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Stewart Regan today gave a welcome update on the SFA’s on-going investigation into Rangers.  In response to Hugh Adam’s comments in today’s Daily Mail, Regan said:

“We are, however, aware of the most recent allegations made against Rangers FC today by a former director of the club. We shall investigate this matter thoroughly before making any further comment.”

SFA president, Campell Ogilvie, was general secretary and director of Rangers from 1978 until 2005. News broke about HMRC’s dispute over Rangers Employment Benefit Trust in 2010, you knew then, I knew then, the SFA knew then, but Ogilvie was subsequently elevated to the role of SFA president in 2011.  He is still on the SFA board.

We have waited almost two years the hear the SFA would investigate this matter. Now, with all the old certainties crumbling down around them, they realise they must act.

Can I be the first to congratulate Dundee FC on winning the Scottish Cup in 2003.

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  1. miki67 on

    I go away for 36 hrs. and it all blows up! Feck me….thae Rankers are baw deep in the crud…and a tidal wave of manure is on its way…happy days!

     

    This is like the best serial docu-drama you ever saw. An almost daily expose of jaw-droppin’ revelations. Manna fae Heaven!

  2. hen1rik on

    Lads I know what your saying about winning it there but imagine winning it at our own park, we havent won it in 3 years and to win it at paradise would be the icing on the cake.

     

     

    I dont know about you Bhoys but watching that clip of Neil on YouTube with something inside so strong, it brings a tear to my eye.

  5. Fortunes Favour Mibbes on

    hen1rik @t 01:10

     

     

    Course it does, Amigo.

     

     

    Big party at CP this year :D I couldn’t renew the ST this year so will have to miss it. But also knew that it was a good sign !!! :)))) I should just stay away !! :)

  8. petec on

    My error was I was putting in the main comment from the song.

     

     

    Punish the guilty. The above crazy hun video was what was spit out by Youtube. A reason for everything. ;)

     

     

    Full name.

     

     

    The Time Frequency – Retribution.

  12. petec on

    Árd Macha

     

     

    I hope you and your boy get tickets for Ibrox m8.

     

     

    The party is the following week but the Irish should be the majority in the Broomloan IMO.

  13. topkat on

    better to win it at paradise………..safer and better standard of music 60k singing hand in hand oops……by the way if they are liquitdated can they appeal ?…..or is this the one moment where none of their shit will be taken

  14. TopCorner on

    Nakagod

     

    thankyou for your replies of earlier

     

    i hope the good times roll for you sir

     

    good to have your input

     

    TC

  16. Árd Macha on

    petec on 3 March, 2012 at 01:21 said:,

     

     

    Thank you for your kind thoughts but unlikely for me and the boys.

     

     

    kickinthenakas said to me the other day that it was great being a Tim. That statement meant everything to me. My wife is still amazed as to how good people like that look after each other.

     

     

    Árd Macha

  18. jtsTICks on

    Morning all,

     

     

    I have not scrolled back – so I am sure others will have commented plenty about Hugh Adam’s comments in The Mail. I for one was not surprised about the news that dodgy payments and contracts stemmed way back beyond the HMRC enquiry window. However it was these words from Shug that I found particularly staggering; ‘You knew it was cheating but some of them not only hoped but believed it was above board.’ I hope someone stuck that article under Alex Salmond’s four chins and asked him to comment now about HMRC being lenient? What crumbs do the media have to continue the case for their future place in the SPL? Or the ‘we need a strong Rangers campaign’? Eh – why? to protect the dignity of a club; who championed bigotry by example, whose fans have continually shamed themselves by their behaviour everywhere they take themselves, by cheating the rules of the governing body, by avoiding tax and thus not supporting the services our taxes support. I could go on and on, but will sum this up with a reminder from Mr Adam – ‘you knew it was cheating’!!! So whatever the ‘big tax case’ verdict, we know that things were in place that were contrary to the rules of the league and of general sporting fair play! Aka Cheating! The ‘we are ra peeple’ – ‘untouchable by anyone’ attitude sickens us all but it will be what kills them in the end and those in the media who served them and it! Good riddance to the lot of you!

     

     

    Ahhh I feel better now – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=–hNg4_WuZY :O)

     

     

    Hail hail,

     

     

    sTICks

  22. PJBhoynyc on

    As each twist and turn in this tragic comedy unfolds, one of Paul67’s favorite phrases resonates: Cognitive Dissonance…

     

     

    Hugh Adam describes it.

     

    The Old Media practice it.

     

    Rangers supporters are the personification of it.

     

     

    The bottom line, to use an apt phrase, is that power corrupts and Absolute power corrupts absolutely. When you take into account the events of the last few years, by the MIB, the media and the SFA. Cognitive Dissonance reigns supreme in Scottish football.

     

     

    Pandoras Box has been opened.

     

     

    Roll on the Denoument….

     

    Spring Cleaning calls.

  24. petec on

    Árd Macha,

     

     

    There will be games after the split.

     

     

    If you are ok with being anywhere in the ground, I’d like to buy you and your Bhoys tickets for a game.

  25. jc2 on

    jtsticks

     

     

    just going to bed BUT

     

     

    I am on FF just now they are looking for ideas and people to man the bins so to speak.

     

     

    I know you have previous collecting for good causes on here should i put you forward for the Zoo tommorow

  29. pigalle on

    Took the unusual step of tuning into Clyde this evening.

     

     

    Laughs, there were many.

     

     

    The sad simple souls phoning in to share their `’save our club’ schemes

     

    were truly tragic. Almost felt for them.

     

     

    Still, they have The Blue Knights.

     

     

    Surely THE most diabolical dumb name ever.

     

     

    Bar none.

     

     

    The huns just can’t get anything right these days.

     

     

    This whole thing proves that they actually are far mair totally stupider than us.

     

     

    QED or somethin’

     

     

    Karma or what ?

     

     

    pigalle

  30. Árd Macha on

    petec on 3 March, 2012 at 01:58 said:

     

     

    That’s a beautiful gesture a chara, but a meet up and a drink would suffice for me and my boys.

     

     

    Árd Macha

  31. jtsTICks on

    JC2

     

    My charitable and missionary work has no boundaries so please volunteer me. I am away to practice my calls to the bears! E.G – ‘Keep ra big hoose open’, ‘Penny for ra arcade’, ‘Big Hoosue’ etc :o)

     

    Hail hail my friend

     

    sTICks

  33. petec on

    Árd Macha

     

     

    A drink is out the question as the wee man is 11. ;)

     

     

    I’d just like to show my appreciation and Amplify what the Irish Celts mean to Celtic.

  34. Árd Macha on

    Non-football post, but I make no excuses for re-producing Bobby Sands’ diary in his first three days of his hunger strike culminating in his death and the death of his comrades.Sunday 1st

     

    I am standing on the threshold of another trembling world. May God have mercy on my soul.

     

    My heart is very sore because I know that I have broken my poor mother’s heart, and my home is struck with unbearable anxiety. But I have considered all the arguments and tried every means to avoid what has become the unavoidable: it has been forced upon me and my comrades by four-and-a-half years of stark inhumanity.

     

    I am a political prisoner. I am a political prisoner because I am a casualty of a perennial war that is being fought between the oppressed Irish people and an alien, oppressive, unwanted regime that refuses to withdraw from our land.

     

    I believe and stand by the God-given right of the Irish nation to sovereign independence, and the right of any Irishman or woman to assert this right in armed revolution. That is why I am incarcerated, naked and tortured.

     

    Foremost in my tortured mind is the thought that there can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign, oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.

     

    I believe I am but another of those wretched Irishmen born of a risen generation with a deeply rooted and unquenchable desire for freedom. I am dying not just to attempt to end the barbarity of H-Block, or to gain the rightful recognition of a political prisoner, but primarily because what is lost in here is lost for the Republic and those wretched oppressed whom I am deeply proud to know as the ‘risen people’.

     

    There is no sensation today, no novelty that October 27th brought. (The starting date of the original seven man hunger-strike) The usual Screws were not working. The slobbers and would-be despots no doubt will be back again tomorrow, bright and early.

     

    I wrote some more notes to the girls in Armagh today. There is so much I would like to say about them, about their courage, determination and unquenchable spirit of resistance. They are to be what Countess Markievicz, Anne Devlin, Mary Ann McCracken, Marie MacSwiney, Betsy Gray, and those other Irish heroines are to us all. And, of course, I think of Ann Parker, Laura Crawford, Rosemary Bleakeley, and I’m ashamed to say I cannot remember all their sacred names.

     

    Mass was solemn, the lads as ever brilliant. I ate the statutory weekly bit of fruit last night. As fate had it, it was an orange, and the final irony, it was bitter. The food is being left at the door. My portions, as expected, are quite larger than usual, or those which my cell-mate Malachy is getting.

     

    Monday 2nd

     

    Much to the distaste of the Screws we ended the no-wash protest this morning. We moved to ‘B’ wing, which was allegedly clean.

     

    We have shown considerable tolerance today. Men are being searched coming back from the toilet. At one point men were waiting three hours to get out to the toilet, and only four or five got washed, which typifies the eagerness (sic) of the Screws to have us off the no-wash. There is a lot of petty vindictiveness from them.

     

    I saw the doctor and I’m 64 kgs. I’ve no problems.

     

    The priest, Fr John Murphy, was in tonight. We had a short talk. I heard that my mother spoke at a parade in Belfast yesterday and that Marcella cried. It gave me heart. I’m not worried about the numbers of the crowds. I was very annoyed last night when I heard Bishop Daly’s statement (issued on Sunday, condemning the hunger-strike). Again he is applying his double set of moral standards. He seems to forget that the people who murdered those innocent Irishmen on Derry’s Bloody Sunday are still as ever among us; and he knows perhaps better than anyone what has and is taking place in H-Block.

     

    He understands why men are being tortured here — the reason for criminalisation. What makes it so disgusting, I believe, is that he agrees with that underlying reason. Only once has he spoken out, of the beatings and inhumanity that are commonplace in H-Block.

     

    I once read an editorial, in late ‘78, following the then Archbishop O Fiaich’s ’sewer pipes of Calcutta’ statement. It said it was to the everlasting shame of the Irish people that the archbishop had to, and I paraphrase, stir the moral conscience of the people on the H-Block issue. A lot of time has passed since then, a lot of torture, in fact the following year was the worst we experienced.

     

    Now I wonder who will stir the Cardinal’s moral conscience…

     

    Bear witness to both right and wrong, stand up and speak out. But don’t we know that what has to be said is ‘political’, and it’s not that these people don’t want to become involved in politics, it’s simply that their politics are different, that is, British.

     

    My dear friend Tomboy’s father died today. I was terribly annoyed, and it has upset me.

     

    I received several notes from my family and friends. I have only read the one from my mother — it was what I needed. She has regained her fighting spirit — I am happy now.

     

    My old friend Seanna (Walsh, a fellow blanket man) has also written.

     

    I have an idea for a poem, perhaps tomorrow I will try to put it together.

     

    Every time I feel down I think of Armagh, and James Connolly. They can never take those thoughts away from me.

     

    Tuesday 3rd

     

    I’m feeling exceptionally well today. (It’s only the third day, I know, but all the same I’m feeling great.) I had a visit this morning with two reporters, David Beresford of The Guardian and Brendan O Cathaoir of The Irish Times. Couldn’t quite get my flow of thoughts together. I could have said more in a better fashion.

     

    63 kgs today, so what?

     

    A priest was in. Feel he’s weighing me up psychologically for a later date. If I’m wrong I’m sorry — but I think he is. So I tried to defuse any notion of that tonight. I think he may have taken the point. But whether he accepts it, will be seen. He could not defend my onslaught on Bishop Daly — or at least he did not try.

     

    I wrote some notes to my mother and to Mary Doyle in Armagh; and will write more tomorrow. The boys are now all washed. But I didn’t get washed today. They were still trying to get men their first wash.

     

    I smoked some ‘bog-rolled blows’ today, the luxury of the Block!

     

    They put a table in my cell and are now placing my food on it in front of my eyes. I honestly couldn’t give a damn if they placed it on my knee. They still keep asking me silly questions like, ‘Are you still not eating?’

     

    I never got started on my poem today, but I’ll maybe do it tomorrow. The trouble is I now have more ideas.

     

    Got papers and a book today. The book was Kipling’s Short Stories with an introduction of some length by W. Somerset Maugham. I took an instant dislike to the latter on reading his comment on the Irish people during Kipling’s prime as a writer: ‘It is true that the Irish were making a nuisance of themselves.’ Damned too bad, I thought, and bigger the pity it wasn’t a bigger nuisance! Kipling I know of, and his Ulster connection. I’ll read his stories tomorrow.

     

    Ag rá an phaidrín faoi dhó achan lá atá na buachaillí anois. Níl aon rud eile agam anocht. Sin sin. (Translated this reads as follows: The boys are now saying the rosary twice every day. I have nothing else tonight. That’s all.)

  35. petec on

    A meetup would be good and I would insist on buying tickets just because your outlay just to get to the Awesome Ground will be very hefty anyway.

     

     

    :)

  36. tarrant on

    Hugh Adams. I remember that interview coming out 10 years ago (Feb 2002 – midway through MON’s second season) and being largely ignored, when its content was literally sensational – the self-proclaimed “biggest club in Scotland” was being run atrociously; had proved to be a disastrous investment for ENIC and Dave King; had surveyed its own (presumably receptive) support about its worldwide reach only to find that it had little support beyond Scots and Ulster Scots; even worse he felt that Celtic did truly have a wide-ranging support that they did not; credited “Fergus” (note the first name reference) for his professional approach [and the further, implicit, criticism of those who had not run his club the way Fergus had run his].

     

     

    That article stands alone as one that criticises the way Rangers were run as a business. There were other journalists and articles who criticised Rangers’ tactics and signings, Glenn Gibbons one that comes to mind as a regular contrarian; and Graham Spiers frequently laid into the element of the huns support that habitually disgraced them (ie, most of them – sadly Speirs’ candid reporting didn;t extend to the “full” truth).

     

     

    They have cheated, and cheated for a long time. It is correct to strip them of any titles or trophies they won during any period they were shown to have cheated.

     

     

    They have been financially mismanaged. It is correct that they repay the debts they accrued during that period of financial mismanagement.

     

     

    These actions may have a detrimental effect on Scottish football. This detrimental effect may be less or greater than Hugh Keevins predicts. Tough shit shug. Read the above and deduce the following:

     

     

    FACT: The huns’ cheating and the huns’ financial mismanagement has already had a detrimental effect on Scottish football.

     

     

    Several times in the last few months I have thought of Denning’s famous “appalling vista” comment about the convictions of the Birmingham Six – papraphrased as: “if what these convicted murdering bombers say is true, then that means that huge numbers of people in our law enforcement and judicial system are corrupt, and that the system allows them to get away with it”.

     

     

    Welcome to Scottish football.

     

     

    I’m quite inebriated, so excuse any misspellings:

     

    FCUK THEM. LET THE CHEATING FCUKERS DIE.

  40. petec on

    Árd Macha on 3 March, 2012 at 02:21

     

     

    Unreal and so chilling.

     

     

    “As fate had it, it was an orange, and the final irony, it was bitter”

     

     

    My Dad is still an ornotholgist, and I know a lot of birds purely because my Dad was so keen on observing Gods Creation.

     

     

    The tide is turning in our respect but Evil is working elsewhere feverishly, unfortunately.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOCaYEV3jDc

  41. Nakagod on

    Grumble grumble,

     

     

     

    I’ve noticed since i’ve started posting again that the blog is extremely ‘cliquey’

     

     

    I must be a hun for saying that right?

     

     

    HH

  42. petec on

    Nakagod,

     

     

    What do you have to say?

     

     

    The blog goes fast at times and it is difficult to keep up with 1 conversation never mind 2.

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