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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Tim Malone Will Tell says:
21 February, 2012 at 18:47
Do you think at the end of it all that Craig just stands up and says “thank you all – you’ve been a wonderful audience” before disappearing in a puff of smoke?
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You know what character he is reminding me of now,…have you ever seen catch me if you can with di caprio? lol
Does anybody know the furthest point in the world from Ibrox?
Muuray & Whyte – Dastardly & Muttley?
Voguepunter
How magnanimous of you to credit another excellent piece of writing to Joe of the CSA. Another wonderfully written article from your good self.
A Booker or Whitbread prize is surely on the horizon! :-)))
Dazzle reckons Celtic supporters should not be on Follow Follow
What a fool that man is, the agent Celts were just gathering intelligence behind enemy lines
Perfectly legitimate operation by our chhaps and a job well done if I may say so….
Has dayell suffered some sort of violent thud to his cranium?
Is this the consequence of mix & matching your medication like a pillpoppers pic n’ mix?
The unforseen effect of electric shock treatment?
The mandatory frontal labotomy administered on arrival at the marble staircase of doom?
Thindimebhoy:
Dazzle?
Is that what “they” call this haddy?
Is it an ironic play on words?
Someone mentioned earlier that `The Brits’ were on tonight.
Not normally an interior design or fashion commentor,
but it looks like a Tim got the interior design gig as there was a
preview on breakfast TV.
The colour scheme?
GREEN, WHITE AND GOLD!
HH
AoW
“Let’s just say he’s a billonaire” aye Zimbabwean dollers.
So we craigy boy is caught telling mair porkies.
He got mair front than Brighton. I said to my mate the
other day that I think whytes aff his heid.
No I don’t mean cause he bought the huns, I think he
is a walter mitty type bonkers case.
There are huns out there that want to harm our Lenny
because of who he is and how he could harm their team
on the park.
Just think what could happen to oor wee googly eyed
hero when the inevitable happens to that mob.
To suggest that he might get wan behind the ear in a
monte carlo lavvy might not be too wide of the mark.
Watch your back craigy boy we’re still rootin fur ye.
Guidi in denial.
Rashers Tierney says:
21 February, 2012 at 18:33
I find the development of the internet fascinating in terms of current and future social impact and raising the level of human consciousness.
It enables fences to be crossed ;)
Two men live side by side in semis and share a back garden. A fence divides the gardens. It is dark green on one side and light green on the other. Mr Dark Green thinks the fence is all dark green. Mr Light Green thinks it is all light green. It is only when they talk and Mr Dark Green invites Mr Light Green in to his garden that they discover the truth that the fence is dark green on one side and light green on the other. As a result of sharing they are more enlightened than when they ignored each other.
The furthest point away from Ibrox is in the sea off the coast of New Zealand, roughly.
Guidi in denial.
Apparently, Jabba and ‘Union’ Jackson were on the case from the start (after they’d read Phil & RTC).
Paul67,
Some hard hitting and brilliant articles over the last couple of days. Fantastic form, has Neil Lennon been man-managing you up another level as well as his players. :)
I must admit when Charlie Mulgrew was brought back to the club I really couldn’t understand the move. Charlie after a while made the LCH position his own and I was glad because he looked weak (to me anyway) at Left Midfield and looked even weaker at Left Back.
Charlies performances lately have been absolutely brilliant and thats not when you factor in his quality deliveries for corners, or direct free kicks at goal. Lately he has been playing at LB where I felt he was really weak last season and is now playing the position like a seasoned professional in that position.
Take a Bow Charlie and Congratulations on a thoroughly deserved call up to International level and may your form continue to progress even further.
Just read the latest issue and hats off to Michael Gunn and Tony McCann for excellent articles!
Michael – you remind me of the old Celtictactics website with those words. How is Neil going to line up next year? The 4-2-3-1 with Big Vic at Cb moving into midfield depending? Really good reading and tactically astute!
Tony – that is the model we should be looking at and the scouting really has unearthed some gems with a real high saleable value after competing in the Champions League. I would suggest Rosenberg / Copenhagen as the best model for us. Regular CL competitors and regular league winners.
Good read guys!
So CW wanted HMRC to accept him paying their back taxes at £2.5m per year? thats roughly the next 20 years? Spat my cuppa tea out at that one!
RATM
do you know if any fishermen in them parts are looking for a wee bit of investment?
caller on Snyde re the three amigos, Gordon Dayell ‘…it’s myth!’
Dazzler said that he had been on to that ‘a number of days ago!’
WHY???
no way should a newco be allowed to simply take a place at the top table in scottish football.
the old media are all about the ‘we all need them’, failing to see the big picture. Football is about competition and reward and failure based on merit, the case for newco having direct entry to the SPL has no ligit merit whatsoever.
funny how things change, last years the old media told us scottish football was bankrupt and television money sh*te, yet this year we need all the television money and it will go if rangers are not here.
to my mind scottish football’s problems is in part due to television dictating how many celtic vs rangers games, which in turn f*cked up comepetion with other team having to play celtic and rangers to many times to develop any level of consistancy i.e. 8 games per season or 24 points, how many points are celtic and rangers usually ahead??? scottish football needs to change big time, our small league suits t.v and nothing else.
we need a bigger league with more play offs at the top and bottom which in turn leads to more competition and allows the bigger clubs in scotland to push for european places and league titles.
with some relative success i reckon hearts, hibs, aberdeen and even dundee united could build a stronger fan base and make the league more competitive.
we could sell t.v. rights to stv/ channel 4/5 etc… to promote better viewing figues and to retain good, if not better sponsor money, to help address the shortfall in t.v. money which should be shared equally across the SPL leading to similiar income for all clubs. Games should only be played on a saturday afternoon or on one designated day/evening for television purposes to help people to attend/ plan their weekends/ football etc…
no matter if rangers are here or not the truth is we either change for the better of all or die together
hamiltontim says:
21 February, 2012 at 19:04
Thank you ,my friend..
But I do not do magnanimity,if its mine I am keeping it.
Joe’s a good guy ,let him have day in the sun,I have plenty
more masterpieces up my trouser leg.
hail hail
Gordon D. Ell
Whittaker etc. contacts are all perfectly legal. Craig Whyte telt me.
Spiritually, the furthest point from Ibrox is Celtic Park on a game day at 3pm…
u
I have just seen Leggat down an alleyway eating his supper out of a dumpster…he is washing it down with a stolen bottle of rug cleaner between screams of “speirsy l forgive you…we can have a shotgun wedding in Amsterdam!”
good evening cqn
I dont no if I can take much more of this,and has been already said there is more to come,
constant smile on the face, sides hurting with Laughter.
what goes around comes around,every dog has his day,a couple of sayings that have come to mind,all this and Neil is building a young team,for the future,and hopefully to do well in the champions league.
Agree with others,I also think the host on R C is enjoying all this.
Googhyboy down Vale town centre today diar
Dazzle: i woke up and it was a different day
Martin (ahm on KDS) just on Clyde certainly gives credence to the term Internet bampot
Who are these sad people that want to spend their free Saturday afternoons listening to a Hun match on the radio to hear what songs they are singing
Obviously nae wife nae weans nae family nae burd and nae pals
Get a life and get opt and aboot a bit more
Anyway,not that it matters on here,tomorrow night rogne to keep his place at expense of big dan
RATM – A BAMPOT! says:
21 February, 2012 at 19:09
The furthest point away from Ibrox is in the sea off the coast of New Zealand, roughly.
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That’s where that hun lockie from Tom McLaughlin’s work
comes from.Would not trust the place.
The more that we hear from our hero Craig, the more D Murray’s duplicity and manipulation is exposed.
The nonsense that he spouted and the MSM retransmitted when he was trying sell RFC in Administration. He spent years telling everyone that he would only sell to someone who had the best interests of their club at heart. After all those stories, he sells to a man with no money, an exposed liar and banned director, a man whose commercial record was in the number of firms he closed down and asset stripped, and a man who wasn’t we even a fan in the first place.
Now that the full glare of the spotlight is being turned on the whole thing, I look forward to the revelations from the various investigations. I originally thought they would all be whitewashing their conclusions, but with Rangers Tax Case, Phil Mac, Paul McC, Paul67 and others on their case, NONE of those investigations can afford to slip up. Today’s article from our own Paul is a taster of things to come, and we know that Uefa are watching too. In fact, the SFA inquiry is likely to have been in response to correspondence from Uefa. I am so glad that I sent that email to Michel Platini.
Funny how it’s all gone quiet on the political front. Salmond is too busy trying to get his size tens out from between his molars.
Happy days indeed.
As to the “Scottish football needs Rangers” crap, as someone on a recent phone in said..
“If RFC are so good for Scottish football, how come it’s in the awful mess it’s in now. RFC has corrupted Scottish football and indeed Scottish society.”
HH
RWE CSC
Furthest point from the bigotdome
St Peters Square
Terrible day for us :(
CW admitting he will walk away, even though he quotes Sally by saying he doesnt walk away…couldnt make the stupidity of it up
I told you this presenter on Clyde is enjoying this,By saturday.the skint mob could be third.Slan
Dead and Loving it says:
21 February, 2012 at 19:04
Does anybody know the furthest point in the world from Ibrox?
Em, Celtic Park?
Hail Hail
Sky – for the Napoli game – 3 pundits and a host, trackside in the pissing rain, looking thoroughly stupid.
Stop it for God’s sake. What possible difference could 4 twonkers sitting next to a park make to my enjoyment of Chelsea getting pumped…
u
HT the Vogue punter has written that from his armchair, I’ll bet he turns into the scribe of all scribes when he gets his fat ass off the chair….. Big VW telt me tae insert the last bit.
V
Good evening friends.
Can it really get any better? of course it could, starting with Chelsea getting pumped tonight!
Jobo
thebhoyfromoz says:
21 February, 2012 at 18:56
Can anyone tell me when the league cup final tickets go on sale?
asked the same question today…..to no response
called the ticket office. They are going to do a ballot for season ticket holders, then send out offer letters, they couldnt tell me how many we are getting
or when the ballot is taking place.
somebody posted the “prawn sandwich” offers earlier on. They’re on the home page of the Celtic website.
PC67
Stupid clown from Fascist Fascist says on Clyde – barefaced lie – nae thread on FF wanting rid of Catholics and Muslims first.
Delahunt says are you sure? I read it myself.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Where does Sean get his heroin from?
I thought: this guys voice is getting slower & slower he wipl eventually just coelesce into one long monotone buzz…a bit like the old tv test card turned down low.
Dazzle: everybody is talkin about the rangers going down to third divisions…why does he use nouns in a plural sense? Are rangers heading for multiple meltdowns?