The Scottish Premier League has acted with clarity, issuing a statement today that they have instructed an inquiry into the alleged non-disclosure of payments to the league by Rangers since the inception of the SPL on 1 July 1998.
The SPL statement refers to rules to “impose a prohibition on players receiving payments for playing football or participating in an activity connected with football except where such payments are made in accordance with a form of contract approved by the SPL and require that all such contracts are submitted to the SPL within 14 days of being entered into.”
They helpfully link to The Rules of the SPL, which is sure to be one of the most read regulation documents in the world this week.
Compare and contrast this action with the goings-on at the Scottish Football Association.
SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan, told Scotland on Sunday the association president, Campbell Ogilvie, is “heavily conflicted” on the subject of the investigation into Rangers and as such would not be a party to conclusions, saying, “Campbell won’t play any part in any meeting, discussion or conclusion on any activities surrounding Rangers”.
It would, of course, be helpful for Mr Ogilvie to tell his SFA colleges exactly what went on when he was general secretary and director of Rangers. His evidence should be an integral part of the investigation, unless his memory is less effective than fellow ex-Rangers director, Hugh Adam.
Regan spent some of last week dismissing demands for a comment on allegations that Rangers have improperly registered football players for over a decade by suggesting matters concerning the club were under investigation, headed by Lord Nimmo Smith, which is due to report this week. However, it appears that Nimmo Smith’s secret terms of reference do not include the most important question surrounding the club. On the subject of improper registration, Regan said, “The board will meet to discuss it within a week or maybe slightly longer. Very, very quickly the board will get together to consider the facts.”
Scotland on Sunday’s Tom English induced a variety of reactive quotes from Regan. Asked if the SFA would hold an inquiry into Rangers contracts, he said, “That will depend on the board’s view of the facts and what information is there. The situation is changing daily and new information is emerging all the time. We’ve got our hands on certain pieces of information and we’re exploring it and we’re asking for further information. By the time the board meets we will have a fuller picture and if it’s the board’s opinion that they want a fuller investigation then that will be an option. If they feel they have enough facts to draw some conclusions then that will be their decision.”
So now we know that Lord Nimmo Smith’s report is likely to ignore the main issue surrounding Rangers. Without SFA clarification, we can only guess it will address the Fit and Proper suitability of Craig Whyte to own a football club, surely a complete waste of resources.
We also know that the association might still decide against investigating the evidence of Hugh Adam, The Sun newspaper, and various other journalists, that second contracts exist.
The SFA cannot be dragged along behind the story like this. Like the SPL, it should issue an early statement of intent to investigate the serious allegations made about Rangers during their president’s time on the club’s board.
Step up, Mr Regan.
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Bob
I saw Bonnie Raitt in Armadillo, Glasgow around 2005 and she talked aout her Scottish relatives. She brought a Scottish fiddle player on stage.
That was a very old video but the song stands up today and album is great.
Try “Silver Lining” from 2002, some nice guitar work and good songs.
HH and I hiope your nightshift is not too heavy.
RWE
Fergus McCann – Celtic Hero
by The artist formerly known as ‘ The Floating Voter’
As we approach the 18th anniversary of the Fergus McCann rescue of Celtic FC it is interesting to cast our minds back to those turbulent times. The contrast between the McCann take over and the Whyte debacle over at Ibrox is quite simply stunning. For case studies into “how to” and “how not to” take over a football club please refer to McCann, Fergus and Whyte, Craig. If anybody ever writes that book, I’ll buy it.
When Brian Dempsey stood at the entrance to Celtic Park on March 4th 1994 and uttered the historic words, ‘The game is over. The rebels have won’ Celtic Football Club as an entity changed forever. No longer was the club run by the ‘custodians’ of the Whyte and Kelly dynasties it was now, primarily, in the hands of a wee guy in a bunnet, Mr Fergus McCann.
McCann was a genuine white knight, riding to the rescue of Celtic in her hour of need. The Bank, we were later to learn, was within a few minutes of shutting the doors of Celtic Park and declaring the club bankrupt.
The old Board had simply run out of money, ideas and time. The club had a £5 million overdraft facility and it had exceeded even that. The Bank of Scotland has informed the club that it intended to call in the receivers. That figure may seem ridiculous these days when you consider the amounts owed by other SPL clubs. To be fair to the Whyte and Kelly families at least the tax man had been paid everything that he was due.
Chris Whyte and Michael Kelly then indicated that they would sell their shares in the club to Gerald Weisfeld. He was a recent name on the scene, one who had pledged to pay off £3 million of the overdraft. This was, apparently, acceptable the bank. However, neither Tom Grant or Kevin Kelly were willing to sell their shares to Weisfeld and the deal fell apart.
Things were looking bleak. The media were licking their lips in anticipation. Column inch after column inch weren’t written about how much Rangers needed Celtic FC to survive. The Scottish Office were silent as were the SFA. It looked like Celtic FC were about to die and no-one outside the Celtic family gave a damn.
Finally the old board cracked. On the 3rd of March four directors, Tom Grant, Kevin Kelly, Jack McGinn and James Farrell informed the Bank of Scotland that they favoured the offer from Fergus McCann to take over the club. As this quartet represented a majority of the old board the bank was obliged to agree to the proposal.
The very next day at the Bank of Scotland in Glasgow’s Trongate Fergus McCann took control of Celtic Football Club and things would never be the same again.
Celtic had been eight minutes from being declared bankrupt.
Fergus cleared the debt and declared that would give us three things during his time at the helm.
He would rebuild Celtic Park, not at Cambuslang or anywhere else, but where it should be, in Paradise.
He would give Celtic to the fans, with a share offer.
He would put a team on the park that would once again be challenging for the top honours.
It would be point three that would prove contentious in the next few years, but I’ll get to that later. He also said that he would be at the helm of the club for five years after which he would offer his shares up for sale to the support.
Almost immediately plans were made public showing how Celtic Park was to be rebuilt. The only difficulty was obtaining somewhere for the Hoops to play their football in season 1994/95. Hampden was the only real option but Queen’s Park were being extremely uncooperative. McCann later recalled a visit to a Queen’s Park solicitor to sign an agreement to rent the National Stadium. The solicitor stated: “It’s been made quite clear to me by certain parties that this clause is a deal breaker.”
The clause in question was one that forbade Celtic from flying any “foreign” flags at any matches played at Hampden. For “foreign” read “Irish”. It was never made clear exactly who these “certain parties” were but it is abundantly clear that these people reside in the top echelons of Scottish football. Or, at least they did in 1994.
And interference in the new Celtic project didn’t stop there. Following the Lord Taylor Report there was finance available from the Football Trust to assist clubs in their quest to provide all-seater stadiums. Sunderland FC had received £5 million, Hampden itself had benefited to the value of £10 million. In a move that stank of ancient bitterness the SFA actively blocked all efforts made by Celtic to obtain anything more than the basic £2 million “new grandstand” grant. For a national association to take a stance in opposition to one of its member clubs is both an embarrassment and a disgrace. This was not money that was coming out of the SFA’s own coffers and even after the passing years it can only be described as a petty, nasty, decision whose origins can easily be guessed at.
Despite the obstructions the new Celtic Park rose from the ruins of the old at good pace and the giant 27 000 seat new North Stand was opened in time for the start of the 1995/96 season. Celtic were back where they belonged and they were bringing with them an old friend. The final game at Hampden was one that must have hurt all those that made our stay there difficult. Pierre Van Hooijdonk’s majestic header from a perfect Tosh McKinlay cross had been enough to beat Airdrie and win the Scottish Cup. It was our first trophy in six years and the thirtieth time that the old cup had left Hampden with green and white ribbons on it.
On the financial side things were moving along at some pace. The Bank of Scotland continued to be unsympathetic despite being offered the chance to continue as Celtic’s banking partner under the new regime. Despite the huge investment by McCann and his associates and the impending share issue the bank offered a paltry £2.5 million pound loan which would be fully secured. Fergus saw this as an insult to what they were trying to achieve and promptly moved all Celtic’s banking to the Co-op bank. Despite this being a relatively small bank they provided McCann with a £10 million line of credit.
McCann reconstituted the then privately owned Celtic Football & Athletic Company as a public limited company, Celtic PLC – which resulted in the most successful stock market flotations in British football financial history. Despite the major newspapers in Scotland claiming that the share issue would be a failure the Celtic fans, as usual, came good. Fergus McCann would later recall, “looking out my window at the crowd standing in the car park, in a queue to buy shares in Celtic – many with borrowed money………..by the next day, when the offer had closed, “£10 million had been raised from 10 000 supporters. I remember feeling a heavy burden of responsibility. I could not let those people down.”
In total the share issue generated £14 million and this ultimately led to the full redevelopment of Celtic Park into a 60,832 all-seater stadium. At the time it was the biggest and best stadium in Britain. It’s still the best but the total capacity now lags behind Manchester United who expanded their Old Trafford Stadium to 67 000 in order to satisfy their dented ego.
On the pitch Fergus McCann had inherited a bit of a mess. The old board had appointed Lou Macari in what the bunnet had called a “publicity stunt” and he had used his knowledge of the lower leagues in England to sign players of the caliber of Wayne Biggins and Carl Muggleton. This, more than anything, had indicated the problems that the club were facing at the time. McCann wanted rid of Macari. He insisted that the football manager should move from his base in England to be closer to Celtic Park. Macari refused and effectively loaded the metaphorical gun. Fergus took no time in taking aim and pulling the metaphorical trigger putting Macari’s short, unsuccessful, tenure as Celtic manger at an end.
To be fair to Macari he went down fighting, suing the club for £400 000 for what he saw as unfair dismissal. It was to end in yet another defeat for Lou Macari only this time it was in the courts. The Judge, Lady Cosgrove said in her summing up, “The residence term was important and Mr. Macari’s breach of the clause was no technicality but was contributing to an unsatisfactory situation where he was absent from Celtic Park for much of the week……(Macari) had been guilty of a willful and continuing act of disobedience of a legitimate and reasonable order of the employer.”
Despite some misgivings from Fergus, who favoured a European style management team, Tommy Burns was appointed as the next Celtic manager. Tommy was, obviously, a dyed in the wool Celtic man and this was a hugely popular choice with the Celtic support. It was probably too early in his managerial career, and Tommy acknowledged this but it was an opportunity he couldn’t turn down.
It was a poor Celtic side that Tommy Burns and Billy Stark inherited and they set about a huge rebuilding job. Tommy was a football man first and foremost and his passion for putting the best Celtic team on the pitch that he could assemble set him at odds with McCann almost right from the start. The manager was constantly frustrated with what he saw as Fergus McCann’s lack of passion for the game. For his part, Fergus was focused on dealing with the utter shambles left behind by the pervious board. His task was juggling the three tasks, all as important as each other, of rebuilding the team, rebuilding the stadium and managing the share issue.
As supporters all we were worried about was the team on the pitch. With hindsight it’s fair to say that Fergus McCann had some pretty big fish to fry but it was a source of frustration for the support throughout his five year tenure.
The three year reign of Tommy Burns only produced the one trophy, the Scottish Cup mentioned above. However that wasn’t the half of it. He transformed the team and the style of play. We were treated to some of the finest football seen at Celtic Park since the glory days of the Lisbon Lions but the final step to being a team that won regularly stayed infuriatingly elusive for the support and management.
Burns and Stark left in 1997 and were replaced by Wim Jansen and Murdo Macleod. McCann finally got his way with the management team as, former TV commentator and lawyer, Jock Brown became the Director of Football. Brown was not a popular appointment due to his footballing allegiances. At the press conference that announced his appointment Brown was asked directly about what team he supported. In typical lawyer fashion he avoided the question by answering that there was now “no bigger Celtic supporter than me.” It did nothing to lessen the suspicion the support felt towards Brown.
The new management team added some new faces to an already strong squad. Lambert, Burley and a guy called Larsson provided the difference on the park and the team went on to win both the League Cup and, significantly, the League title. Significant because it stopped Rangers winning ten in a row. Significant because Rangers were stuck on nine in a row, equaling the record we had set under Jock Stein. Rangers had become the Buzz Aldrin of Scottish Football.
Unfortunately a year later Wim was gone. He resigned only a couple of days after the title was captured. The working relationship between the Dutchman and McCann had completely broken down. McCann claimed that had Jansen now quit, he would have been dismissed. Accusations flew back and forth and, probably, not surprisingly the support sided with Jansen. As is usual in these situations there were faults on both sides but we were unaware of what went on behind the scenes.
Things came to a head at the unveiling of the League Flag at the start of the next season. McCann and Brown were booed in an unedifying scene that divides Celtic supporters to this day. My own position is that it spoiled, what should have been, a great occasion. Whatever grievances the support had against McCann and Brown should have been reserved for another occasion, another day.
So, for McCann’s final year in charge we were to have yet another new face at the helm. Dr Jo Venglos snuck in under the radar and was a real wild card. He was labeled “Dr Who” by the Daily Record which only went on to expose their level of ignorance when it came to European coaching. Venglos was due to stay for only one year and then move upstairs into the Director of Football role. Unfortunately Dr Venglos was unable to bring any silverware back to Paradise but he did provide us with the genius that was Lubo Moravcik and we also had the glorious spectacle of the 5-1 massacre of Rangers at Celtic Park.
As it turned out Venglos and McCann left Celtic Park at around the same time. Dr Jo was unique in his role at Celtic Park, he actually got on well with McCann. Fergus sold his shares, as he had promised to do (and made a healthy profit at the same time) at the end of his tenure and boarded a plane back to Canada.
Fergus McCann continues to divide the support but I believe he should be hailed as a true Celtic hero. Without Fergus we can only shudder to think where the club would be today. Would Celtic FC even exist at all? Probably, but in what guise?
I believe that without Fergus there would have been no cheerio-to-ten-in-a-row, no glory run to Seville, no 5-1, no 6-2, no Martin O’Neill and probably no Henrik Larsson. Before Fergus rescued the club we were scrambling about trying to snatch a European slot and hoping for a once-a-season win over Rangers. Fergus McCann put us back on the one road. The road to where we are today. He picked us up from the gutter and gave us the tools that would enable us to make the club powerful once again.
Remember too, the way that he was treated by the media. Remember the Daily Record front page that had a picture of Fergus beside that of Saddam Hussein and the headline that said that one was a ruthless dictator and the other was the ruler of Iraq. The media were relentless in their attacks on McCann during his five year stay. They knew what he was doing at Celtic and it terrified them.
It’s certainly true that the Scots/Canadian was difficult to get on with. He was straight to the point, rude you might say but he had a plan for Celtic and no-one was going to get in his way. He was the right man for the right time and I, for one, will always be grateful for what he did, and put in place, for the club I love.
In the history of Celtic I think that there were three genuine giants:
Brother Walfrid, Jock Stein and Fergus McCann
Summa
Summa
Where is this from?
thanks in advance
HH
RWE
Summa of Sammi…. on 6 March, 2012 at 03:34 said:
“Rangers had become the Buzz Aldrin of Scottish Football.”
….like it!
Was Gerald Weisfield Craig Whyte in disguise? or possibly are Craig and Chris related?
Hmmmmmm the thought plickens!
I was one of those 10000
anyways as for Fergus…Legend!
..yeah ..where is this from?
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Sorry Bhoys..
Courtesy Celtic Hub..
Rushed Day..;0)
Summa
Summa of Sammi…. on 6 March, 2012 at 03:34 said:
Thanks,Summa.
All of those events occurred while I was in Oz.
Didn`t know the history.
Giants?
The Kelly family. Father and son.
Morning Celts so the true state of the Huns plight is now being published ( see BAbasonica’s post and link to the telegraph), the end is nigh mi amigos.
V
I meant Southbhiys post at 00:29 for the telegraph article.
V
Macjay1, I noticed you’re post about the utd game on Setanta OZ , tuned into it and thought Utd look like an improved team, we need to be at our best to beat them next weekend.
Maybe it’s early signs of the other Scottish clubs resurgence, things may improve on the football front after the demise of the Hun in admin.
Got to go amigo.
V
Southbhoys post
Am I posting on the wrong article :>)
nice morning on the coast of NW engerlund.
V
Good morning friends from East Kilbride where it’s another dry but frosty start to the day.
Jobo
Vmhan 6.09
Just got in from work on a thirsty day in Sydney.
United looked the biz right enough.
Strangely,while of course I want a win,I feel a strange kind of generosity to the other Scottish clubs,now that it looks as if the hun ba` is up on the slates.
Bizarre,I know.
Hope yer boys are enjoying Oz.
As it’s weather time that gives me the perfect excuse to let you all know that it is a glorious morning here on the beach overlooking a stunning lagoon the south of Mauritius!
Life can be tough a times.
Just been in the hotel shop. Lots of Dodo related stuff as you would imagine but none in a Rangers strip just yet. I’m told they are now in production. Anyone want one?
Blimey, this coffee is good!
Ian58 appreciate that (I think), although the suns coming up here, the car needs the auld scraper this morning, still in aw …. Home made soup for breakfast will fortify me.
V
Macjay1 aye they’re both having a ball, the youngest 12 months stay is up in April, he doesn’t want to come home, loves it.
V
Top of the morning to you all from Fife where the day is breaking with a sky bathed in pink shades. Not the spectacular crimson/orange job but beautiful in a subtle sort of way.
Sorry about that I just got a bit carried away there but it is a dry cold and frosty morning which is about right for the time of year.
I hope the saying about “when thieves fall out” proves accurate. What is it anyway?
I reckon that when the big tax case goes against the Huns there will be one or two players who were beneficiaries of EBTs who will want to get their excuses in quickly before the taxman comes looking for them. Then things will really go off the scale.
When is D-Day on the big tax case?
Good morning fellow Celts from the 0631 to Waterloo
Clear blue skies but light frost and a nip in the air…
The tax cases seem like a sideshow now as someone already pointed out. Makes you wonder about all those high profile ex players in the media blabbing on about dignity …when they knew all along about the systematic cheating that they may have been involved in due to the 2 part contracts in their hip Pocket. As they sat in the make up room or completed the sound check did they ever consider they might be exposed one day? Or did they feel invincible …
I’ll bet they are not feeling quite as secure or smug as they prepare for bed these days
Their non-playing media colleagues must be afraid of what they know or knew…if someone seeks to influence you to do their bidding and looks after you for being helpful…it seems to me there will be a trail somewhere that would prove to be somewhat embarrassing …if discovered
Someone once told me never to give your accountant everything…because it they ever came under scrutiny they would give up the small guy to protect the big guy…it’s how the game is played.
Right now there must be a few of the wee guys worrying that someone is making a decision to sacrifice them
Our best hope is that they panic and seek immunity from prosecution…and give us a boady!
I expect conversations are taking place along those lines already … The Dutch are well known for iconoclastic tendencies…they lean forward….sometimes just because they can!
Maybe all those tangerine strips at Hampden in honour of all the Netherlands contingent will come back to haunt some of the big boys…
I always have a wee chuckle at the origins of the Spanish Netherlands :)
Have a great day
HH
M
They’re whyte and they know they are. I’m dreaming of a whyte Christmas will never be the same again. Are the blue knights the whyte nights pimps. Every day is another fun day. Just when it looks like getting quiet it combusts into a rearaging bonfire. A few of the people will be trying hard not to get burned. I am looking forward to the last stage, the end, the in fighting, the traitors gallows and the indignity of being stripped of everything that matters. Great to see the wagons not circling around Swally’s last stand.Even more I am looking forward to Lenny and the bhoys lifting the trebel so don’t take the eyes off the prizes Celtic. SPL Flag then Killie then round it off in May for the season finale. Do any of the division three teams wear green as a colour. If not it would be wise to invest in the future and the future is green. Hail Hail. It’s good to be a Tim.
A grey, but fairly bright morning here in North Ayrshire.
Will today be yet another day of prevarication by these strange administrators?
I wonder what wonders of administration we will be afforded today by those in authority at
Rangers FC PLC (in Pontification)
MWD
Rangers in administration: Gary Withey’s whereabouts unknown after he quits Collyer Bristow
Gary Withey – Rangers company secretary and the man described by the Ibrox administrators as “a person of crucial importance” in their attempts to save the club from extinction – has quit as a partner at his law firm and has not been seen by his associates since Feb 24, Telegraph Sport can reveal.
By Roddy Forsyth
7:00AM GMT 06 Mar 2012
Withey was a high flier at Collyer Bristow, the London solicitors employed by Craig Whyte to process his takeover of Rangers last May – he was named as one of the Hot 100 Lawyers of 2012 by The Lawyer magazine – and was appointed secretary at Rangers when Whyte assumed control.
On Friday Collyer Bristow assured Telegraph Sport that Withey was still a partner but yesterday they admitted that his partnership had, in fact, been dissolved on Thursday.
Although Withey had accepted his appointment as Rangers’ secretary on a personal basis, the law firm’s website featured a page devoted to his Ibrox connection.
By yesterday afternoon all reference to him was removed from the website. Moreover, on Friday Collyer Bristow indicated that they knew where Withey was but a spokesman for the firm said yesterday: “We have been in contact with Gary but we have no knowledge of his whereabouts – communications are by email.
“He has left for personal and family reasons. Gary and his family are under a lot of pressure.”
I understand that Withey told colleagues that he had been the subject of serious threats from Rangers supporters and that this was reported to the Metropolitan Police. It appears that he then moved to hotel outside London and stopped using his mobile phone.
However, last night a spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: “We have checked all the sources available to us at the moment and we have no knowledge of this, I’m afraid.”
Strathclyde Police said that it would normally expect to be notified by another force of any threats emanating from within their area, but that no such communication has been received.
It is understood that Withey failed to attend a meeting last Wednesday and although Collyer Bristow have evidently been in communication with him by email for 10 days they have not attempted to identify his location by checking his IP address.
“He might be in this country or he might not – we simply do not know,” said the Collyer Bristow source.
On Withey’s deleted company website page, the former partner – who is a member of the exclusive Hurlingham Polo Association – said: “I enjoy adrenalin sports, I play low goal polo and have an official handicap and I also sail small racing catamarans. I knew since the age of 10, that I wanted to be a lawyer.”
Rangers’ administrators – Duff and Phelps – last week won a court order to seize £3.6 million from a client account held by Whyte at Collyer Bristow. Other claimants are contesting the money and a court judgment is expected to be delivered on Thursday in London.
Meanwhile, Paul Clark, one of Rangers’ joint administrators, stated last night that he and his colleague, David Whitehouse, had not been able to agree with the club’s players how cuts to the squad should proceed.
“Everyone involved in the administration process has been attempting to reach a consensual solution in regard to job losses within the playing squad,” said Clark. “The prime reason for this has been to achieve essential cost savings while preserving the fabric of the first team.
“Every realistic option is being explored. Regrettably, it has not been possible thus far to reach a consensus where players could accept the necessary level of wage cuts to prevent job losses within the squad.
“For clarity, we cannot enforce wage cuts. The players have to agree to this course of action. The players have asked us to consider a final proposal overnight for discussion in the morning and we have agreed to this request.”
Papers freely talking now of titles being stripped and liquidation with drop to 3rd division. What has changed in a month? Not a lot except the guilty parties can’t plug all the leaks which are springing up. Without the internet, without the likes of CQN, KDS and Phil, this would have been airbrushed over like a Stalin Kodak moment.
Summa of Sammi…. on 6 March, 2012 at 03:34 said:
Summa-great post, only second to the writings of Voguepunter :-)
Seriously though, history will reflect deservedly so, fondly and kindly on what McCann did. A few bhoys have mentioned previously that we need to right and wrong and ask Fergus to unfurl the league flag in August. I would proudly support that.
HH
CRC
Right a wrong!!!
Doh
Hector / MWD,
Not sure Rangers would appreciate the word ‘Pontif-‘ appearing beside their name. Too papey for them.
Diary of twists n turns – aged 50 and a bit….
Tue March 6th 2012.
Woke up this morning and quickly realised this feeling of joy I have been experiencing since Feb 14th was still with me. This makes me happy to be alive. As I read the morning press online, over breakfast, even my grapefruit tastes sweet. There is talk of titles being stripped. It also appears that this vile repugnant organisation that is RFC will be a few employees lighter today, and will take a step closer to oblivion.
I question myself briefly as to whether it is wrong to revel in people losing their jobs, but only briefly. It is for the greater good.
There is so much to read and digest, but alas I must get ready for work. I don’t really want to be working today, I would rather stay in font of my TV and pc and await more news, a bit like the time I watched in awe and waited for Apollo 11 land on the moon, but I have taxes to pay so must go and earn an honest crust.
Till later………………..
Morning all
Celtfish…
2 tickets for me for Swindon FC charity do so far….
Cheers
tic tock
Good morning to all from a bright sunny MK.
It was only a matter of time before the survival instinct kicked-in with the journos and it’s no real surprise to see Tom English’s forthright comments on the 2 contracts helping him distance himself from toxic-rangers.
I have no wish to see anybody lose a job and it is of little or no consequence to me when the administrators at Rangers start to act. In fact I’d like to see all the Rangers staff keep their jobs until the end of the season as it would neuter the ridiculous charge of a ‘tainted’ title.
HECTOR – Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Eating Jelly & Ice Cream. Awe Naw… on 6 March, 2012 at 07:39:
I predict redundancies, why!
If Tom & Jerry (Dubbs and Phelps) were to agree the 75, 50 & 25% wage cuts they are effectively deferring wages; this in my opinion will not happen. It probably lead to constructive breach of their Contracts. Secondly given their cas flow problems it is not a good option.
Tom & Jerry can do anything they want but when a Contract is broken, Bosman kicks in.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
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BigJoelovingALLofthis
Butchers throughout Scotland have advised the price of certain cuts of meat will plummet in the coming days,
apparently this is due to a downturn in the purchase of succulent lamb.
The SFA are investigating,
an outcome is not expected anytime soon.
Does deferring wages not just add to the clubs debts!? They cant do that can they??
Murdochbhoy…..you in Milton Keynes?
HH
tic tock
tic tock,
Yeah, I live in the Wolveton/Stony Stratford area.
This talk of tainted titles is just that, it is talk,
for any journos or even ex players out there searching for tainted titles to discuss then search back in the Scottish Footballing history books,there are many to see, at this stage lets not think of the ones tainted by organisational cheating, can I suggest making a start when the great moustachio darkened these shores……
You know you wanna.
Really you do
When does the investigation into the Administrators start?
murdochbhoy on 6 March, 2012 at 08:09 said:
tic tock,
Yeah, I live in the Wolveton/Stony Stratford area.
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Hail hail from Bicester Rd, Aylesbury!