SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie, today issued a statement through the SFA website amid a growing clamour for action over the on-going controversy over the alleged improper registration of players at Rangers during the time he was company/general secretary and director.
It will be an enormous disappointment to the BBC journalist who gave him solid backing only yesterday, to hear the president admit that he benefited from the now-infamous Employee Benefit Trust (EBT) scheme, however, this will not be news to any of you. Without wanting to be cynical, this feels like we are being fed a completely irrelevant headline while the real matter at hand was yet again not addressed. Perhaps we should be grateful the gratuitous but irrelevant headline didn’t involve the Krankies.
Ogilvie completely refused to acknowledge or address the question of improper registration of players, instead referring to an incomplete list of his duties at Rangers.
The SPL split will happen in 25 days at which point fixtures will be arranged for the top and bottom six in the league. This issue has to be investigated, reported and perhaps appealed all the way to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, before then. Kilmarnock, Aberdeen and St Mirren are currently battling for seventh place, if it was found that Rangers played improperly registered players this season, they could stand to lose enough points to demote them to the bottom half of the table.
The SFA cannot continue to sleep on the job. While Ogilvie’s position as president is important, he is a sideshow to enabling Scottish football to finish the season on time.
The SFA, the SPL, the game itself is in enormous crisis. Michel Platini, where are you? How bad does it need to get before you get involved?
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timbhoy in spain on 14 March, 2012 at 20:47 said:
Ah wiz at Celtic park in 1952.anyon e beat that?
Hail Hail.
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Re that EBT letter in The Sun, was lazy looking at it when it was first posted, don’t like to take my work home with me. Frankly unless i am being thick the drafting doesn’t even make any sense.
tooheys new on 14 March, 2012 at 21:36 said:
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Despite all of the legally document evidence to the contrary, some, not so long ago, would have us believe that Jim Farry was also an excellent and well respected administrator.
Of course, in some circles, he was.
thomthethim on 14 March, 2012 at 21:38 said:
timbhoy in spain on 14 March, 2012 at 20:47 said:
Ah wiz at Celtic park in 1952.anyon e beat that?
Hail Hail.
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1951
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Ah wiz there when it were a’ jist fields.
hottubtimemachineCSC
up_over_goal on 14 March, 2012 at 21:28 said:
p>How did you do that?
^^ dammit posted too soon.
Kudos to you guys. Some epic days in that time.
Strange thems coming out of admin was never brought up on any of the phone ins tonight!! Was mentioned on the five news.
thomthethim
Maybe we were aw standin doon the front at the Celtic end playin the gether in 1952.
I always remember I wanted to go to the 7-1 game but I wisnae allowed. 1st game I really remember vividly was the Cup final against Dunfermline in 1960 but ah remember watchin Sammy Peacock,Neilly Mochan & Sammy Baird etc,
I saw C P T’s baldy heed in 49!! lol
Kenny Torres misses another sitter!!
Up over Goal @ 21.27 – Brilliant find, Tom English is truly a visionary :-)
lochgoilhead bhoy on 14 March, 2012 at 21:41 said:
up_over_goal on 14 March, 2012 at 21:28 said:
p>How did you do that?
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<b>Have at you</b>
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dirtymac \o/ dirtymac \o/ on 14 March, 2012 at 21:41 said:
thomthethim on 14 March, 2012 at 21:38 said:
timbhoy in spain on 14 March, 2012 at 20:47 said:
I was there long before that,but I was in utero at the time.
Scrolling back.
Upovergoal 2127
Lots of interesting things in that piece from English.
Most interesting for me is this
” we must assume …”
Sums up the scottish sports press in three words.
Three words which should never be in the vocabulary of any self respecting press man.
4-1 :-(
When Stewart Regan was appointed I honestly thought this could be the change we’re looking for, now I’m not so sure.
I couldn’t believe Hugh Keevins on SSB saying the rules need to be bent to keep huns in SPL, I can’t believe I’m even thinking about this, break rules you pay end of no matter who you are.
This nutter Keevins said Dallas wad am honest man and look what happened there.
The only thing we have left now is for UEFA to intervene or hopefully for our club to be on uefa’s case.
Yesterday the SFA issued a statement saying Ogilvie knew nothing about EBT’s, then Chick Young saying the same and now today Ogilvie was a member of EBT’s, the whole thing stinks and everyone of them from Regan, Ogilvie and Doncaster are all in on it and we seriously need help on this because if we dont then I’m afraid they will try to sweep this under the carpet.
What is the chances of the BBC sports page being updated to give the rankers back 10 points
Will they never learn that putting out statements with crafted half answers will not last in the long-term
timbhoy in spain
I would gamble a fair bit on the football and the golf, as for horses, they eat at one end, and crap at the other, that is my level on the cuddys.
I read your post with much interest, but am clueless when it comes to 20/80 and the like.
In idiots terms, what should I be backing in say ew doubles and trebles, and what should I back to win ?
Sorry to be a pain :>)
I have always bet on Cheltenham for some reason, the only horse festival I do, always do the tips I get as you do.
“It’s Rangers’ good fortune, though, that Whyte’s determination is so strong.”
Tom English, April 2011.
G’night, everybody!
somebody said earlier they would love to see Drogba in a Celtic top.
No thank you
This ref has turned horrendous since Chelsea scored, one bad decision after another. Hopefully some karma comes the way of that cheat Drogba.
Drogba is a shameless diver.
20/80 is just 20 % of your stake money to win and 80 % of your stake to get a place .
Best done on Betfair.I do a lot of trading on the Chelsea game tonite I laid Napoli Then traded out at 2-0 for a good profit but I´d rather see napoli win.
hen1rik on 14 March, 2012 at 21:58 said:
When Stewart Regan was appointed I honestly thought this could be the change we’re looking for, now I’m not so sure.
I smelled a rat at the time.(oops)
Why would they have appointed an ” outsider ” if they were not sure of his compliance?
Maybe he`s on an E.B.T. as well.
If so,cooperation assured.
Ranks closed.
timbhoy in spain on 14 March, 2012 at 21:24 said:
Are you daft?
31003 on 14 March, 2012 at 22:09 said:
timbhoy in spain on 14 March, 2012 at 21:24 said:
Are you daft?
Trust me he is not daft!!
Feel a V Hes skip goal commin here.
Hope this post is as of much interest to timbhoy as much as his was to me
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I wonder what hot topic chic will dedicate his next ‘thought piece’ to?
You wonder who really manages the ‘quality’ of these………..performances.
Time for wholesale review.
TBH I never bet on Doubles & Trebles.I´d rather do a Dutch on 1 race .It´s hard enough to get the winner of 1 race never mind 2 or 3 pal.The amount of times this guy gets the winner in a dutch is un believable.And he gets loads of forecasts & tricasts up as well.Costs me a lot of money for his stuff but every penny goes to charity & I make plenty on it.
Night all God Bless.
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Sorry pal ah´m no gettin this at all.
Good on you mate!
Timbhoy-I take it a Dutch is a single?
timbhoy in spain
Thanks for that info mate, had a really pump week so far so heres hoping your man helps me back to winning ways.
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Terry on a PR exercise?As clumsy a footballer as you will see.