Rangers administrators have today gone to the Court of Session in an attempt to overturn the recent disciplinary action imposed on the club by the SFA. Paul Clark said:
“The Club started proceedings at the Court of Session today in an attempt to challenge the imposition by an SFA Judicial Panel of a player signing embargo.
“The process will continue at the court on Tuesday and it is the Club’s position that the Judicial Panel did not have the powers to impose such a sanction.
“The Club and the administrators are grateful for the support of the Rangers Fighting Fund on this matter.”
It is prohibited by Fifa for a club to take its association to the civil courts. Fifa rules dictate that the national association must expel any club which takes this action. In December last year the international body threatened to expel the Swiss FA from world football unless it set a deadline to expel Sion after the club took action in its local civil court.
This action can surely only be to provoke the SFA into bringing this sorry saga to an end by kicking them out of the game before Duff and Phelps are forced to padlock the doors due to their own failures.
Unfortunately, President What-school-did-you-go-to is still in residence at the SFA, so it’s unlikely that we will see any clear action from Hampden to calm supporters of other clubs or the Scotland national team.
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gerry on 25 May, 2012 at 16:07 said:
Paul67,
Do you really think the SFA will kick them out???
More like we’ll out be out of Europe.
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Under what rules would UEFA bar a Scottish club properly licensed under UEFA rules from playing in UEFA competition?
Its not going to happen.
If the SFA fail to take the relevant steps the UEFA’s action will be against the national association at national team level. The idea that Scottish clubs will be barred from UEFA competition because Rangers broke the rules is absurd. If it were a possibility and given the money that comes into the game from UEFA games all clubs would be voting no to Newco yesterday.
Surely if Fifa banned Scottish clubs from international competition due to SFA,s dereliction of jury then every team and individual effected could sue SFA for loss of earnings?
I think they are either betting blind in a suicidal game of brag (they have no stash to fund their bottle) or come what may, they that are dictating the moves as foreordained fundamentalists. It is either of those or society and Scotland’s future is FUBAR.
Personally, I think they are playing with no more than a king high. I think Scotland can stand down.
Auldheid – if FIFA expel the SFA then no clubs can play in UEFA or FIFA competitions. If the SFA abide by the ruling of the civil court, FIFA will put a gun to their head telling them to ignore it or be expelled a la Sion.
Worst case for us Huns win their wee case and it turns out to be a monumental waste of dosh for them as the SFA will not recognise the ruling….best case is Rangers BOOM headshot
Suicide by court.
Chris McLaughlin @BBCchrismclaug
BBC Scotland has learned that the Insolvency Practitioners Association are investigating the #Rangers administrators Duff & Phelps.
Custer’s last stand anyone….
Chris McLaughlin @BBCchrismclaug
BBC Scotland has learned that the Insolvency Practitioners Association are investigating the #Rangers administrators Duff & Phelps.
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Lordy.
..all this AND Eurovision weekend!
Someone must have been singin’ the ole holiday hymn
UEFA/FIFA have shown no interest in this situation to date even though the huns industrial scale cheating has been exposed for all the world to see.
I do not expect that to change.
I have agreed that the silence from Celtic has been appropriate so far.
The Huns legal action changes things in my view and it would be perfectly reasonable for Celtic and other clubs qualified for Europe to comment on the Huns actions.
Who is going to pay the SFA’s legal expenses?
http://sport.stv.tv/football/103278-friend-pays-tribute-to-tommy-burns-at-golf-tournament-named-in-his-honour/
aldersyde avenue on 25 May, 2012 at 17:01 said:
In my view it’s never appropriate for one club to comment on the actions of another, unless it’s regards to a situation where the clubs are directly involved with each other.
If Celtic are to make any comment in regard to this shambles it should only be with regard to any SPL or SFA decisions that directly affect member clubs, and as yet there’s been nothing for us to comment on.
I’ve just been reading back (only a wee bit, mind you). People seem to be under the misapprehension that matters still lie with the SFA/SPL. My understanding is that with resorting to the Court of Session, thems have crossed the line. FIFA are now involved. All of Scottish football will be punished unless the SFA takes the requisite action against them. They have signed either their own or Scottish football’s death warrant. It is as serious as could be, imo..
This is SO them. So boorish. So pyrrhic. So spiteful. So misguided. So futile. So violent. So very them.
They would lose the world and bring it all down around them just to say they did so.
Yet they would find a way to lay blame at another’s door.
Someone likened spite akin to taking rat poison and hoping the rat died.
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ernie lynch on 25 May, 2012 at 17:02 said:
Who is going to pay the SFA’s legal expenses?
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The Fighting Fund……when RFC(IA) loses miserably.
RogueLeader on 25 May, 2012 at 16:17 said:
musters – well they have tried everything else and nobody has been willing to pull the trigger….
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Correct RL OUR HERO & D&P want someone else to shoot them in the head .
Yesterday I forgot myself and panicked (just a little) that they would wriggle free. Today Im more convinced than ever they will be dead soon.
So enjoy the last throws of this charade and remember these are special times. ps HUN friendly Murderwell & the wee huns will be delighted at them trying to get everyone kicked out of europe.
Me thinks the last week or so has definitely been the calm before the storm…. What can happen as a consequence of Dumb and Dumber being investigated? Can their license be revoked?
tomthelennytim on 25 May, 2012 at 17:02 said:
Walter, maybe if people didn’t avoid and evade paying tax there would be no need for charities to raise money for cancer research and treatment.
Still, I’m sure it’s nice to have a game of golf.
The madman drinks what is toxic & tastes only sweet water- not knowing the bitterness poisons him:
The huns are drunk with this announcement: like goldfish in cheap wine.
weeminger,
If my understanding of the situation is correct, I think it is now incumbent on Celtic to make a statement, indeed every club in Scotland, because all our futures are in the balance.
Right, I’ve been as cynical as anyone but I now believe they’ll be finished by this time next week. It’s just a case of who pulls the trigger.
Doubting Thomas is starting to believe.
Surely it must be plain as day that from the day Whyte took over, this has been one big scam. How it finally ends depends on how the SFA want to play it but with their inaction so far on Ogilvie, I don’t have much faith in them. I think that even Duff and Duffer are waiting on someone else to do the deed -think Danny de Vito in Ruthless People. Going through the motions, seemingly wanting one outcome but all the while hoping for another.
Liquidation and a newco. has always been the aim and they thought they’d be able to hold Scottich football to ransom to get back in with minimal penalties.
Everything that has happened has been orchestrated to the nth degree – or am I just being paranoid?
Ernie, have you converted yet or are you waiting to hold a mirror to their lips?
Has there ever been a more pertinent example of The Gift that keeps on Giving….?
Make that ‘Scottish’
The gift that keeps giving!
Happy Lisbon Lions Day everybody!!
RogueLeader on 25 May, 2012 at 16:59 said:
Because of the “ifs” it aint gonna happen.
FIFA are depending on the innocents caught up in the rule to force their associations to stick to football rules.
To quote Trotsky ” They are like a blind man in a burning house”
Monaghan1900 on 25 May, 2012 at 17:05 said:
ernie lynch on 25 May, 2012 at 17:02 said:
Who is going to pay the SFA’s legal expenses?
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The Fighting Fund……when RFC(IA) loses miserably.
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They’re not a party to the action.
I think there’s procedure in England for making third party funders liable for expenses but I don’t know about Scotland.
The SFA should ask for caution for expenses.
How many nails can you put in a coffin?
Now, what’s it to be: 6ft under or cremation?
weeminger 16.36
leftclicktic on 25 May, 2012 at 15:53 said:
The huns on Rm delighted hoping it gets Every scottish club kicked out of europe.
STUPID STUPID SCUM
Nail them to the floor UEFA
ParkheadcumsalfordwhoisNeilLennonand PaulMcBrideandTrishGodman on 25 May, 2012 at 17:07 said:
Yes, but only if and when the SFA make a decision, that might affect us. Otherwise we’re guilty of involving ourself in a case that’s gone to the civil court.
If the SFA adhere to the rules of football governance, this has no effect on us.
sixtaeseven…
with the price of metal these days, the nails in that coffin are the most valuable asset the club has to divvy up between the creditors!!!
Ignorance would rather die with what it “knows” than change & hate would rather destroy everything if it means no one else can get what it wants…are they hoping then to pull us all down with them…suck us into the evil orbit of their insane vortex?
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 25 May, 2012 at 17:10 said:
RogueLeader on 25 May, 2012 at 16:59 said:
Because of the “ifs” it aint gonna happen.
FIFA are depending on the innocents caught up in the rule to force their associations to stick to football rules.
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Auld Neil Lennon Heid
WHAT IF THEY DONT
weeminger,
Your right, of course. I was presuming that the SFA were not going to act appropriately.
A coffin made out of recycled nails?
So today is not Liquidation Day but it will go down as another important day in their demise.
Today is Litigation Day.