Campbell Ogilvie’s appointment as president of the SFA was always controversial. As general secretary and director of Rangers, Ogilvie was the club’s chief administrator during the final 11-year period they refused to employ Catholic footballers. In many other walks of life, this background would make him an embarrassing relic of a former era, but in Scottish football it was enough to see him promoted to the ultimate honour position.
He remained in position at Rangers long after the new regime of Sir David Murray arrived and set aside the decades-old sectarian employment policy but left the club in 2005, joining Hearts as operations director two months later. All of this puts the SFA president in central position regarding the on-going tax tribunal, which is charged with deciding if Rangers illegally evaded tax from a period starting in 2000 and going on well beyond Ogilvie’s departure.
If the First Tier Tribunal finds against Rangers the SFA must ask for Ogilvie’s immediate resignation. The association cannot have a president embroiled in a tax evasion scam which, even before a verdict has been decided, has already caused untold harm to his former club and the reputation Scottish football. The scale of the damage to public finances has yet to be definitively established but it will not make good reading.
The SFA has just embarked on its first proper investigation into whether directors of a football club, in this instance Rangers, are fit and proper persons to hold such a position. Office holders at the association cannot exercise power over the game if they are not subject to the same standards they demand from clubs. Pending this investigation, and the outcome of the tax tribunal, Ogilvie should temporarily step aside. Scotland is not yet a banana republic, public bodies must have robust ethics and must not allow the shadow of contagion to be cast over the body charged with ensuring legal and moral standards are adhered to.
The SFA has some enormously important months ahead. Its president is currently in a position to influence which course it takes and, if the tribunal verdict falls against Rangers, could be implicated in the scandal which precipitated the crisis. While I am sure Campbell Ogilvie will be shown to have acted with impeccable ethical standards, the SFA must quickly establish a structure clear of contagion.
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Scottish Sports Journalist calls Chairman of Rangers ‘ a proven liar’ live on radio – what a turnaround!
The really big question is : whats in that suitcase of whyteys?
A flagellators whip?
A blueprint of hidden tunnels at ibrox?
Nipple clamps?
A celtic scarf?
A recipe for homemade ice cream?
A large bivalved vibrating eye cup?
Brochure for the siberian riviera?
A copy of the codex gigas?
A laughing sleeve…just getting daft now…
I just wonder if he is a fan of another club who got done in by some Huns in his younger days and has festered and plotted a way to get them back sometime!!
Ulysses McGhee 17.5
Drat,,my wife got one of those,I could have bought them.Slan
Oh….and handsomest…!!!
Did I get it right,Bwana,did I get it right ?
(thumbsup?).
Still Laughin’.
Surely Craig Whyte is a certainty to win the Best Comedy Performance at tonight’s Brit Awards?
He didn’t reveal the details of the Ticketus deal becausse of confidentiality and wishes he had been more transparent? Most people would just call it lying.
He offered HMRC a deal to pay up the £9M debt over the next 18 months? That’s money you’ve lready collected.
And the big tax case. £2.5M a year. For the next how many years? That might pay the interest but nothing else.
Yes, Craig Whyte is a real joker.
News just in from Ladbrokes…Rangers are even money to win the league next season….Montrose are second favourites at 2/1.
SNYDE is quality tonight, gordon dalziel, priceless!!!!!!!!!
Hun: a master race with the collective psyche of a slave
mikeyp says:
21 February, 2012 at 18:10
I just wonder if he is a fan of another club who got done in by some Huns in his younger days and has festered and plotted a way to get them back sometime!!
I wondered if he was really an Airdrie fan out for revenge
Craig Whyte total diamond. Anybody think he borrowed the £1 to buy the shares lol
A want a title party at the debt dome
Listening to snyde if they get relegated they go down can’t restructure the league 2 save them but well alter rules and hide behind tv deals to keep them here this year f**k u snyde your a joke
HH
The final revelation is a state wherein we realise a paradox containing the opposites in one movement
The final revelation
Is coming
More Than Just a Game
DURATION: 1 HOUR, 27 MINUTES
South African docudrama chronicling the true life story of the Makana Football Association. Imprisoned on the notorious Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was also held, a group of political activists rise above incarceration by creating their own fully functioning football league.
Inspiration for newco?
Kojo says:
21 February, 2012 at 17:41
As always controversial…….leave Millport alone…..Love Millport…….every year of my childhood spent at least a week in Kames Bay in a single end.
wonky
please expand
u
Craig Whyte doesn’t do walking away-Thank God for that!
Here’s a puzzle: is the reason why nobody has received his Harry Potters from the 1st team pool:
(a) they can’t because they (Swifty & Shifty) don’t employ them
(b) Swifty & Shifty don’t employ the players at Minty Park so can’t call on academy players
(c) Swifty & Shifty have been handed their erse by the Googly Billionaire?
Craig Whyte dosn’t do walking away, he prefers running very fast away.
they are nearly dead and i am indeed loving it
Craigy bhoy doesn’t do walking away
no, more like get the reeboks on and run like eff
tis a pity ole ronnie biggs is not still sunning himself on a beach in Brazil
our man Craig could teach him a few things
MayoD says:
21 February, 2012 at 18:21
Craig Whyte dosn’t do walking away, he prefers running very fast away.
He calls it taking a step backwards
Administrators statement summarised: get me out of here please. No I can’t comment, we don’t know. Really, we just don’t know.
Craig whyte has a neck made of solid brass
can’t believe that statement
Jabba says there is more to come and it’s ‘scandalous!’ Poor Jim. Need to dust down the old ska classic-The Liquidator.
Gordon Dee ‘…yeah ah can’t argue wi’ that!’ face it Gordon you couldn’t argue with a scabby dug!
Guidi ‘…we’ve all been duped’ Have we?
The Big Hoose guy would be better running them, at least he wants them to stay open.
EXCLUSIVE in tommorrows daily record:
Craig “whytey” White is the bastard love child
Of Marty Feldman…
& Janice Street Porter…
You heard it hear first
Wink wink
Nudge nudge
Whitz yer ludge…
Mark guidi
If you are reading , can you let know Gordon Dalziel know that delighted ends with an ‘e’ and then a ‘d’ . Not ‘it’……. ………
Your welcome
hahahaha Rangers the gift that keeps on giving. Jinky’s position as greatest ever celt could be under pressure from the MBP (Motherwell Born Poundaire).
Wonder who he borrowed the pound off.
And wonder how Keech Union Jackson feels about his greatest ever scoop.
Be still my aching sides!
Sir Kojo.
I’ll have you know that I am the anointed Skryer of The Tea-Leaves for these Hallowed Pages….
Never mind giving us this Jibber-Jabber about this Alys de Fame Dame…
Snake-Oil Sales-Wummin’ she is….
She wiz the crone who shamelessly impersonated the Wondrous Super Sarah Palin,for the entertainment of the Unwashed Swivel-Eyed Lefties across the Pond…
Right ?
Right !
Tail’s A-Waggin’…
Costa Rica?
Have our Costa Rican brothers been informed about this guy?
“So Billy, what do you know about this Craig Whyte that Murray has sold Rangers to?”
“Nothing Billy. But he can’t be any worse, can he?”
And the rest, as they say, was history. Or is that hysterical?
O.K. guys Whyte has played a blinder.
The question is, how do we honour him? What would be a suitable accolade?
Here’s an idea.
How about we ask Ben & Jerry’s to name an ice cream after him?
My suggestion is Craig Whyte’s Bitter Orange ice cream, basically a plain vanilla ice cream flavoured with Seville oranges.
Any other suggestions?
https://secure.benjerry.com/contact-us/suggest-a-flavor.cfm
Gents,
Is Craig Whyte “The New Statesman”?
Haven’t got time just now, but I’m sure some of the clever guys could do something with this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_XgFHRs96E
shortbread: Brian Kennedy, the multi-millionaire (?) really?
do these people never learn?
Hun conspiracy theorists now saying the Dunfermline game tomorrow night is so we can win the leasgue at the DebtDome. Despite the game being arranged long before the Huns went into administration. Bam.
Gordon Dalziel?
Cos big fat DJ took Real Radio’s dough ClydeFM put an absolute tadger in the panel to discuss various issues on Planet Fitba. How Jim Delahunt can sit across from that buffoon is unbelievable!
He can’t even string a proper sentence in English.
CW should be knighted…
A Knight of St Columba
ernie
mutton dressed as succulent lamb…
u