So how about this scenario, Celtic Youths are trailing in their league with 10 games to go when they register three new players, but someone’s ‘at it’. The players are all over-age but the date of birth on their registration forms have been incorrectly completed, so the players are registered and become eligible to play the remaining games. Celtic Youths win their remaining games and win the league.
At the end of the season the deception is uncovered. The people responsible for filling the forms out incorrectly are criticised but one is president of the Scottish Football Association, who give evidence to an inquiry that as the Association registered the players, the results must stand.
Time to “draw a line under it” is the line from the SFA chief executive, hoping with all his might that no one mentions the Scottish Youth Cup games the players also played in, which would invoke a parallel punishment to the one recently imposed on Spartans Youths for exactly the same offence in the same competition. The chief exec also dismisses attempts to call those criticised by the inquiry to account as scapegoating.
Ridiculous? Of course, but this is what we’ve just experienced, with another club, of course.
Challenging the verdict, if possible, is a worthwhile endeavour but it will only treat one symptom of the many issues facing Scottish Premier League clubs, who could be forgiven for losing the will to compete within the rules. Fans of several SPL clubs now believe their best interests are served by playing in an environment beyond Scotland – for a whole range of reasons.
We have to work with fans of other clubs to make the case for the SPL, as a unit, to leave Scottish football (I see cross-club initiatives are already underway).
On a completely unrelated question, if you had £21m in the bank late last year, and you were burning cash at £1m per month, which year would you run out of money?
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The real battle is on the horizon. The Sevco accounts show they cannot last another season outwith the SPL.
It is the battle of the Fasttrack we must be prepared to fight.
ASonOfDan
13:08 on
4 March, 2013
Paul67
That really depends if you are going to keep deferring your payments to the taxman or eventually pay up.
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I think that deferred liability, from reading the accounts, is based on the revaluation of capital assets from Haudit and Daudit’s fantasy sale figures to Chuckles ‘no asset improvement’ highly inflated figure and only crystalises when the assets are sold (or next year, whichever comes sooner, probably).
Essentially they’re making a provision for a Capital Gains tax.
Can i get LNS to investigate Philvis’ podium today?
secondisnowherecsc :)
TBB
Thanks for bringing to our attention the post from Miki67.
02.06. A truly humbling post for anyone wishing to read on the last article.
Miki67. God bless you.
South Of Tunis
I got it off NewsNow, I did not note the site.
Sorry.
Paul your at it ! You must’ve known my math skills were poor ! I had my boots n sox off desperately trying to calculate Downfall 2 the burstin of the chuckles flush date ! Damn it does that mean a return of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse banner again and another jelly and ice cream standing order again lol ! Dontcha just love those servconians !!!!!
dirtymac 13:18
So it is a bill that will have to be paid in the future?
voguepunter
12:56 on 4 March, 2013
Does it come with a Tri-Colour on the roof?
Green told Sky Sports.
“It has been a very, very challenging six months looking to where Rangers were in administration to the successful float [on the stock exchange] in December which raised £35m.”
£35m? Chuck just cant help himself. lol!
“Ally will get cash to spend, but because of the transfer embargo that won’t happen until January next year,”
No signing on fees or wages getting paid to these new players arriving in September then?
ASonOfDan
13:22 on
4 March, 2013
dirtymac 13:18
So it is a bill that will have to be paid in the future?
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Only if they sell the assets, presumably Orthanc and Mordor.
Paul67
Every time I read what happened put another way I get even more angry! If it was any other club(company?!) in Scotland, I suspect different outcomes & punishments. In other words any other club would not even be in div3.
Can you spare 21 million quid for a cuppa tea guvnor?!
Much obliged!
ASonOfDan .
Thanks ! .
Conte has been peddling ” a strongest possible team ” line ——- we’ll have to wait to see what he means by ” possible “.
He spoke highly of Samaras this morning . He refused to comment on Italian speculation that he will leave Juve for Real Madrid / Chelsea.
Neil Lennon listens to The Fu99ie Dew
Hello Sean…gotta new mota?
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2287601/The-car-called-Provo-New-Kia-model-set-Mini-controversial-name.html
You have to wonder who paid for these years of mis-information and flooding of all possible media outlets with pro orc propaganda or did everyone involved just do out out of love furra berrs??
ASonOfDan
13:28 on
4 March, 2013
“Ally will get cash to spend, but because of the transfer embargo that won’t happen until January next year,”
No signing on fees or wages getting paid to these new players arriving in September then?
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That’s a good point. Technically, Sevco can actually buy players now, or certainly buy out players contracts to enable them to be free in the summer ready for registration in September, which was their actual punishment: players cannot be registered by them until September 1st 2013.
hashtagThisIsFun
Guy on Radio5L suggesting Sevco are in a better position than Liverpool because the latter lost £40 million last year as opposed to £7 million.
At least Liverpool have a long and proud history.
Ahem!
A page 2 podium!
HH!!
“It leaves us in a very, very strong position because those figures cover the period where we weren’t even a member of the Football Association in Scotland, and we had huge wage bills when we first went in which have been trimmed down,”
Second highest wage bill in Scotland just now, that is some trimming down… lol!
Embdae think Ogilvie will be asked if Bryson has been promoted……….em sorry disceplined….? Mmmmmmm
Dundee Utd
Hibs v Falkirk Arabs v us
D.Utd vs Celtic
Semi draw 13/14 April
We have Utd in the cup
An all green final then?
Those accounts can only lead to two possible scenarios. If they are losing a million a month, you have to…
A. Cut overheads, make staff cuts, drop wages.
B. Increase prices.
Actually there is 3, they will do both.
Directors will still get a raise though.
pleased with that
off to work
We got UTD
1 million a month loss ?
Why dont Zombies just sell Templeton and is it Barry McKay (more
like Barry Whyte.)
That will be say March covered…
voguepunter
13:31 on
4 March, 2013
“Splash of White & then Green and we’re rolling” – Sounds like a DR headline…
Looks like a cool car ;)
Ogilvie looked like a guy who had just returned home to discover it had been ransacked and someone had s**t in his bed.
HH!!
Scottish cup semis;
Celtic v Dundee united
Hibs v Falkirk
obonfanti1888
You lose £40 knowing you will make £200 at the end of the week.
I lose £7 and dont know if I will get a wage at the end of the week.
Who is worse off? :0)
Gordon_J, ah, that explains it.
dirtymac, still sounds too soon.
angelgabriel, just hypothetical.
ASonOfDan, OK then.
SwanseaBhoy, ah, that’s an awkward subject…..
jungle jam67, no info.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP, I don’t read them.
Bawsman, not sure.
ToffeeTim, they are a treat.
pabloh, true.
Dundee Utd and Celtic have met twice previously in Scottish Cup semi-finals. In season 1980-81 United eventually reached the final after winning a replay 3-2 – the first match ended goalless. In 2001 Celtic won 3-1.
We are two wins away from a double, let’s get it on Celtic…
Bring on the Juve..