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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RobertTressell
Chuck threatening to leave Scottish football says to me that there could be a verdict that they don’t like.
This mob make threats to try and change the outcome of these things. They have been doing it for years. They intimidate everyone and they have got away with it on the sly for many years.
If it happens this time in full view of everyone then it’s curtains for me unless Celtic get involved. Like Sunday’s match I can accept any defeat if my club make a fight of it and try their best. IF the result doesn’t go the way we all hope it does the club better come out fighting or expect the season ticket sales to tumble again next season.
LB
after reading posters on here, i am starting to feel the nimmo smith commission will be a whitewash and rangers will get off lightly
Warmest congratulations to Jacki Mac!
Smashin player for us – MON made him club captain for the 2004/05 season.
SPFA Young POTY – 1996
SPFA POTY – 1998
Scottish Football Writers POTY – 2004
HH!!
oldtim67
16:34 on
29 January, 2013
AKBW1888.
I take 20 prescribed Tablets & 2 injections a day,+2 non medical tablet also,If they were a genuine medicine to restore lost memory,I’d give them a bash,Just think of all the games that would come back to me.
On second thoughts,I don’t think I’d like to get my memory restored to when I was young,I’d want to back to those days.
I don’t blame you Senior Tim 67
Those where the days my friend I thought would never end as the words
of one famous pop tune back then the world was certainly different than
what it is today
I was watching a movie last night entitled Se7ven it’s one of those suspense
movies with Morgan Freeman-Brad Pitt & Keven Spacey who are the main
characters of said movie Morgan Freeman says at the end of the movie
that I think it’s an author Ernest Henley was quoted in saying that:-
1) The world is a beautiful place
2) & It’s worth fighting for
Morgan Freeman says he agrees with the words it’s worth fighting for but
not the world is a beautiful place I agree with Morgans opinion about this
world we live in today
Said tablets don’t interfere with one medication that you GP is prescribing
to yourself these tablets don’t have any drugs in them or side effects
Also as mentioned they certainly do make a difference in more ways
than one and Lord willing helps to prevent dementia which unfortunately
I have two Auntie’s who suffer from said health condition bless them
RT -I think Ogilvie has been assured of being protected by the “fraternity”.A high profile hun to go early in the proceedings,would have looked bad for Regan and co.
Even the most minimal, the merest, or any punishment will lead to Sevconian unrest.
WhatsNew CSC
Efe misses free header
Efe misses a sitter
2 footed challenge by player wearing green white & gold, no booking, no red card, obviously this game isn’t taking place in Scotland
Congrats to Jacki Mac.
I pray the new manager thing comes into effect this week and Utd hump their next opponents.
Good luck to Jackie McNamara who will be confirmed as Dun. Utd. Manager tomorrow.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Ive never seen Balotelli miss a penalty.
Might be worth signing him up to take our spot kicks.
The trouble is the Mibs are not too keen on giving us pens anyway.
Big G
14:16 on 29 January, 2013
That’s really scary stuff,not only the poor grasp of the written word but the fact that he/she probably believes it.
No wonder the scourge of sectarianism continues to hold people in its power when there are people like that having children.Disgusting.
THE EXILED TIM
17:09 on
29 January, 2013
Congrats to Jacki Mac.
I pray the new manager thing comes into effect this week and Utd hump their next opponents.
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I have a feeling they will!
HH!!
MON says he wants at least 1 striker in,Skybet have us 2/1 fav to sign Grant Holt……..
Players turning away from the thrower is often a deliberate ploy, not a show of disinterest.
Tally
I would love to see them taking 5 or 6 off them, a total humiliation.
West csc
The CQN default position is it will not happen, no matter how many times it does.
We’ll see.
oldtim67
16:56 on
29 January, 2013
AKBW1888.
I remember speaking to two yanks in Edinburgh Airport.And I passed a comment about coming to Scotland when the weather was on the wet side.
Their comment to me was That’s why we’re here,We come from Arizona,and this is great weather for us,we never see rain from one month to the next.
So you can’t please everyone, all the time.
Senior Tim 67
I have been to America
America is a much warmer climate than Scotland they also get rain over
there but said rain passes bye over there within an hour or so
Canada to this day still gets four Season’s in one year
Bulgaria has cold winters but Bulgaria also has Guaranteed
Scotland in the 60’s had proper summers as well as Springs & Autumns
& of course Winters as well
But when one lives in a country where the weather is nearly always crap
and the only companies who are really making loads of shekels is
the gas/electric companies then sure one starts to get a bit p*ssed off
when the weather is like this nearly all the time no wonder a lot of people
drink heavily in Scotland although untold amount of alcohol is not the
answer either but said weather climate stuck in that mode does not
help so it’s not a case oh well you can please all the people all the
time it’s a case of getting ones fair share of it’s a case of it can’t please
all the people all the time then one might as well go and live in
Siberia or Greenland or The North & South Pole or Alaska or any
other permanent cold countries and always know what to expect
as far as the weather is concerned Scotland is moving towards
the above mentioned country’s
Global warming, global warming my ass, more like more freeze
and freak weather WARNING
I’m afraid the weather climate here is now in write off mode and
those rich Yanks that you met @ the Airport are obviously jet
setters who are out travelling the world I bet you they would not
give up Arizona for Scotland’s climate that is for sure and going
by America’s past voting results they are down as a confused
Nation also I don’t agree with there Gun’s policy it should be
taken out of the equation simple as that
Auldheid-Do you think titles will be stripped?
Bulgaria gets proper summers
Under courtroom conditions (FTTT) the MIH/Rangers FC QC, Mr Thornhill, conceded that, where a side letter existed, the remuneration trust benefit to footballers was contractual.
As Rangers did not lodge any side letters with the SPL the complete Contract of Service was not submitted for players who had been given that additional benefit. Therefore, players who are found to have been issued with side letters must logically be found to have not been eligible to play in official matches.
Rangers understood that the EBT benefit was contractual with the issue of a side letter.
Rangers understood that all Contracts of Service must be lodged with the SPL.
Rangers understood that they were playing with improperly registered players.
Though the commission are not in any real position to punish the club – as they are now deceased – they must, at the very least, correct the result of each match where an ineligible player participated.
This is really, really simple.
Bawsman-Acting dumb will see the huns through this.
English SFA told by Govt Select Commitee to tackle their finance issues within a year or face legislation.
The gloves are off because supporters would not oppose Govt involvment so not a vote loser.
FIFA/UEFA will not protest as they want same thing.
Now why can Scot Govt not do something similar about the SFA’ poor governance record?
AKBW1888
17:29 on
Bulgaria gets proper summers
As we native’s say “Bulgarski” -)))
Quite interesting from the Herald…
“The Hoops captured the Clydesdale Bank Premier League title, but surprisingly lost in the final of the Scottish Communities League Cup to Killie and in the semi-final of the William Hill Scottish Cup to eventual winners Hearts.
Shiels told BBC Radio Scotland last Wednesday that, in the context of mind games he may play with fellow managers, that Celtic had “massively underachieved” and “threw away” two cups, while claiming Kilmarnock’s success made them the only rightful candidate for team of 2012.
If Shiels was intending to rile his fellow Northern Irishman ahead of Kilmarnock’s visit to Parkhead in the SPL tomorrow night, then he succeeded.
Lennon has guided his side to the last 16 of the Champions League this season – where they will play Juventus next month – and they are odds-on to retain the SPL title, although they did lose their Scottish Communities League Cup semi-final with St Mirren on Sunday.
Told about Shiels’ comments, Lennon said: “It has nothing to do with him. He shouldn’t be commenting on my team and my club, I don’t comment on his.
“I don’t know what context he is using that in (underachieving) but what is he saying about us this season?
“They won the League Cup and defended it very poorly, which no-one seems to touch on; they got knocked out in the first round.
“You can look at it in many ways but I think we have been brilliant.
“I think we probably overachieved in 2012, for the budget we were working with, the environment that we are playing in, the pressure the players are under week-in, week-out, the analysis that goes with it and the naivety and the youth that is in our squad.
“I think they have performed magnificently and I am very proud of them. You get the odd setback but in the main they have been fantastic.”
Lennon’s reference to the analysis of his players led him into another verbal attack, this time on former Celtic assistant manager Murdo MacLeod, who also played for the club.
In his newspaper column yesterday MacLeod, also a radio pundit, said of Celtic’s defeat to St Mirren: “Blowing one treble is careless, but blowing two is verging on criminal…That’s why I feel sorry for those supporters who turned up at Hampden and forked out hard-earned cash to watch that display.”
Lennon said: “A columnist yesterday made a sycophantic comment about feeling sorry for the Celtic fans and their hard-earned cash.
“Personally, I don’t think he cares about supporters’ hard-earned cash because he will not have to pay to get into a game anywhere.
“Basically, (it is) trying to put a wedge between the players and the supporters, throwing in these cliched lines that are regurgitated every time that we get a defeat.
“I think our fans have had good value for money this season and I hope that continues for the remainder of the season.
“The columnist also described us losing the treble as careless, as if winning the treble is as easy as shelling peas.
“It is a very difficult thing to do and, as I have been reminded constantly, there are only two managers in the history of the club who have done it before.
“Some people’s expectations are that we should be decimating everyone, that is not the case either, winning games is very hard to do. But I think in my time here our win percentage is excellent.”
However, Lennon did admit to concerns about psychological barriers his players may have at playing at Hampden after losing to Kilmarnock, Hearts and the Buddies in their last three appearances there.
“I actually do think there might be a psychology thing about playing at Hampden for some reason,” he said. “The previous two games we played pretty well but that (against St Mirren) was the poorest we have played there for a while.
“We were in scintillating form going into the game but they can’t seem to replicate that at the national stadium at times so that is something I need to address if we get there again.
“It might be the atmosphere but Hampden is not there for our approval, it is not there for us to swan in and win the game and go home again.
“We have to overcome whatever mental deficiencies we have in playing there, but there is definitely a dip in performances when they go and play there.”
Meanwhile, Lennon said there has been no further interest in striker Gary Hooper after Norwich had two bids rejected, but he expects to see new signing Tom Rogic in Glasgow as soon as today.
The 20-year-old midfielder signed a four-and-a-half-year contract in moving from Central Coast Mariners for about £400,000.
Lennon said: “I am hoping he will be back today or tomorrow. He has been away getting authorised by the British Embassy, he may be available for the weekend.”
People on here were swearing the Huns would be re-admitted straight into the SPL, . Guys were threatening to stop following The Celts cos they knew our Board were going to be complicit in letting them in. It never happened. Similarly they were going to be fast tracked back, people quitting again, our Board complicit again, never happened. When Sevco do reach the top tier if our Board talked about welcoming a return of The Old Firm, which they were likely to, mass desertions threatened again. A week later our Board issues a statement referring to the last game as being the LAST Old Firm & bigging up our 125 Yr UNBROKEN history. People are constantly conjuring up worst case scenario’s and causing unnecessary worry & anxiety. One of the things I learned in my 65 yrs on the Planet is that over 90% of the things we worry about, never happen..
timmy7_noted
And sites like fallow fallow that give them a platform to peddle their bile
Where de %&* did that S come from?
English FA of course
Yes Bawsman
Which means if the letter of the law was correctly enforced then
Old Co should have been relegated years ago with stripped
cheated titles and made to return the fraudulent money they
won by way of deception and cover up’s the whole matter
stinks and old/new co will now always be branded cheats
and liars and of course Scotland’s shame simple as that
corkcelt @ 17.38
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Spot on
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Good evening friends. Too windy for running even for a finely tuned athlete like me! Going to have a full fry-up instead!
Burgas Hoops
17:37 on
29 January, 2013
AKBW1888
17:29 on
Bulgaria gets proper summers
As we native’s say “Bulgarski” -)))
Yes Bulgar Ski in the Winter but proper Summer’s
with temperatures reaching thirty Celsius and
beyond you know I’m correct-e-mundey not like
Scotland’s 10 – 18 Celsius and that’s what they
call Summer over here
Ha, that’s like winter in Spain
Are the SPL bound to implement the LNS decision?
corkcelt – well said that man!
Jobo Baldie
17:49 on
29 January, 2013
Good evening friends. Too windy for running even for a finely tuned athlete like me! Going to have a full fry-up instead!
Good Evening Jobo and quite right with the fry-up although I don’t
think your health dietician would recommend it they would rather
have you eating no taste to cheese and no sugar myth Yogurts
which no doubt they probably have shares in those types of
Companies
corkcelt
17:38 on 29 January, 2013
You’ll have seen what the Great Desmondo had to say about the demise of the huns.
I didn’t find any great comfort in what he had to say.
The board made no comment on the situation at the time.
The comment on the club website only appeared a long time after it was all done and dusted.
The evidence suggests that it was the smaller clubs, pushed by their fans, who did for the huns, not Celtic.
Someone saying after reading the so called leaked draft of the 5 way stitch up ,that the contractual admissions in the FTT case concerns 5 players involved in 40 games ,if true could this be the outcome of some hand rubbing in a smoke filled members clubs .
What has me worried is that there seems to be a bit in the 5 way stitch up that requests Sevco to agree to the EBT /dual contract inquiries but that they know of no other inquiries that sevco have to abide by .What about the WTC that was admitted by ragers and involved 4 players in over 100 games over a 4 yr period .
It may well be my lack of trust regards Scottish football Authorities but with the stench of utter corruption wafting through the corridors lately I fear the worst