SFL delivers as SPL Ltd facing insolvency

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The Scottish Football League today placed an upper limit on which division Sevco can play in next season – their Third.  We must now wait on the company providing sufficient information to complete their application to the SFL and for membership of the Scottish FA.  Although many Rangers fans want Sevco to join the Third Division, chief exec Charles Green was clearly hoping to start life higher up the food chain.

The overwhelming nature of this verdict indicates the solidarity between clubs and fans, throughout the divisions, on how our sport is governed.  This is a good thing but it leaves one burning question on the table:

Is the Scottish Premier League insolvent?

Last week SPL chief exec Neil Doncaster told SFL clubs that the Premier League would be unable to meet its contractual obligations if they did not vote Sevco into the First Division.  Unless this was a shameless lie designed to bully clubs into giving Doncaster what he wanted, the Scottish Premier League Ltd should seek to appoint an administrator without delay.

You can ignore comments about league reconstruction at some unspecified point in the future, Doncaster told us last year that “those who want 16 teams in the top flight are deluding themselves.”

The Scottish Football League does not need the SPL, or its money, to continue to thrive as a community-based sporting entity.  They will flourish.  What happens to the SPL remains to be seen.

As we have observed once or twice before, M. Platini, where are you?  We need the football world to assist with the survival of the game in one of its historic heartlands.

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  1. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Zimmerman,

     

    How does that explain an itchy arse ?

  2. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 14 July, 2012 at 02:40 said:

     

     

    It’s a slow vibration between your cheeks.

  3. zimmerman on 14 July, 2012 at 02:36

     

     

    Are you David Icke?

     

     

    That is Alice Bailey nonsense. Ask David that the next time you go to one of his shows? watch him squirm badly.

  4. Time for bed and a listen to today’s shortbread podcast,

     

    then i’ll really be as mad as hell,

     

    i’ll probably continue taking it though.

     

    nite all,

     

    HH.

  5. petec on 14 July, 2012 at 02:44 said:

     

    It’s actually Bill Hicks nonsense :))

     

     

    sleep time cometh.

  6. The bould bhoys..... Tá ár lá anois on

    No probs Pete. Thanks to stevebhoy who originally posted it. Its a belter.

     

    I actually posted the other link with you in mind. [Spooky]….the henryclarkson article— What if theres no Santa.

     

     

    hail hail

  7. zimmerman on 14 July, 2012 at 02:36 said:

     

     

    As long as you remember that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

     

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    petec on 14 July, 2012 at 02:44 said:

     

     

    zimmerman on 14 July, 2012 at 02:36

     

     

    Are you David Icke?

     

     

    That is Alice Bailey nonsense. Ask David that the next time you go to one of his shows? watch him squirm badly.

     

     

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    zimmerman on 14 July, 2012 at 02:50 said:

     

     

    petec on 14 July, 2012 at 02:44 said:

     

    It’s actually Bill Hicks nonsense :))

     

     

    sleep time cometh.

     

     

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    I find Bill Hicks as funny as anything, I mean side splitting funny but he has his agenda and it is straight out of the Alice Bailey book of theosophy. Kill religion because it is to blame for wars the anti christians want to set up.

     

     

    Any Christian would never attack another person never mind a group never mind a country.

  8. Margaret McGill on

    I’m sure this has been posted before on CQN but its still enjoyable and very topical

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxdJ3VdxNBY

     

     

    Its obvious Regan, Ogilvie, Longmuir and Doncaster should resign.

     

    I thought James Forest told me the other day that the clubs would fire them if they didnt. What they waiting on?

     

    They are simply a proven hun protection racket.

  9. zimmerman

     

     

    I apologise if you read this as me being mean spirited towards you. When I asked if you were David Icke, I was replying specifically to the content you posted at 2:36 because that is the content that man tries to push.

     

     

    HH

  10. Margaret McGill on 14 July, 2012 at 03:02

     

     

    I would have expected them to be removed today, perhaps they are waiting for Ogilvie to make the last desperate measure to save the HUNS because make no mistake if they are in Div3 by the time this season starts. Ibrox will be SOLD.

     

     

    They are continuously making errors, utilising their Loyal support at every turn, theres no doubt Bomber wisnae on an EBT, that man wid play for that scum for a carryoot.

     

     

    Likewise as I said to Zimmerman check out the stuff Bailey spoke about.

  11. Celtic will win the Champions League at some point, Neil Lennon knows the Spirituality of this Club. We are humble to all and Respect all football clubs all over the World.

     

     

    I have a real good feeling about this season that The Almighty God will prove beyond anything else that Faith is paramount.

  12. saltires en sevilla on

    Jeezo if they were going to level poundland what would be best in terms of sheer enjoyment?

     

     

    one great big detonation -mushroom cloud the whole groundburst

     

     

    or a few hefty digs with a wrecking ball

     

     

    maybe 60,000 people with pick axes and crowbars paying 20 quid each for the pleasure

     

     

    or just let it wither away in time with one of those Richard Attenburgh cameras running contunually for 100 years then speeded up to about 10 mins …I’ll not live to see it… but my grandkids will have a lot to look forward to on a Discovery channel special sometime in 2112

     

     

    #we are the priests of the temples of syrinx

     

     

    loadsa alcohol….great day…. I’ll sleep well tonite

  13. Margaret McGill on

    petec on 14 July, 2012 at 03:19 said:

     

     

    Could be. Let’s see what they pull Monday. If nothing. Then they should be gone. At least Ogilvie.

  14. saltires en sevilla on 14 July, 2012 at 03:56

     

     

    The best thing we can do is make sure Celtic Park is full every single game, when they are totally marooned in SFL3.

  15. Margaret McGill on

    saltires en sevilla on 14 July, 2012 at 03:56 said:

     

    I had that idea once. Cant remember who it was maybe Paddy Gallagher put me right but ..great idea… cant though…. asbestos!

  16. FRIDAY 13TH 2012 –

     

    THIS DAY IN HISTORY

     

     

    A special day in history was born for us today,

     

    A team called Glasgow Rangers, were gladly pissed away,

     

    They are suffering for the sins, and it’s plain for all to see.

     

    They never thought this day would come to “ra people” RFC

     

     

    So gather round good fitba fans and celebrate the day,

     

    It’s timmy time in Scotland and now we can have our say.

     

    Goodbye to the billy boys and their knees the color red,

     

    Let’s kiss them good bye with fondness NOT!!!, lets watch them die instead!

     

     

    We knew our day would come, as we took each hefty blow,

     

    The refs were in their pockets when we were stuffed through high and low

     

    For years they robbed us blind, and our forefathers suffered most,

     

    But let’s all join hands together and sing “the hunz are toast!”

     

     

    It couldn’t happen to a nastier lot, in that we can all agree,

     

    And we should raise a glass to our forefathers in the hope that they could see!

     

    A fait we all could only dream of, but alas it’s come to past.

     

    It’s a glorious and beautiful day and for eternity, may it last!!!!

     

     

    (c) Malkyd -Friday 13th 2012

     

    My favourite MOVIE….FRIDAY 13TH 2012.hahahahahah

  17. saltires en sevilla on

    petec on 14 July, 2012 at 04:02 said:

     

    saltires en sevilla on 14 July, 2012 at 03:56

     

     

    The best thing we can do is make sure Celtic Park is full every single game, when they are totally marooned in SFL3.

     

     

     

     

    good point

     

     

    so how about CFC buy poundland and for each season ticket purchased you get a free pick axe and carte blanche to level ipox

     

     

    60,000 at 20 quid premium – 1.2 million was the going rate for poundland

     

     

    club break even

     

     

    60,000 in CP

     

     

    Fans get a bit of added value

     

     

    poundland demolished

     

     

    Win Win Win

  18. saltires en sevilla on 14 July, 2012 at 04:08

     

     

    It is my opinion that the quality of the players ready to step up to the first team of Glasgow Celtic will be well worth paying money to see.

  19. Mr. Leggat.

     

     

    REGAN’S NEW ATTACK ON RANGERS REVEALED-Exclusive

     

     

    STEWART REGAN’S Scottish Football Association is demanding Rangers sign a blank cheque to allow the SFA to continue punishing them.

     

     

    And without that abject surrender by Rangers to Regan, he will make sure the SFA do not give Rangers a licence to play.

     

     

    In fact, so far reaching does Regan want the punishments to extend and so badly emasculated does he want Rangers to be, that Regan is insisting the club signs up to an agreement to accept any punishments he wants to hand them in the future for any previously undisclosed breaches of SFA Articles by conman Craig Whyte.

     

     

    This is the latest astonishing news from the sixth floor at Hampden where Regan rules the roost and where he seems determined to hold the sword of Damocles over Rangers on and on and on into the future.

     

     

    It smacks of something which many may believe goes even beyond vengeance. It smacks of what many may believe is a vindictive hatred of Rangers spewing from Stewart Regan’s chief executive office inside the SFA lair on the sixth floor of Hampden.

     

     

    I have in my possession a document drawn up on Regan’s behalf by Glasgow law firm Levy and McRae which lays out the conditions the SFA have told Rangers they must agree to, to be allowed to get a licence to play.

     

     

    And it makes frightening reading.

     

     

    Frightening reading not just for Rangers supporters. But for anyone who may be left in Scotland who believes in natural justice.

     

     

    This dynamite document gives a startling and scary insight into the mindset of the man who sits at the pinnacle of the game in Scotland, SFA chief executive Stewart Regan.

     

     

    It is a document which is a damning indictment of the way Stewart Regan’s mind works.

     

     

    The 13 point list of items required by the SFA from Sevco before the governing body can re-admit Rangers, also contains most of what any reasonable person would expect to be there.

     

     

    Details of directors and shareholding in Sevco, plus eight sub section questions about Sevco’s business plan are all legitimate questions.

     

     

    But when the deadly document reaches Item 12, headed, Sanctions, Stewart Regan’s SFA gets nasty and aims three loaded guns at the head of Rangers.

     

     

    The first pistol is cocked by demanding that Rangers confirm they will accept such sanctions as are proposed by the SFA in relation to current proceedings.

     

     

    Which looks suspiciously as though Regan wants Rangers to agree to ignore the Court of Session judgment delivered by Lord Glennie and accept the transfer ban which the learned Judge has declared unlawful.

     

     

    Is that not unlawful in itself?

     

     

    Or does Stewart Regan believe being a pal of Celtic supremo Peter Lawwell sets him above the law?

     

     

    The second gun is a loaded revolver which demands confirmation from Rangers re EBT sanction position at SPL level and subsequent appeal to the SFA.

     

     

    That looks like Rangers are being ordered by Stewart Regan to sign up to any punishment which may be imposed on them by the vindictive bigots of the SPL who refused them entry, as well as giving up any right of appeal to the SFA.

     

     

    But it is the third gun which is the weapon of mass destruction.

     

     

    It demands that Rangers confirm that they will accept responsibility for any breach of the Articles etc by the OldCo which has not so far come to light.

     

     

    That means any other dodgy deals, any more cash scams, pulled off by that ace conman, twister and huckster, Craig Whyte, will lead to Stewart Regan being able to hand down to Rangers whatever punishment takes his fancy.

     

     

    Has Regan forgotten that the Crown Office have ordered a criminal investigation into how Craig Whyte bought Rangers from David Murray and how he ran the club?

     

     

    Has Stewart Regan forgotten that this probe is being undertaken by the Procurator Fiscal, the Serious Fraud Squad and Strathclyde Police?

     

     

    Or, once again, does Stewart Regan believe that sharing the SFA boardroom with Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell puts him above Scots Law?

     

     

    There will surely be many who may take that view.

     

     

    Consider this; should the Crown Office-ordered-investigation uncover evidence that Craig Whyte has not merely infringed against SFA Articles, but also broken the law and should Whyte be found guilty and jailed, then natural justice would surely be for all football punishments already inflicted on Rangers for what Whyte has done, to be overturned?

     

     

    But instead of embracing such decency, such honesty, such natural justice, what Stewart Regan is saying is, if that happens and should the investigation uncover fresh infringements of the SFA Articles by Craig Whyte, Rangers must agree to accept more punishments.

     

     

    Surely meaning there is no way Rangers will be playing anywhere next season if that is what they are being ordered to agree to if they are to be given a licence to play by Stewart Regan.

     

     

    Indeed, what the rest of Scottish football, from the SPL, through the SFL and down through the other organisations linked to the Scottish Football Association, should be doing is demanding copies of Stewart Regan’s deadly document and asking….

     

     

    Is Stewart Regan fit for purpose.

     

     

    And they should be doing it not just before it is too late for Rangers. They should be doing it before it is too late to save Scottish football from Stewart Regan.

  20. Margaret McGill on 14 July, 2012 at 04:20

     

     

    I seen it before, Totally shocking and the fac is t ;) the Police threatened the man.

     

     

    http://tv.globalresearch.ca/

     

     

    Spread the word and get people away from STV, BBC, Fox, whatever the high broadband providers are promising.

  21. Margaret McGill on

    Leggat

     

    Wednesday, 18 August 2010

     

    MURRAY’S RETURN?

     

     

     

    (excerpt)

     

    In fact I believe Bain’s greater freedom to make decisions and his increased power since Murray left the board and the chair was filled by Alistair Johnston, who spends the overwhelming majority of his time in America, has been an extremely good thing for Rangers.

     

     

    Those in the know tell me many of Bain’s better ideas, plus his desire to publicly defend Rangers from many of the outrageous slurs perpetrated against the club by many in the media – and by rival football organizations – were thwarted by Murray.

     

     

    Certainly those close to Smith say the manager has absolute faith in Bain and, indeed, his presence as chief executive may even have played a part in Smith deciding to stay on for another season in charge.

     

     

    Last year the club’s AGM was not held until the unusually late month of November. It will be worth keeping a close eye on when the annual audited accounts are finally published, and when they are put before the shareholders for approval.

     

     

    For the events immediately before the publication of the accounts, and in the period leading up to the AGM, could well provide more straws in the wind. Hints which can help observers determine whether or not Murray will return to the Ibrox board as chairman.

     

     

    In alerting everyone, by floating that first straw, Portsmouth administrator Andrew Andronikou, has no doubt sparked off a debate.

     

     

    Or at least his comments will do, now that I have realised the full import of his words and brought them to the attention of a wider audience.

  22. kitalba,

     

     

    Respect to you for standing up for ernie lynch. I don’t think ernie respects me at all but I respect him a lot and like you, I make sure I read all of his submissions, his knowledge is incredible.

     

     

    HH and good night Fine Celtic Men.

  23. Margaret McGill on

    Can you imagine a cold Wednesday winter evening while the huns slog it out in deepest Brechin or Forfar while Celtic entertain Barcelona or Juventus at home?

     

    That dream just got a little bit closer. Come on PL. Show Lenny your vision and not via specsavers.

  24. saltires en sevilla on

    good grief Mags just watched the link -similar the one earlier – they cannot resist standing outside churches and giving it laldy a part of their tradition and culture eh?

     

     

    I remember being told by family that there was a ritual where one of their band would be selected to ‘rush’ the grounds of our local church on the saturday before the 12th. There were about 20 hefty passkeepers waiting for their unwanted visitor and each year the chosen one got thrashed within an inch of his life before being lobbed back onto the street for emergency first aid.

     

     

    two tribes eh?

     

     

    also noticed the number of similar toy soldier bands on you tube -true blues this that and the other from Downshire or Armagh etc…what’s with the ‘true blue’ bit? thought they were oranges?

     

     

    is that connected to der hunnenkind or is there some other significance to blue?

  25. saltires en sevilla on 14 July, 2012 at 04:58

     

     

    The circumambulation has real dark forces that they were trying to conjur up.

     

     

    They are Occultists at heart and Hate Christianity.

  26. saltires en sevilla

     

     

    Not really, there was a specific reason they done what they done in front of the Chapel. It was a ritual that was not mean’t to be filmed.

     

     

    Definitely bed time here and I will catch any responses later on today.