!Bada Bing!! Kano, 23:00
Certain things need to be confirmed before we can move on to the next stage and a lot of hard work is going in to doing just that
With all the events that have unravelled of late I can’t help compare it to Dantes `Inferno’ whereby Hell, is depicted as nine circles of suffering located within the Earth (Ibrox).
The Circles are –
Limbo
Lust
Gluttony
Greed
Anger
Heresy
Violence
Fraud
Treachery
I think we are visiting the last circle just now!
HH
hailholyceltic on 13 March, 2012 at 23:25 said:
Source good for this?
rangers are not dead yet, but with any chance they will be soon, very soon indeed.
i’d rather strike a deal with the other 10 spl clubs than get into bed with that lot.
we should fight tooth and nail to make sure any newco club that evolves is not allowed straight back into spl
if they have been playing unregistered players they should be punished
change or die, now if rangers lived by that would we be discussing their demise?
i think of celtic as a Scottish club of proud Irish routes, the ethos of which is, all people are welcome, you know the people’s club, the underdog (culturally speaking). we were inclusive before the word was invented, we should all be proud of what our club stands for, i am.
celtic is more than a football club, she is hope
row z \o/ (O) whatever part of my club is dependent on rangers I am willing to lose! on 13 March, 2012 at 23:08 said:
Thought provoking stuff.
row z \o/ (O) whatever part of my club is dependent on rangers I am willing to lose! on 13 March, 2012 at 23:08 said:
+++++
I’m a (or was a) Protestant Defender in the mould of Billy McNeill, but not of the ilk of J*hn Gr*ig.
;-)
slidingtackleCSC
Sale Sharks owner Brian Kennedy also confirms in tomorrow’s Express that he will table an unconditional offer for #Rangers this week.
could kennedy be thinking of starting up a superleague club in glasgow and looking for a stadium
Im keeping an eye on c4 news,this may be the final expose of the corruption within the SFA regarding them.This is all playing out on so many fronts that each protagonist cant keep up with what to comment without opening another can of worms.This does appear to be deep rooted premeditated cheating involving financial mismanagement of the Sfa,BOS,Spl,Referrees association( by there marking down of referrees involved in favourable decisions re celtic) and collusion from all involved..All done by the continued hatred of all things irish in this country.
1967 was the precursor for all of this.
THE EXILED TIM on 13 March, 2012 at 23:29 said:
Rangers are still gubbed.
Although the MSM are trying a hard as they can to say it isn’t so.
But it is.
Cambell Ogilvy says he didn’t know about the EBT or two contracts, he was only Company Secretary don’t you know, ceremonial position, something to do with goats, I think.
Actually wee Chico did say a Murray company took care of all the admin of RFC(before admin) so perhaps SDM knew plenty?
Rumour from Etims Celtic in touch with UEFA about the situation.
Apart from that nowt;-)
Night from me.
dirtymac \o/ on 13 March, 2012 at 23:34 said:
Billy was a Tim.
:-)
THE EXILED TIM on 13 March, 2012 at 23:29 said:
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Briefly,
The hvns supporters have been sending paypal payments to a clown (Yes, real clown with a blue nose) from England. Mix up with websites haha
C4 reporter doing a bit of digging on the sfa after they called him a liar earlier, he’s got the rest of the week of to investigate.
And sneevins was cutting fellow Tims off left ,right and centre, all with decent points.
HH
R I P Jinky. You were the bestuzz!!
Wonder how that Ch4 guy will get on? all the best to him
TET,
the best bit about today is pauls article, the sfa called main stream media journalist a liar, thats enough to attract the interest of exactly who they dont want looking at this.
stupid huns hehehe
Doc/Palacio67
Thanks for that, I wondered what the clown reference was, ah well clowns will be clowns :>)
So RC Ogilvie has spoken, he knows nada, didn’t expect anything else, he will be hounded going by Paul;’s leader, yer man Alex Thompson is a quality reporter, I hope he does qhat the scottish jurnos should have done, they have no shame, just like their masters.
Evening,
travelling all wekk, need some help bhoys.
Can anyone get me 2 boys tickets, or any tickets for Sunday.
2 short for the nephews and if i was in glasgow tomorrow would be up queing.
Keep me in mind if anyone ends up with spairs.
So any way, Ally McCoist drove into Murray Park this morning , tooting his horn , but when he pulled the hanbrake on the doors fell off the motor
Macjay
Who told you that??
canamalar
I read Paul’s leader.
Stupid huns, if brains were chocolate, they couldn’t fill a smartie.
They have picked on the right bloke to piss off :>)))))))
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 13 March, 2012 at 23:39 said:
BRTH has mentioned that as something our board should be looking at – a number of months ago (in addition to our football)…you could be onto something…
hh
bjmac
Read the article in the Express, regarding Kennedy. The boy who wrote it needs to get a spell checker. Funny old thing is that the unconditional offer involves a conditional CVA. Usual tosh, wait and see. CW still a major player here as he owns 85% of the shares.
Eve all.
Emdae tune into ssb the night? keevins wiz takin the calls. He’s a right wee grabbitt runt!!!