Walter Smith was not named by BBC’s Mark Daly as a recipient of an Employee Benefit Trust in the recent documentary, however, before this matter is put to bed I expect more names to emerge. As soon as Smith makes himself available to a proper journalist he will be asked:
Did he receive EBT loan payments from Rangers?
If so:
Did he repay those loans or hold his cash while the club ran out of money and died?
Was he in receipt of a letter from Rangers confirming he was not required to repay?
Did his then employers, the Scottish FA, know he was perhaps receiving money from a member club while employed by them?
Are SFA employees contractually inhibited from taking payments from a member club or required to inform the SFA board of any payments received by a member club?
Did his earlier employers, Everton FC, know if he was receiving money from another club while employed by them?
Was Smith contractually inhibited from taking payments from another club or required to inform Everton of any payments received from another club?
As manager of Rangers, was he involved in negotiations with players who had EBTs or was he another one who concentrated on administrative and legislative duties?
Was he one of the men SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie, suggested failed to reveal side contracts to the Rangers board?
Rangers’ liquidators, BDO, will forensically pour over most of these questions, so Smith’s answers will be verifiable.
No one who played an active part in Rangers EBT scandal will come out of this clean. The ramifications multiply if Rangers were discretely paying any senior employee of another club.
I simply cannot imagine the justification for a member club discretely paying a senior employee of the SFA. Frankly, it would be beyond every Celtic fan’s most paranoid fantasies. I am sure Mr Smith will quickly and easily be able to reassure everyone.
An interesting twist in Smith’s bid for the assets of Rangers is that if he is to inherit Green’s application for a SFA licence and take a controlling interest in the club, Green is obliged to do due diligence on Smith to determine if he is a Fit and Proper person. Perhaps Mr Green can use the above as his due diligence questionnaire.
One final thought. In the unlikely event that it is established that one senior SFA employee was receiving discrete payments from Rangers, we need an immediate and independent inquiry to establish how many others received such payments and what they were for.
As a matter of some urgency I would recommend Stewart Regan brings himself up to speed on this one. I am sure his president is banging the table as you read this insisting the chief executive gets to the bottom of this. It’s not as though he is heavily conflicted and the SFA is in dire need of an independent president to steady the ship.
My friends in Celtic, this just got interesting.
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Invercelt
They were scabs alright
tommytwiststommyturns –
I know mate :~)
But bliddy hell eh?
Jim White must have had a wee snifter, no visible shakes there….!
T4
An interesting quote from Dave King regards his conversation with Charlie Green the other day
“What Green was saying was he would replace Ally with another manager at a lower level because his view was NewClub didn’t need a manager of Ally’s quality (seriously he said that word) for the level of football they would be playing. They won’t be in Europe. They don’t need a marquee ( stop laughing) manager as they won’t be winning the League anyway”
hen1rik –
SFA ban, but even without that . . . litigation and in-fighting between factions at Ibrox.
It’s too big a mess to just turn it round and say – ok let’s get this show on the road.
It ain’t gonna happen.
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Ok matey I’m holding you to this lol.
Invercelt on 16 June, 2012 at 11:50 said:
Stringer Bell @ 10.22,
If I’m not mistaken, the NUM never took a vote on the Scargill strike, so the miners who continued working weren’t scabs.
You`re right, of course.
Facts speak louder than ideology which uses intimidation as its basic tool.
Viz. Hitler.
Viz Stalin.
The Rangers Football Club Ltd.,
Formed 14th.,June 2012
Club Motto “No Quite Ready”
A History……
League Championships 0
Scottish Cup Wins 0
League Cup Wins 0
Glasgow Cup Wins 0
European Competitions Entered 0
Matches Played in Competitions 0
Players 0
Loving Cups 0
Arsenal Shares 0
SPL Licence 0
Players Booked 0
Players Sent Off 0
Youth Academy 0
First Team 0
Reserve Team 0
Season Ticket Sales 0
Supporters Clubs 0
Debenture Holders 0
Shareholders 5
Managers 1
Tel.No. Not Known.
Lanterns 0
Dignity 0
Penalties (on field) 0
Penalties (applied by ruling bodies thus far) 0
Stars 0
Please feel free to add to this list por cierto
The Rangers Football Club Ltd.,
Formed 14th.,June 2012
Club Motto “No Quite Ready”
A History……
League Championships 0
Scottish Cup Wins 0
League Cup Wins 0
Glasgow Cup Wins 0
European Competitions Entered 0
Matches Played in Competitions 0
Players 0
Loving Cups 0
Arsenal Shares 0
SPL Licence 0
Players Booked 0
Players Sent Off 0
Youth Academy 0
First Team 0
Reserve Team 0
Season Ticket Sales 0
Supporters Clubs 0
Debenture Holders 0
Shareholders 5
Managers 1
Tel.No. Not Known.
Lanterns 0
Dignity 0
Penalties (on field) 0
Penalties (applied by ruling bodies thus far) 0
Stars 0
Debts £8,5000,000
Please feel free to add to this list por cierto
Tom McLaughlin on 16 June, 2012 at 12:01 said:
Tom i don’t trust the SPL/SFA to do the honourable thing, what about you.
“Simply the Best” has been changed to “Now your just somebody that I used to know”
por cierto…
Ten Men…
I would take everything Dave King says with a huge pinch of salt. He looks to be part of Walter’s attempt to undermine Green.
The whole affair is tawdry beyond belief…
Por Cierto on 16 June, 2012 at 12:05 said:
The Rangers Football Club Ltd.,
Formed 14th.,June 2012
Club Motto “No Quite Ready”
___________________________________________________________
At the gates of Hades, a horned, goat like man extends a welcoming hand to R@ngers.
“Ready?” ,he asks.
“Ready” comes the sobbed reply.
In the back bedroom he admired the orange lillies coming into bloom in his manicured garden and slowly drew the curtains closed.
The 64 year old man, jet black hair slicked back, dressed in a blazer, grey trousers and brown brogues looked down into the empty hampers.
His cherished ritual performed over a thousand times before, he pressed his face against the blue jersey hanging up on the frame of the wardrobes. Sixteen of them and a goalie top.
Trying to keep a brave face on it, his stiff upper lip trembled as he pursed them and tried to whistle out the Dambusters. But as soon as he realised the red topped black socks represented nothing more than death the tears began to flow.
A few streets away, Dinos van came up the road, chiming away,
His ritual will remain, but in secret, and in shame.
Saint Stivs
Magic…….por cierto
I was reading that the Russians are sending in Special Forces to Syria.
Won’t be long until there is more international “boots on the ground” in Syria then.
Poor people.
macjay –
They didn’t need a ballot to strike, just like in the previous miners strike in 1969/70, because the union leaders were already democratically elected. At the time of the Scargill strike there was no legal requirement for a ballot, just like there is no need for a referendum every time the Government decides to invade another country.
It was the right-wing media who demanded a ballot, but there was no legal basis for it.
Thatcher changed that, but at the time, the union leadership had the power to bring the members out. Just because it doesn’t suit the media doesn’t make it wrong.
I am surprised at someone of your intelligence and sense of fair play to fall for that one.
St Stivs
LOL
HH
M
St Stivs – excellent! Is he really that old?
T4
Anyone doing the mens 10k near the former home of Rangers tomorrow ?
Por Cierto on 16 June, 2012 at 12:08 said:
I like it……..and Gotye.
A good Aussie .
On FF
They are saying killie asking for a secret vote on newco.
Some bears say secret vote is best way for us to get in
others say no transparency is best way I can see a compromise coming.
Secret vote and if it doesnt work in our favour ……send in Ally n Sanny
Por Cierto on 16 June, 2012 at 11:37 said:
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Players – 0
I think its going to be a wee while before we have a new article posted.
Paul was up in the early hours sipping champagne, so guessing he is in bed nursing a sore head.
Does any one know the record for the number of posts on one of Pauls articles?
Miners strike –
There was no national ballot——-it was not yet a legal requirement.
Strike action was therefore perfectly constitutional-whether it was politically astute is another argument
And Moisty says, ” Who are these clubs? I think we have a right to know who they are…”
:-)
ItaliaBhoy
Of course King is in the Phoenix Knights camp, but be in no doubt Green will undertake massive cost cutting to start NewCo off as a club that lives within their means
A totally alien concept to those who have cheated Scottish football for at least 14 years
Secret votes eh?
Somebody is tampering with the jury m’lud ..
what are the odds eh?
HH
M
miki67
Players are in bud por cierto
tommytwiststommyturns on 16 June, 2012 at 12:16 said:
St Stivs – excellent! Is he really that old?
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i actually think he is 140.
Por Cierto on 16 June, 2012 at 12:05 said:
SFA license: 0
St Etienne bikes: 0
Are we now the one firm? The new firm ?or the infirm?….oh and someone tell wee WFPLG that he is the manager of nothing at the moment .hh
While I think secret votes are justified when the decision is an individual one, I don’t think that applies in this case. The chairmen are voting on behalf of their clubs, their shareholders and, if they have any integrity about them, they should see that as including their fans as well.
If the vote doesn’t go the way the fans want, I think there will be uproar. If,in addition, it’s a secret ballot and fans aren’t allowed to know which way their clubs voted, I think the sense of outrage might be even greater.
swindonbhoy on 16 June, 2012 at 12:19 said:
I think its going to be a wee while before we have a new article posted.
Paul was up in the early hours sipping champagne, so guessing he is in bed nursing a sore head.
Does any one know the record for the number of posts on one of Pauls articles?
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I think MWD had about fifty in one article ….it might have been more…
(MWD just kiddin’ mate hope you are feeling much better)
HH
M
Tom McLaughlin on 16 June, 2012 at 10:50 said:
“Why do we continue to give assholes like Craig Burley the attention he craves? He reads CQN and I bet he is creaming his pants reading this today.”
Jeezo, Burley can read. Are you sure?
I like the sound of FC Serco (or whatever it is) as the name for them.
Will they still be called huns if the history doesn’t transfer? Maybe we have to call them something else.
If they don’t get into the SPL for 12/13, then they would have to start at SFL3 in 13/14.
Craig belter of goal against rankers to stop the 10
but I preferred Lambo’s rocket shot in the postage stamp
yourS was a decent enough effort …got us the points we needed
HH
M
In all fairness, if the OF term is dead and RFCia is dead, then the term Huns is dead as well.
Anyone playing in blue out of iPox should be called Orcs from now on to be fair.
Sky reporting we’ve knocked back a £6m + bid for KI. We’re expecting them to come back in and Spurs also expressing interest recently.