The premier business paper where Uefa is headquartered in Nyon, Tribune de Geneve, today ran an advert, paid for by public subscription, questioning the governance of Scottish football.
The advert asked readers to reference The Offshore Game report: Doing SFA for Fair Play and explained some of the issues governance, accountability and oversight in Scottish football. It reads:
“A report by The Offshore Game (TOG), an arm of The Tax Justice Network (TJN), has highlighted examples of poor SFA governance in respect of:
• A Commission established in 2012 by the Scottish Premier League to investigate the use of employee benefit trusts to reduce the tax paid to HMRC by an SFA member club where the SFA provided key testimony which is now being questioned.
• The processing of a UEFA Licence in 2011 by The SFA when Court Officers called to collect overdue tax from a member club between Champions League and Europa League qualifying games. Proving there were no overdue and unpaid taxes was a condition of granting then retaining a licence to compete in both UEFA competitions. The tax concerned was never paid!
• The SFA have neither commented on the TJN report nor attempted to address the issues it raises. The TJN has called for an independent review of the SFA to make it more accountable.
• A group of shareholders of Celtic PLC acting in terms of Resolution 12 of the Celtic PLC AGM of 2013, have been pressing the SFA for over two years for a satisfactory explanation of their administration of the UEFA licensing process in 2011. In the absence of any meaningful reply they have now taken up the case with the UEFA Club Financial Control Body.
The TOG report highlights the financial cost over a decade to the British Taxpayer in Millions of pounds. The cost to Scottish football in terms of the loss of trust placed in the SFA to govern the Scottish game with integrity is incalculable.
Football fans everywhere are invited to read this important report into the game in Scotland.”
Our game suffers from a perceived lack of oversight, accountability and governance; fundamental requirements in modern sport which have been painfully lacking across world football for decades. Uefa now have an opportunity to measure where Scottish football, and their own processes, are on these metrics.
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!!BADA BING!! on 1ST JUNE 2016 11:16 PM
Do you think that supporters who go, watch and support their team should listen to views on the team from those who do not watch the team. ?
General question.
HH.
Sandy Bryson practicing in the mirror…
‘An overdue payable cannot be overdue if it was never paid by the company. The club didn’t have an overdue payable and the cow jumped over the moon…. damn it start again.’
An overdue payable….damn it Stuart can we not just blame UEFA or Craig Whyte?
LennyBhoy – since everyone is pals again, thought it only right to say…
…I don’t know you, but have much appreciated reading your posts later this evening describing your disappointment?/frustration? – but also the pains you have went to to express your support for what WC and Res 12 chaps have been engaged in – fair play to you.
Everyone – keep the faith. Seems, from WC and James Forrest comments that even more is afoot than we imagine.
It’s the blasted anticipation that sets the nerves on edge…
HH
BGFC
Did That job come off or are you still in limbo,
Oh by the why I’m talking to all the fannies and they know who they are.
The PC brigade, don’t sing this and don’t say that.
The assholes.
Night night champions……Aff tae ma scratcher and perchance to dream…..
Winning the sweep is a revolution raffle…….
Braw
I know Sandy deals with player misadministration so some artistic licence there.
Seriously though UEFA took rRangers word for it that there was no overdue payable or UEFA didn’t see it as overdue or did and allowed them to proceed?
And the SFA washed their hands of it from March 30th? You are having a giraffe. What other e-mails do we have up our sleeve?
JAZZ is my second favourite word, after flange
Just read James Forrest’s article.
I think that the SFA are the ones who need to be dealt with as Res12 is trying to do. Rangers died as a result of their crimes and that’s pretty much as bad things can get for a club.
The problem for Scottish football is that although we all know it is corrupt and run by a bunch of incompetent cronies cheered on by the stupid, cowardly f**k-wits in the press, it is all to easy for them to just keep on ignoring this. The only hope is that the criminal courts and Uefa do something but can we really believe that these institutions are willing to rock the boat. Uefa has many skeletons in the closet and the SFA has many henchmen placed in strategic places within the European game even though some have been proven to be wholly inappropriate appointments, like the bigoted Hugh Dallas and the world’s greatest administrator of dodgy tax schemes, Campbell Ogilvie. The courts have a great record of not dealing with abuses of power.
Greenpinata,
My old man is 86, followed the bhoys home and away for the majority of his lifetime and for the last 7/8 years has no been fit enough to go “watch the team”, are you asking if I should give his opinion of the play he gets to watch on the telly less credence that yours because you managed to get to the game ?
Are you suggesting my old man is any less a Celtic supporter or qualified than you to have an option, because you and those you call real Celtic supporters can attend games ?
Really, really, because that’s what you are saying in you own inimitable arrogance. Backtracking now will look weak so stick to your guns and make exclusions, open to all that can afford and are fit enough to attend, aye very good, a real inclusive dude.
Braw.
Insomnia alone is a struggle… Celtic should never be a struggle.
Take care folks. Be good. Live it. Feel it. Be the best you.
-Tambo
Now we have some money.
If it could be arranged to send Auldheid and BRTH all the was to Switzerland to meet with the chaos who drank their coffee this morning, read their copy of Tribune de Geneve and opened that big brown envelope that had arrived in the morning post.
Who says oui?
Oui.
Ryanair of course.
Winning Captains
You know these Celtic haters have re-emerged after Desmond stumped them with the BR signing. Now they have had time to recompose its back to the boards fault again.
CFC have their hands tied on this it is up to the fans and people power to keep it moving
I’m sure the board will say their bit when the right time comes in the meantime the people can fight the good fight cos Celtic crowdfunding works pal
HH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Wah7MqEHFg
Mibies oui mibies naw
I can lend them a tent if they want to camp on Uefa’s lawn as well. Should be ok for 2 old warriors.
Naw
WC – certainment.
Oui
Night night big chap
Keep the nonsense coming, and you know what they say.
I can smell —-
Fill in the blank
Canamalar,
Not like you to fabricate an argument when there is none.
Backtrack on what? You and I both know that we were discussing ” supporters” who have the resources, the ability and the finances to watch Celtic, but choose not to.
I sincerely hope you adopt a less confrontational and common sense attitude on other matters.
HH.
WINNING CAPTAINS on 1ST JUNE 2016 11:44 PM
Can you keep your head when all around are losing theirs` and blaming it on you ?
:-)
Go for it , pal.
Be sure the silent majority are with you.
I am oui……
Braw .
Noo I am aw . Before AGCR finds oot we have raffled his bottle…….hahahahahaha
Braw
Winning Captains, nicely done.
Thumbs up!!!!!!!!!!!!
Macjay, the silent majority need to get vocal.
Night all.
Remember, the bad guys aren’t in here, well apart from…………………
Laters.
Keep posting tambourineman……us Celts love the struggle……
Smiley thing..
Braw
winning captains on 1st June 2016 11:44 pm
My vote is yes to a pre-arranged meeting between UEFA decision-makers and any/all Res12ers but no to a 21st century Darien Scheme.
DR RAMESH AND THE LOVE POTION on
I see your point. It’s a very valid one, at that.
However, ‘they’ are in a boat which is getting smaller. That boat has more and more folks jumping on. That boat is always going to rock and hopefully it’ll tip and the dirt will end up in the water… not only to be cleaned, but to be absofuckinglutely exposed as the main poisons of all ‘this’ (not just scottish football) toxic corruption which has affected so many while hiding behing the brotherhood!
I’ve already said more than I wanted to.
Just know, that folks appreciate things. The big stuff, the small stuff, the inbetween stuff. It all makes something special.
I hope the Res12 folks do the right thing. I hope everyone else stands by them…. and stand together! No matter what!
-Tambo
After a huge storm as a result of cheating and dodging, 4 friends set off to make people listen and to seek justice…
“Oh No Toto.. we’re at a Crossroads.. Which way to the Emerald City??
If we take the wrong road, were doomed and we’ll never get back to the level playing field.. we need to carry on despite the wicked cheats of the west… Lets take this path, its Green and White and its built on morals and ethics and fair play.. It Must Be The Right Path.. C’mon Scarecrow, C’mon Tin Man, C’mon Lion……..
Ohhhhhhhhh were off to see UEFA , to get them to hear our case….. Because Because Because Because Becauuuuuuuuuse, Because of the Wonderful C Q N………….”
NEUSTADT-BRAW on 2ND JUNE 2016 12:06 AM
Cheers. I am a quiet kinda guy and don’t usually dare post, but the times they are ‘a changing :)
Hail hail to you & all!
-Tambo
Greenpinata,
Yyou never answered my question, should I tell my da to stop offering his opinion because he can’t get to Celtic Park anymore ?
Winning Captains,
I will say ‘OUI’, absolootleee. I’ll say AYE louder and be even prouder when the work is done…. I won’t forget.
All those involved in the good fight, I doff my cap. Real, hard & beautiful folks. Keep it rollin’ and fight the fight!
-Tambo (something in my eye)
Disappointed to see flak directed at Winning Captains. He, and Los Cuatros Heroes, are deserving only of our utmost appreciation and admiration for their efforts on our behalf.
Any minor points can be dealt with by email or, better still, after EUFA has adjudicated.
If we have waited four years surely a few days longer is not a big ask.
If the Board does not do its part then each and everyone of them can expect a right hard time at AGM and a failure to sell season tickets in the future.
CQNers living abroad might consider using points from the advert to write letters to local newspapers in the relevant language on the general topic of “Governance in Sport”. This might be of special interest in USA where there is a focus on corruption in sport at present. HH
An teach..,
All well and good but talking American usually involve brown envelopes in lobbies
Canamalar
Your correct,lam 70 years young,,but I think my opinion is relevant I don’t attend matches anymore but I still spend every moment thinking about our team
Fanad..,
I told you a million tines no to exaggerate :)
Sometimes the arrogance is breathtaking, then the backlash because it’s assumed everyone should know how the arrogant think is so obvious.
Naw, if my input on here has showd anything it’s that we don’t all think or make the same assumptions ffs how much more offence do I need to cause :)
Oh an fanad.., the WANs in the green and white hoops are your team remember they won a big cup or something, away back in history or something like that, I think they won the war too :)
Hail Hail bruv, be opinionated till you chuck it, and never chuck it.
Hunderbirds are Gone on 1st June 2016 11:25 pm
From memory (or whit’s left of it) he was a good teacher. Probably the youngest one in OLHS at that time. Funny guy in class, and very much in tune with the age group he was teaching – anyway, that’s whit ah remember. Got me through ma O level history!!
Love yer blog name BTW!!
HH
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