A Uefa compliance officer will visit the Scottish FA early next week after European football’s governing body were asked to look into what was happening inside Scottish football by people within the German game. Scottish football has been rocked by allegations of improper registration of players for over a month now. The SFA recently concluded an inquiry into Rangers without reference to the allegations while the Scottish Premier League have announced an inquiry, but indicate it will not report anytime soon.
Although the allegations have consequences beyond the SPL, including international and European football, the SFA have failed to actively address concerns which could see 12 years of football results rewritten, prompting interest from Uefa.
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I haven’t read back yet, but did anyone warn the SFA about the Ides of March?
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
I was hoping to hear from him too.
I would be interested in subscribing to his tipster after seeing his tips yesterday.
Results
JEWSON NOVICES’ CHASE
Pretty much guessing but two of these are in my list of 20 to follow – CHAMPION COURT 2ND 8-1
and SIR DES CHAMPS WON 3-1 . I will put my faith in them, dutch, 176.92 PROFIT TO 100
go 20/80 SIR DES CHAMPS 3-1, 1.80 124 PROFIT TO 100
and reverse an exacta. 31.10
PERTEMPS FINAL
CAPE TRIBULATION WON 14-1 and PRINCE ERIK are the only pair that I will work with. My staking wont be huge because I don’t want today’s profits to be blown to smithereens.
Dutch, 851.22 PROFIT TO 100
2 x 20/80’s and a reverse exacta. 500 PROFIT TO 100 WINNER + 1 LOST +EXACTA LOST
RYANAIR CHASE
I will simply play a 20/80 NOBLE PRINCE. PU
LADBROKES WORLD HURDLE
If you must have a bet just enjoy a small exacta BIG BUCKS to beat VOLER LA VEDETTE. The latter is consistent, stays the trip, guaranteed and is a huge price. Exacta paid £23.90
Last 2 races lost
Oh that W C?? He’s a frail wee soul !!
Stuttgart feeling duped???
Even now,with all these investigations going on at both,ibrox,and within the SFA,I still find it difficult to believe that,after a lifetime of cheating from our enemies,we may be on the brink of seeing the truth emerge.My entire existence,it has been plain,not only to me,but,to most of the Celtic fans I know,that we have been on the wrong end of a campaign to keep us down,could it be that,at long last,our,”paranoia’,will be correctly diagnosed?,still a little apprehensive to get my hopes all the way up,but,can’t help feeling,tiocfaidh ar lah.
It’s been a busy but shity day.
Reading this article has just cheered me up.
Wee tune for one of my best buddies.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5iOiLX5ppA&feature=youtube_gdata_player
MWD
The following clubs have played RFC 1995-96 until 2011-12.
All must be interested in whether registration offences have taken place.
AJ Auxerre Ajax Alania Vladikavkaz Amica Wronki Anorthosis Famagusta Anzhi Makhachkala Artmedia Bratislava AS Monaco AZ Alkmaar Barcelona Bayer Leverkusen Bayern Munich Beitar Jerusalem Borussia Dortmund Bursaspor C.S. Marítimo CA Osasuna CSKA Moscow Dinamo Moscow F.C. Copenhagen F.C. Porto FBK Kaunas FC Haka Fenerbahçe Feyenoord Fiorentina FK Viktoria Žižkov FK Zeta Galatasaray GÍ Gøta Grasshopper-Club Zürich Grazer AK Hapoel Tel Aviv Herfølge BK IFK Gothenburg Inter Milan Juventus Kaiserslautern Livorno Lyon Maccabi Haifa Malmö Manchester United Molde FK NK Maribor Panathinaikos PAOK Paris Saint-Germain Parma Partizan Belgrade PSV Eindhoven RC Strasbourg Red Star Belgrade Sevilla Shelbourne Sporting Lisbon Steaua Bucharest Sturm Graz Unirea Urziceni Valencia Valencia CF VfB Stuttgart Villarreal CF Werder Bremen Zalgiris Kaunas Zenit St Petersburg.
So will FC Sion of Switzerland.
So will Celtic FC, Aberdeen FC and every other FC in Scotland’s premier league since the 1990s.
Boo to the cheats.
O.G.Rafferty on 15 March, 2012 at 23:54 said
I keep saying it: “infinite patience produces immediate results.
There have been a few who from April 2010 said this will not happen or that will not happen.
Well it is, it always was and it always will.
Some advice for the Channel 4 journalist coming to Scotland.
http://i.imgur.com/tc0Go.jpg
HH
GG
Your a sh*t stirrer!!
Dear Mister Big German Uefa Compliance Man,
Please sort out Rangers
Please sort out the SFA
Please sort out the Referees ( and there’s a guy called Craven who deserves to
have his good reputation restored after it got trashed by Mister FTP Dallas)
If you’ve got any time remaining just nip over to the BBC and ask them why they
employ only pro-hun henchmen in their Sports Dept.
It’s going to be a busy day for you !
pigalle
I see our ol’ mucker has been keeping in touch with Lenny and the bhoys:
Talk is cheap: Larsson hits back at accusations from Hateley and Burley of Celtic’s title being ‘tainted’
Henrik Larsson has rubbished talk of a Celtic title triumph being tainted by the turmoil at Rangers.
The Parkhead legend spoke out after Mark Hateley and former team-mate Craig Burley claimed the financial meltdown at Ibrox will tarnish the achievement of the champions elect.
A close friend of the Celtic management team of Neil Lennon, Johan Mjallby and Alan Thompson, Larsson scored 240 goals in seven years in Glasgow, winning four SPL titles before quitting in 2004.
On the defence: Henrik Larsson (centre) with Alan Thompson (right) and Chris Sutton
And he insists any team that wins the title has earned the right to be recognised as the best in the country.
‘I think it’s only people on the other side who will say things like that about winning the title,’ he told Sportsmail.
‘It’s not Lenny’s fault what has happened at Rangers. He can’t do anything about it.
‘There is nothing to worry about because, in the end, the trophy will say it’s another league title for Celtic — nothing else.
‘That’s all that matters. You can only do your own job, you can’t do anything more.
‘Anyone who says anything else is not worth worrying about and I don’t think Lenny, Johan or Thommo will be bothered about what anyone else says. If you win a title, you are the best team in the country.’
Old pals: Neil Lennon and Larsson celebrate winning the 2004 SPL title
Now preparing for a new season as manager of Swedish Second Division side BOIS Landskrona, Larsson speaks regularly to Lennon and Mjallby by phone and pays close attention to the fortunes of a club where he remains the second highest all-time goalscorer.
Scorer of a hat-trick against Kilmarnock in the 2001 League Cup Final which set up a Martin O’Neill Treble, Larsson admits he would love to see his old colleagues win their first trophy of the season on Sunday en route to a potential clean sweep.
‘To win the Treble would be fantastic,’ he said. ‘Lenny is still a new manager and I would be delighted for all of them, because they are my old friends. They’ve done it as players and if they can win them all as coaches, as well, then that’s good.
‘All three of them know what it takes to play for Celtic and they will remind the players how important every final is and what’s needed.
‘It’s difficult to win everything — it takes a team that understands the game and wants to win things.
‘That’s what’s important first and foremost. Everybody has to work hard to do their part. I see that in the Celtic team now.’
Treble yell: Georgios Samaras helps Celtic breeze into the last four of the Scottish Cup, scoring in the 4-0 rout of Dundee United
Larsson’s hat-trick in a national final came despite a red card for strike partner Chris Sutton after an hour.
‘I don’t remember much of the day itself because it was so long ago,’ he added.
‘That was the game where I ran a long way and dragged the ball past Gordon Marshall, I think. That’s my main memory.’
Winning the League Cup as the first part of a Treble would mark a remarkable turnaround from the dark days of November when Rangers were runaway league leaders and Lennon was fighting for his job.
In touch with Mjallby throughout, however, Larsson insists he never detected any hint of panic or fear from his old mates.
‘I don’t think it was ever the case that Lenny was fighting for his job,’ he insisted. ‘He has the drive to win and he has never been a character who has been stressed by anything.
‘Part of being a manager is recognising the situation around you at all times, and Lenny is clever enough to do that.
‘Remember, he has Johan next to him as well — and he’s never been known to stress out about anything. There is a lot of experience there and that’s why I don’t think they were ever too worried.’
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2115661/Henrik-Larsson-hits-Mark-Hateley-Craig-Burley-Celtics-title-tainted.html
Hail Hail
uldheid..,
cant agree, its impatience in the blogsphere that has brought all this on, it was impatience with the refs that brought on the threat of bhoycott. This lack of patience is directly responsible for everything we are witnessing.
This is the first time in history the Celtic support could do anything about the status quo and it was not patience that brought on th opportunity it was the interweb and angry impatient supporters
As ranjurz minded peepul slip into civil war, it’s worth noting that Minty’s interview either displaced or minimised NFL’s appearance at court. what did we learn from the Wrigleyesque one? he was ‘duped’ by Whyte. A strange choice of word, ‘duped’ doesn’t mean conned, hoaxed, lied to, or, defrauded by. Duped is most akin to betrayal. Minty is trying to align himself with the majority of ranjurz fans, ‘…I’m just like you, a sucker, I thought he was like us, a fan, I believed him because it would have been disloyal to question him’
The fact that the Board warned, in the strongest possible terms, that Whyte may not have the wherewithal to buy a curly-wurly, was ignored by both Minty and the bank. they needed to move ranjurz on.
Minty and Whyte share a common back-story, young entrepreneurs who loved making money and who wanted to ‘contribute’
Published on Sunday 29 April 2001 01:00
He did when he backed the ill-fated Sunday Scot newspaper. “When it went bust I could have left everyone high and dry. I paid everybody. A lot of people go bust one week and start up again the next. That’s morally wrong. Pay the price.”
Business isn’t just about money. It’s about reputation. Someone told him recently he needed to get a think-tank into the business to get costs down. “I don’t think like that. If my profit goes up or down 10% and I treat people fairly that’s more important to me.” That loyalty extends from his workforce to his country. “I think if you are a wealthy Scot you should live in Scotland and pay tax.”
That’s important to him? “Bloody right,” he retorts. He is not then, one of those wealthy businessmen who whinges about paying their dues. “I pay a lot of tax. I’m happy to pay. I don’t mind sharing that way.”
(If anyone wants the full article,http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/top-football-stories/murray-in-bid-to-gag-the-bigots-1-1287979)
The only people who were duped were the camp followers in the media.
We thought Regan was the man.
How pathetic does that seem now?
johnnyquest on 16 March, 2012 at 00:14 said:
If it turns out that there were no letters that could constitute a contract then HMRC do not have a case. The fact they are pursuing one suggests that there are.
These had to be submitted to the SFA/SPL when players were registered if not the game is a bogey.
Of course we have thought that as recently as last season when we thought Bougherra and Diouf would get the book thrown at them but the good OLD SFA did what they always do, interpret the rules in such a way that little damage is done to Rangers. There might have been a chance that even the new SFA would have covered up the EBT fallout, such is its potential scope, but that potential is becoming clear beyond our borders, so a cover up is not going be possible.
Hang on to yer hat.
This from The Daily Mail made me laugh:
“There was a further bizarre twist to the saga yesterday when married dating site Ashley Madison launched a publicity stunt claiming they were ready to invest millions into helping Rangers by renaming the stadium.”
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2115664/SFA-throw-book-Rangers-Whyte-set-hearing-ban-Scottish-football.html
Everyone is now taking the piss out the hun!!
Hail Hail
Ooops should be, Audheid, this keyboard is knackered
Finally caught up, phew!
time for kip
Ceaser67 on 16 March, 2012 at 00:08 said:
lovely malt this!!!
…
If it’s a 12 year old The Balvenie, Double Wood or Bunnahabhain then I agree!
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 16 March, 2012 at 00:32 said:
Aye we were, but that was anger not impatience. Patience is giving anything time to happen in. It is not waiting for something to happen.
I don’t know about you but I had had enough being treated like a paranoid mug and wanted change, but I did not expect it to happen overnight and I certainly did not expect uncle karma to get involved. :)
Auldheid,
lucky for us he woke up when he did eh :oD)))
Dublinbhoy on 16 March, 2012 at 00:38 said:
On a serious note I know the charge against CW and Rangers is bringing the game into disrepute by breaking articles of association.
but has anyone seen HOW they broke the rules, what they are specifically charged with?
My own pet project was the award of the UEFA licence in the face of the unpaid wee tax bill. I would really, really like to know just how that was approved and once approved not reconsidered. Even if it was all done according to the rules, setting out exactly how would do something to suggest its not ALL skullduggery.
Lurker for a long time and posted a few times lately….astounded by the revelations and the knowledge you guys have given the world, well everyone in the green half, just keeps getting better every day…one sour note maybe, as EUFA day draws closer…would the co-efficient be SERIOUSLY effected should der hun get the hook for the last few years…hmmm clerical errors? Could it effect next years entry???
Hail Hail
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 16 March, 2012 at 01:00 said:
I think he was in a korma.
ouch.
Pigalle says:
Please sort out the Referees ( and there’s a guy called Craven who deserves to
have his good reputation restored after it got trashed by Mister FTP Dallas)
Couldn`t agree more.
The fall guy.
Collateral damage.
But to be honest I did expect things to happen overnight and IMO they did, pretty muh as soon as the threat was issued the first thing I noticed was the board trying to puta ld on it, but they knew they couldnt keep it on for very long, so they had to take acion.
As far as I was and am still to be convinced other wise had we not taen action then we would still be waiting for the board to do something now.
steviebhoy66,
expect the worst, scotland will be excluded from interational competition due to the corruption of the sfa. Heavy handed I know, but the national association has brought shame to the game world wide and will be punished to the full extent available.
Too many offcials have been covering up for too long regardless of who become the vicTIMs.
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 16 March, 2012 at 01:06 said:
Yes and there’s a story still being peddled by a certain Guardian journalist who reported on this at the time that Craven was the recipient of threats from Celtic fans,
this being a line fed to him likely by an SFA spokesbastard.
And one he refuses to retract. Even today I was on the site and one poster – think his name was EdgarBlam or something – was putting this across strongly but getting fobbed off.
They are a slippery bunch.
pigalle
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 16 March, 2012 at 01:02 said:
Your guess is as good as anyones…it could be for any number of reasons.
My suspicions are that they got wind of the arrival of the UEFA Compliance Officer and had to do something very quickly to hide their, upto now, inaction.
Hail Hail
CaltonTongues on 15 March, 2012 at 23:00 said:
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 15 March, 2012 at 22:54 said:,
Re: ‘Speculate to Liquidate’ and CL.
What if one team has a better seeding and is guaranteed entry to the group stage and the other…
See where I’m going with this?
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My view is that the pursuit of CL money has been a major factor in the corruption of our game. Rangers could see Celtic disappearing over the financial horizon in 2007 but rather than accept their lot and living without CL money they went into debt to get at it. (The go on about bringing their debt down to £18M by 2010 but ignore it was £6M in 2006.)
So their debt rises and as was shown this year by their failure to qualify for CL or EL, without that income they were in deep doo doo. So they HAD to win and if we were making a go at competing, honest mistakes multiplied as the rot set in to make sure they got a bite at the CL.
The thing about the CL is the cost of qualifying is so high, it only takes one failure over three seasons to lose rather than make money. So to discourage Scottish clubs overstretching, reduce the prize by sharing some of it amongst the other clubs who do not qualify. That still leaves enough CL money to aid qualification but also stops the gap between the regular qualifier becoming so large the domestic competition is no longer competitive.
The decision Celtic need to make is that without Rangers as our domestic benchmark, do we settle for just getting to the UEFA start line up or do we aim to qualify for at least the group stages of the EL?
Although we got in by the back door, we were unlucky not to go further and I think our benchmark should be to be good enough to top EL groups and if that impoves the chances of getting into a CL group then pure dead brill.
pigalle,
I actually followed that threat claim to its first publication, being the sporting times, I posted the source on here and a couple of days later I was told there was some interesting information came out of that wee line of enquiry and I would be filled in, however it appears I blew that by being a bad bhoy :o)
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 16 March, 2012 at 01:07 said:
The next time you are down at the Electric Brae look me up on the caravan site you see from the road and I’ll tell you over a beer exactly what happened. And its not what you think. :)
Auldheid,
“Although we got in by the back door” I expectbetter from you, we did not get anywhere through any back door, we were cheated and the cheats got caught, we took our rightful place in the competition. Using meeja sound bites does not become you.
canamalar, I was surprised to see it still being fought over today, but credit
where credit’s due there were posters on there still trying to set the
record straight.
interesting that you tracked it back to the sporting times…would you have
any knowledge of their source – I always thought the lie came from
the SFA, as you do……
pigalle
Auldheid,
I actually think my accusation of defamation of the brand could have been the one, but I’d be surprised if it had not been considered by sharper minds than my sh*t stirring :o)
Would love to know if and how I agitated in the right direction, but its unlikely I’ll be anywhere near the Electric Brae anytime soon, so if you ever get time, stick yahoo.com or hotmail.com at the end of my handle and drop me a line please.
THE EXILED TIM on 15 March, 2012 at 23:21 said:
I was only looking at the arithmetic not the personalities. The arithmetic provides an argument to challenge gate sharing as the single answer.
pigalle,
at the time I suspected it was a pals act.
Once the subject went into print it was fair game for everyone else to follow it and they did, the original article was only a couple of lines, but obviously embellished by every subsequent publisher, a chinese whisper campaign.