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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obonfanti1888 on 14 March, 2012 at 19:26 said:
I know. It is from CNN. I had to post just for the Speirs quote.
Here is the rest if you can be bothered.
http://edition.cnn.com/2012/03/14/sport/football/football-rangers-finance-europe/index.html?eref=rss_sport&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+rss%2Fedition_sport+%28RSS%3A+Sport%29
bournesouprecipe on 14 March, 2012 at 17:53 said:
and heavy sprinkles of hundreds&thousands ;-))
Apparently both teams will wear away strips on Sunday because the hoops are too much like their blue and white stripes.
SFL decision.
Oh yes, you did
The Honest Cover-up on 14 March, 2012 at 18:49 said:
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on 14 March, 2012 at 18:19 said:
Worth remembering that TWO seperate SFA internal investigations found that Farry had done nothing wrong with regard to Cadete’s registration.
Presumably the men conducting the investigation back then were every bit as “honourable and honest” as Ogilvie.
Were it not for the stubbornness of wee Fergus, this issue would have been swept under the carpet also. What a testament to McCann that, long before the days of new media, he was able to single handedly nail the SFA over Farry.
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To be honest I’d forgotten about the two SFA investigations into Farry and the outcome of them. That would strengthen further anyone who wanted to confront Keevins on this issue.
If Mr Platini was serious about financial doping then where the hell is he?
How many people work for UEFA and they really should watch their own back
before they get accused of being complicit in all this. The SFA have always been
proud of they’re relationship with the governing body.
So the administrators forgot to administrate them. I honestly thought it wasn’t possible for this process to seem any more farcical than it has been to date but Duff and Phelps somehow manage to surpass themselves time and time again.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-17373292
haha class even if it was from 1 of that mob
HK “I object, I object to this Rrredeem yourselves term,..the scottish press has nothing to Rrrredeem themselves for”
Caller “Well hold on Hugh, we were told that the new owner was a man of enormous wealth with planes and castles etc,…..it turns out he hasn’t got a brass farthing! so I think you do infact need to redeem yourselves”
“Even if he is completely innocent, and I don’t doubt he is, it doesn’t look good.” –
Michael Grant on Campbell Ogilvie.
jdcgow
Mort,19:26
No problem.
birthday of David Taylor today
wonder which law firm he worked for
and if he was ever involved in these high-level shenanigans
Torontony
Tony there’s me worrying about there being no gym aswel. Will have to fill the bag with hoops tops next time i’m home. Think there was plenty photos taken so will mail you when i get them.
Voguepunter
If only you had seen the second goal, was very Cadete like! Great night. HH
The fact that Daryl King is now denying he ever said RFC players had two contracts when he quite clearly did shows you exactly what we are up against, journalists who are willing to go against their own previous opinion just because the dullard finally clocked on to what it actually meant!
Bet DK regrets that bitterly, probably thought we would have forgotten all about it- of course he didn’t count on the internet bampots!! If someone as thick as him knew this (well, eventually knew it) then you can bet HMRC know it and then some!
Fernando Torres now has more skelf’s on his e̶r̶s̶e̶ bottom, than goals.
Zadoc the Priest
Threesie Podium?
I think keevins is starting to find this all rather ‘taxing’ …..poor soul…….. callers are starting to ignore his sarcasm……..LOL….!!!!
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on 14 March, 2012 at 19:35 said:
No doubt Keevins would just sneer “oh for goodness sake…it was 15 years ago…Farry was removed so the right action was taken in the end etc”
Someone joked here I think that Fergus should be hired as a consultant/advisor to help the club deal with this issue. I honestly would be delighted if that were to be the case and would be happy to see the Bunnet paid handsomely for his input.
Having said that, I think that Ogilvie is just clinging on desperately, much like Dallas and McDonald tried to in vain. He is probably just hoping that his pals in the media will make this just go away. It won’t though. Paul67, PhilMac, Alex Thomson and many others will see to that.
Good old Richard……keevins on the rack, so cuts him off……can’t take what he gives…….
OG Rafferty
Do you mean the SPL Board Members:
The current SPL Board is made up of Ralph Topping (SPL Chairman), Neil Doncaster (SPL Chief Executive), Eric Riley (Celtic FC), Stephen Thompson (Dundee United FC), Derek Weir (Motherwell FC) and Steven Brown (St Johnstone FC).
How can any of them undertake such review of Rangers – hardly independent?
Or is it others?
HH
TLK
OG Rafferty
Have you seen this:
Andy Goram’s weekly wage in 1996 was £1000 as declared to a court
Mort
Keevins answers Richard bak, 5 minutes after he cut him off…..!!! …..KING FUD, indeed…..!!!……you got to him, Richard….!!
Flanders is a mealy-mouthed gammon headed two faced janus and a panhandling circumventer expert in prevarication…if I rrrooooooolll my vowels long enough then people will think i sound intelligent and pretentious…allegedly!
Maybe Ricardo fae Cumbernauld is an admirable Crichton like polymath Hugh! Whit a FUD!
Mort, 19:46
I knew of it but hadn’t a link. Keep them coming my good man
So it is too much to ask a “sports journalist” to know the rules of the game and association
Hugh, I’m afraid you just aren’t up to this job. You must know that. Time to retire.
bournesouprecipe on 14 March, 2012 at 19:37 said:
“Even if he is completely innocent, and I don’t doubt he is, it doesn’t look good.” –
Michael Grant on Campbell Ogilvie.
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Even if he is completely innocent he is going to find out the universal law that mud sticks.
Appreciate the phone-in summaries since I just can’t stand to listen to them myself!!!
keevins, being abusive to the first caller not to have a go
keevins just told a caller to “SHUT UP”…….he has lost the plot……even the young lady asked him to be polite ……brilliant…!!!………..
wonkyradar on 14 March, 2012 at 19:48 said:
Poor Hugh. The frog in the saucepan that the has just had the temperature turned up. Time he hopped it.
Keevins has lost it , he just told a guy to shut up . Why is he allowed to tell people to shut it but cut people off when he doesn’t like their attitude .
just got tickets for the bbc radio five discussion on rangers on monday night. i see there will be no refreshments at the pearce institute. guess i’ll be bringing my own jelly and ice cream
The Lizard King, 19:45
That’s the official line as of yesterday but it is worth chasing up… so tell me their connections please
The way Keevins arrogantly spoke to and told Tom…”…so you can shut up…”
He should be booted off the airwaves.
To paraphrase what he said himself, he has took a pounding tonight. You know what you can do Hugh, do what rfc (ia) do not do and walk away. Absolute disgrace. At least Sheila pulled him up…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Does anyone have a link to the redacted contract in the Scottish Sun?
Paul67 (et al).
Would a loan to a player from an EBT (charging the player a commercial rate of interest) constitute a “payment” under the Scottish Football rules?
Apologies if this has already been addressed elsewhere / already.
Arguably it only becomes a payment if it is waived? What happens if that is after the player has retired?
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 14 March, 2012 at 19:09 said:
jimtim on 14 March, 2012 at 18:57 said:
Even JT has started to change his tune on a Div3 start for Newco. I’ve posted on this earlier.
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Sorry ANLH i missed that , jesus he didnt last long . Can we turn to no-one
jimtim