Tonight Sevco accepted all outstanding penalties attributable to the SFA membership of soon-to-be-liquidated Rangers. They also agreed that if Rangers are found to have cheated for over a decade by illegally registering players that they will be subject to whatever penalties Rangers would be due, in order to acquire Rangers SFA membership.
Only a week ago Ally McCoist insisted he would not be party to such a deal, it remains to be seen if that they were empty words.
The Scottish Premier League will now continue with its inquiry into the alleged dual-contracts Rangers operated during the Sir David Murray era. I confidently predict the findings will reveal Rangers did not operate within the same rules as every other club, since at least the last century. The former club will be stripped of all league titles and cups. Celtic will be awarded league titles for 2003, 2005, 2009, 2010 and 2011, creating a new Scottish record of 12 consecutive league championship wins.
Sevco will be liable for any punishment due for these years of operating with shadow contracts, the likely severity of which will reflect the enormity of the offence.
Should the First Tier Tribunal find that Rangers evaded paying up to £75m of social taxes, which is explicitly against Fifa and SFA rules, the SFA disciplinary tribunal will punish Sevco, the successor club now due to inherit Rangers SFA membership.
If you are on the receiving end of this, the future will appear daunting. If you stood at Rugby Park, Fir Park, Celtic Park, St Mirren Park or Caledonian Stadium, when Celtic effectively or actually ‘lost’ league titles while observing the rules, the cumulative effects of punishments on a rival are meaningless, you will want trophies awarded to those who were prepared to endure defeat while observing the rules.
One day soon the world will know, you were not paranoid after all!
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Westim. on 28 July, 2012 at 01:10:
Good for you.
Watched the opening of the olympics.
Blown away absolute brill.
Do sevco have a badge yet.
Brilliant news.
Just thinking earlier of the dozens of Celtic scarves that i once owned/collected when i was a kid,and where did they all go to?
Some crackers…one in particular,an old skool style Lisbon Lions one,with a really class print on it,and another wee one from years ago,half Cliftonville/half Celtic that said: From The Cage To The Jungle – We’ll Follow The Bhoys!
Probably all got stolen from me,just like the huns stole all those titles,ah well,at least the club is going to get those titles back.
Justice at last.
I will be back in the Cage(all seated now) the mara to watch the wee Celts play the wee Reds once again
Goodnight and good luck to all Celtic supporters.
Paul,
Your logic is flawless, but the reality is different.
There have been many instances along the way when the coup de grace could have been delivered.
At every turn, the football authorities have reneged on their responsibilities.
Up to and including today, they have given no indication of acknowledging the concept of sporting integrity.
If you, or anyone else, believes that justice will prevail, then I fear that you are either being seriously deluded, or else are displaying an unprecedented level of naivety.
Either option I would say are not what I have come to expect
You know my long held view.
There is no place in Scottish football for Celtic.
God night, CQn.
Question-
Will that fat useless bastard be able to get out of division 3 with division 3 players or is he going to be given help?
dirtymac
You’re ‘claimed’ or whatever it is they use on tweetland :-))
TimJim on 28 July, 2012 at 01:12
No, you are wrong. Is it you who works for the DR?
They may have brought in the union flag as well, but I am talking about them bringing in the Olympic flag.
You know, the thing with 5 rings on it. Got it? well done.
thomthethim on 28 July, 2012 at 01:13 said:
Dead right Thomas,
Nothing is ever gonna change in “Bonnie Scotland”
Land of the wee free & the home of the craven
Westim.
With all due respect mi amigo, if you believe that the powers who run the game in scotland will punish them for their cheating, you obviously have more faith than I do.
They have had the chance to bury them, it will never happen.
They have broken virtually every rule in the book, and still no punishment, everything is and will be done to accomadate them.
………………………………………..
Paul67
It’s not often I disagree with your leaders, but you have this one spectacuarly wrong IMO.
The cheats have won…….hence their licence.
They will possibly be stripped of a title or two, so what, the damage is done, we are the ones who hae been defrauded of hundreds of millions, so stripping a few titles will make it Ok, I think not.
They deserve no less than to be kicked out of football for ever, no less and they have won.
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby on 28 July, 2012 at 01:15 said:
Maybes aye, Maybes no but, if you keep using language like that he’ll last longer than you:-((
I will feel little pleasure when we are awarded those titles.
The last ten years of Scottish football has been rendered nearly meaningless by the huns’ cheating. Celtic damaged herself financially trying to compete with the huns, and we damaged ourselves emotionally with the agony of 2005 in particular, and 2003 and 2009 to a lesser extent (for me anyway). Should we celebrate even more the trophies we won on that skewed field, or should we mourn the denied opportunities to compete in the CL? One glaring by-product is that we could have been spared the Artmedia debacle in summer 2005.
And it’s not just us – it’s the other teams in Scotland that could have won Scottish Cups, League Cups, avoided relegation, been promoted, finished 6th instead of 7th…; teams the cheating huns papped out of Europe (not many I grant you).
That misery; those missed experiences; that persistent feeling that we were being shafted on some level; being accused of paranoia; the sense that Fergus calling out Jim Farry wasn’t going to effect any positive change in the attitude of the SFA towards us…
I will be glad when they strip those titles from the huns, but I won;t take any pleasure in seeing them allocated to us. We could have won them fair and square and their cheating denied us that chance, and all the benefits and opportunites that might have subsequently arisen.
http://youtu.be/iix18rtJmU0
Hun bastards, you are dead. The game is over, the rebels have won.
TET.
Try not to be too downhearted,this still has to be played out .
The world will soon know what weve been on about for years.
They will be tainted forever.
Sevco might not even make it through the season.
How embarresing will that be not just for the currents, but also for the sfa.
hamiltontim on 28 July, 2012 at 01:16 said:
Long time since I´ve heard that wan.
Ah´m claimin you ya bass.
(thumbies up)
TET.
Try not to be too downhearted,this still has to be played out .
The world will soon know what weve been on about for years.
They will be tainted forever.
Sevco might not even make it through the season.
Now that would be funny.
The Comfortable Collective on 28 July, 2012 at 01:17 said
I don,t think Mohamad Ali was ever in the British army
Soz, dont know how that happened .
Must be bed time .
Nite all, hail hail.
newradbhoy
The world cares not for us.
We are a blott on the football landscape, if the powers cared, they would have done something about it…the masonic arm reaches far, trust me on that.
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby on 28 July, 2012 at 01:15 said:
Nuthin wrang way yur language son.It´s in the dickshunnery lol.
Just had a wee look at ticket availability for tomorrow’s game.
From what I can gather only the bottom tier of the stadium will be open. Pity really.
CT
You get a ticket?
Nytol
Terrific opening ceremony but to more important matters. Paul, I hate to be a doubter, I really do, but I do wonder who’s going to switch them off. The SFA and SFL are at pains to keep them on an albeit temporary life-support. This whole episode has taught us to expect the unexpected – I hope you’re right therefore.
Anyone help? I’m having real problems with CQN on my laptop. When I click on comments I get taken to the website of the top-of-page advertiser, or to a page with only the article on it. Am on phone for this – anything to be done? All other sites fine, just CQN comments.
Just watched the Olympic ceremony,interesting,but typical Brit.,mentality they must show the military strength as their leading light,sad really,but that is them.
tarrant on 28 July, 2012 at 01:20 said:
‘I will feel little pleasure when we are awarded those titles.’
I can assure you our bus (excl. hamiltontim (IA)) will have, possibly, 15 mad mental celebrations.
EachtotheirownmiserableselfCSC
Are the objections to the flag bearers down to the fact that Ban KiMoon was one of them? Can’t see anyone else to get worked up about.
An extraordinary party of flagbearers brought the Olympic Flag into the stadium moments after the Queen declared the London Games open.
Muhammad Ali and Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, were among the nine who took part in the ceremony.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, Ethiopian athletics veteran Haile Gebrselassie and Shami Chakrabati, director of Liberty, were also flagbearers, along with Sally Becker, known as the Angel of Mostar who risked her life to deliver aid and evacuate children in the Balkan War, Marina Silva, who has fought against the destruction of the rainforest, Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, who has worked to try and end Liberia’s civil war, and musician Daniel Barenboim.
Calton
Fair enough ;)
I’m on a high,I’ve just climbed into ma scratchenhoffen after a few sherbert dib dabs n av put the Rock n Roll Circus on to watch,am on a wee bit of a high,I’m the proud owner tonight of a new Blackstar amplifier,its some bit a kit,am thinkin’ abit formin’ a Hendrix tribute baun’ n the strength of it such is ma pure chuff’tness.
hamiltontim on 28 July, 2012 at 01:25 said:,
Not got a ticket, could be working tomorrow due to yer County???
HH
Sally is a noise up merchant and lost the plot. ” Rankers were mismanaged for 10 MONTHS”
Disingenuous nasty Sally.
Try 20 yrs and before that religious discrimination.
IMO,they the former Rankers were NEVER an honest club. Ever..
Milan soon.. Cannae wait..
How’s Brechin Sally?
HH
CaltonTongues on 28 July, 2012 at 01:27 said:
I´ll feel the greatest pleasure in taking away their title as the twats put it of ” we are the best team in the world” Prats.
Bhoys
Get a grip.
Its far from over. We learned nothing new today except Sevco are on the hook for Everything. Green now has to show the money and he does not have it. Why ?
Because he officially failed today to get the conditions that was sought by any serious investor.
The con has not worked..
Nobody can sue based on a provisional 7 day license.
Green has to show the money. He has just spent 5.5m. They dont have the SPL prize money. They have got 200k from Southampton seemingly. They never got any other transfer income. They have sold 200 ST. 1st teamers are on exorbitant salaries. BDO has not even started yet. They owe 3m in European transfers.
Everybody calm down and remember that the SFA will never swing the axe unless they got 20m stuck away.
Remember BRTH post and 2001
Read Ian Fraser blog to get an insight into green hornet.
Btw this jelly and icecreams delicious
HH
A ccidently turned t.v. over and saw a few seconds of the opening ceremony,..now i’ll need to saw my own head off as punishment.
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby on 28 July, 2012 at 01:27 said:
Calton
Fair enough ;)
I’m on a high,I’ve just climbed into ma scratchenhoffen after a few sherbert dib dabs n av put the Rock n Roll Circus on to watch,am on a wee bit of a high,I’m the proud owner tonight of a new Blackstar amplifier,its some bit a kit,am thinkin’ abit formin’ a Hendrix tribute baun’ n the strength of it such is ma pure chuff’tness.
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Excellent,
Re the musak see Dick Byrne (Paul will give you his email) :-))
An extraordinary party of flagbearers brought the Olympic Flag into the stadium moments after the Queen declared the London Games open.
Muhammad Ali and Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered black teenager Stephen Lawrence, were among the nine who took part in the ceremony.
Ban Ki-moon, the UN secretary general, Ethiopian athletics veteran Haile Gebrselassie and Shami Chakrabati, director of Liberty, were also flagbearers, along with Sally Becker, known as the Angel of Mostar who risked her life to deliver aid and evacuate children in the Balkan War, Marina Silva, who has fought against the destruction of the rainforest, Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee, who has worked to try and end Liberia’s civil war, and musician Daniel Barenboim.
Absolutely fantastic line-up, and a credit to the organisers for allowing such a political group. Danny Boyle for our new president.
TimJim on 28 July, 2012 at 01:21
Well done, indeed he wasn’t. Good for you. (Ali was not the biggest fan of the American army either. Dare I suggest the changing of ‘Afghani child killers’ to ‘Vietnamese child killers’, and I think I can claim Ali on my side instead of yours – what do you think?)
He also wasn’t part of the berret wearing group who brought in the Olympic Flag (that is the one with five rings on it).
He was part of the group including many world wide worthies who did perambulate along with the olympic flag for a while – all nicely turned out in white tracksuites.
The Olympic flag was actually quite often seen tonight, (given it was actually a ceremony to do with the Olympic games) by many different groups.
That is why I mentioned it being brought in buy the berret wearing uniformed group.
Because that was who I was referring to.
As the Queen may have said tonight, “Pay attention Bond!”.
CT
In English please….
apologies if discussed..
is this going to be the ‘mob rule’ scenario greybeard talked about?
‘And now ladies and ghentlemhen,Danny Camara….’
hamiltontim on 28 July, 2012 at 01:33 said:
CT
In English please….
Will text you, not for the blog.