We’ve not really discussed the enormous political and disciplinary matters hanging over Scottish football since before our Champions League campaign got underway but it moves to the fore today, as the SPL Commission, headed by Lord Nimmo Smith, sits to consider charges levelled by the league against former member, Rangers FC. The Commission is expected to conclude by the end of this week.
Rangers are charged with improperly registering players by allowing footballers to enter into contractually binding agreements to receive money in connection with the game, directly or indirectly, without registering these agreements with the SPL or the SFA.
Playing an improperly registering footballer voids the result of a match, no matter how innocuous the registration impropriety is, as Spartans discovered 14 months ago to their cost. They saw their Scottish Cup win over Culter overturned because a player’s registration form was dated only once, not twice as required.
As well as being awarded a 0-3 defeat, the improper registration of players will cost the offending club any prize money ‘won’ and will result in a disciplinary measure being imposed. Spartans were fined £4000, approximately 20% of their annual income, and were suspended from the competition for 12 months. A steep tariff for leaving a box on a form empty and fielding a player in one game of football.
Lots of speculation has centred on the so-called ‘stripping of titles’ but in the event the Commission upholds the charge the voiding of results will happen as a matter of consequence; it should not subject to speculation. What is more interesting is the size of prize money the league would seek to reclaim, and redistribute, and any penalty imposed by the Commission.
SPL teams receive prize money based on their final league position, funded by the league’s TV deal, which for teams finishing in the top two positions is well in excess of £1m each year. Any ‘stripping of titles’ is likely to be a headline grabber, but the repayment of prize money and disciplinary measures will be far more significant, for some.
Sir David Murray, who owned Rangers throughout the period of alleged improper registration of players, insists the club registered all contractually binding payments players received in connection with playing football. SFA president, Campbell Ogilvie, was an executive director of Rangers for some of the period under investigation and may have been responsible for some registrations.
Charles Green rejected an offer to limit the consequences of the charge being upheld in return for his company (then called Sevco 5088 Ltd) acquiring the SFA membership vacated by Rangers. We will soon discover if he is master of the Cunning Plan or an over-ambitious gambler.
I expect calls for SPL and SFA rules to be upheld without fear or favour to be met.
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Murderwell game aff.
While responsibility for the St Mirren defeat lies squarely on the players’ shoulders, I was disappointed to see Lenny abandon his 4-3-3 so early in the game. With those players, 4-4-2 was always going to be dodgy.
re. 4-4-2 – Next time you call for Wanyama and Ledley to play as our central two, bear in mind that they have played there 9 times, garnering 40% of possible points. Hooper and Lassad have played as the front 2 3 times, and have never been great shakes – 1 win and 2 defeats. Meanwhile, Scott Brown and Adam Matthews (which I still think is a agood combination although evidence may show otherwise) have accrued 6 out of a possible 21 points.
While we are on sobering statistics, let those who expect us to hump Killie tomorrow look at the fact that, under Lenny, home games v Kilmarnock aggregate at 4-3 in favour of the Ayrshire side.
My XI for tomorrow would be:
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Zaluska :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Matthews ::::::::::::::: Wilson ::::::::::::::::: Mulgrew ::::::::: Izaguirre
::::::::::::::::: Brown ::::::::::::: Wanyama ::::::::::::: Ledley :::::::::::::::
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Commons ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Hooper :::::::::::::::::::: Watt ::::::::::::::::::::::::::
We need our most prolific attacker, Tony Watt, back in the side, along with Commons. To beat these smaller SPL teams at home, we must be more direct.
Jackie Mac – well done.
Responsible for one of the most crucial moments in Celtic history when he cued up Harald Brattback on 9/5/98.
Still the most ecstatic moment in my Celtic-life. Good luck Jackie.
Zombies to the slaughter next week,.
!!Bada Bing!!
17:59 on
29 January, 2013
Murderwell game aff.
I know Bada Bing
It’s the state of their playing surface
and the state of the weather
Good evening Timland.
All the best to Jackie Mac, let’s hope he get’s
off to a flyer on Sunday
corkcelt
17:38 on
29 January, 2013
Well said mhan.
Bada Bing!
The game not being live on UK TV is nothing like making love to a beautiful woman…..
Swiss
Ernie
Celtic voted against the huns being re-admitted to the SPL.
What else would have expected them to do?
Moon bhoys
Lenny the mineshafter, eh?
Aye right.
Thanks for posting.
ST
who told you what it was like to make love to a beautifil woman
:-)
hail hail
ernie lynch
Remind me – how Celtic voted?
Evening Bhoys .
Just read back on NFL comments re:Shiels and McLeod ,great retort to both bouts of criticism ,hope he makes Shiels eat his words all the more by dishing out a spanking at CP tomorrow evening.
Delighted for Jackie Mac landing Dundee Utd gig, makes saturdays cup-tie all the more interesting . Cue even more foaming at the mouth from the Zombies.
HH.
Best of lucky to wee Jackie.
Spoke to a hun today, he told me his brother spoke to chuckles at one of his roadshows
and he assured him that no titles would be stripped and it was a complete waste of money
he told him if he knew any tims, he was to have a bet with them that this would be the outcome, make a few bob he said.
The thing is they really believe this.
Paul67,
Your leader gave me renewed optimism and i hope and pray you are right.
Sevconians that I speak to ( yeah , I know!) are utterly convinced that there will be no punishment or if there is will be based on a technicality and punishment will be minimal.
Hopefully they are showing there usual trait of head in the sand but a niggling doubt with me is that the issue of title stripping and repayment of prize money will be fudged!
Scottish football truly doomed if that be the outcome.
LNS come on , prove me wrong!!!
Swiss tony -Ha HH
Prediction.
Arabs 6 -1 Zombies.
You heard it here first!
HH!!
Ps … Clining to the hope that their deluded principle of retaining history proves to be their doom!
Paul67
You were proved to be very accurate with your mis-givings on our hopes of defeating St Mirren. I hope and pray that you are equally correct about the findings of LNS.
HH
Due process
Uphold
Rule
Law
Judgement
Could this be when the moral consequences come home to roost.
Standards
Integrity
Dignity
Suppose we’ll have to wait and see
This is the key statement from the BBC article that Paul linked to
“Scottish Cup rules now state that any club that plays a player who is ineligible will be thrown out of the competition.
The rules also state that neither the judicial panel or anyone at the SFA has the authority to change this rule.”
The SPL rules allow for virtually any punishment for a rule breach. That gives the panel the power to hand down a huge range of sanctions. These include unlimited fines , stripping of titles and loss of matches, with the result awarded to the opposing team in a game where a serious rule breach has occurred
The SFA as appeal body don’t appear to have any wriggle room to reverse a decision to that changes a match result. Precedent with Spartans also kills stone dead the argument that an administrative error should be dealt with by a slap on the wrist
For my part, how Rangers are dealt with by the Judicial panel and the SFA is of much greater consequence than which league Rangers played in.
Paul wrote an article over a year on how much each SPL club lost out financially should Rangers be found guilty of breaching the rules consistently
Time to dust that one off, and remind the Scottish Football public how much money their own clubs were denied by the policy of David Murray, should Nimmo Smith agree with Rangers own QC at the FTTT that certain side letter payments (as a minimum) were contractual
Does anyone know who is presenting evidence to the SPL enquiry?
bournesouprecipe
18:15 on 29 January, 2013
‘ernie lynch
Remind me – how Celtic voted?’
With the majority.
bugger,
Efe could be staying
I watched the game very late on Sunday night without knowing the result.
That was two hours sleep lost. But the best team won – and hopefully they will go on and lift the cup as well.
On the ole titles – I will wait and see what occurs. I really can’t be bothered getting into a tizzy about this stuff.
At least there are only two days of the transfer window left and that nonsense can be put to bed for a few months.
Nigeria score pen 1-0
Hamiltontim
18:12 on 29 January, 2013
‘Ernie
Celtic voted against the huns being re-admitted to the SPL.
What else would have expected them to do?’
Given the mood of the fans, of all SPL clubs, they had no alternative.
Stripping of titles is restitution not punishment
ernie lynch
Is your policy to just criticise the board regardless of what happens?
Will LNS’s tribunal have available to them a transcript of the evidence at the FTT tribunal?
Steinreignedsupreme
18:39 on 29 January, 2013
‘ernie lynch
Is your policy to just criticise the board regardless of what happens?’
No.
Murderwell chief exec tells Shortbread new league set up is hoped to start next season
Nigeria get another penalty..
Canamalar
In a word ,do you think titles will be stripped ?
HH.
ernie..,
I dont think the FTTT transcript is needed as evidence, I would also expect such learned men fully aware of the findings as part of their development as experts in their field.
Ernie
Celtic voted no, that’s well documented.
Can you provide any evidence to suggest that they would have done otherwise had this ‘mood’ been different?
channel….,
yep :o)
Pleased for wee Jackie Mac – hope he gets off to a flyer (Well game off tonight) and gives der bosch a right good slapping on Saturday!
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