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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In the year they were going for 10-in-a-row they held a prseason friendly of the blues v the whites (first team v second team) the daily record had the headline Which of these two teams will win the league?
THESE ARE GOOD DAYS
Hamiltontim..
Ditto ,though on the football run with junior ABs… I quite like the peace in the car!! Of course I don’t text and drive!
HH
Am I the only one who surmised from Jabbas comments that Rangers no longer own Ibrox?
Bacl ontp that fecking ipod
Pardon the typos
iPaddy McCourt says:
21 February, 2012 at 19:54
Goodbye! Goodbye!
You were the billy boys
Goodbye! Goodbye!
Our hearts are filled with joy
(ok someone help me out with the next bit!)
====
We’ve been up to our knees in all your sh*t
for far to f*cking long
So hurry up and die billy boys!
HH
/Bishop B
DUSHANBE BHILLY BHOY says:
Thanks, a great memory of a wonderful time.
Furthest point from Ibrox?
Deacon Blue
AndyM says:
21 February, 2012 at 20:00
iPaddy McCourt says:
21 February, 2012 at 19:54
Goodbye! Goodbye!
You were the billy boys
Goodbye! Goodbye!
Our hearts are filled with joy
(ok someone help me out with the next bit!)
Your up to your knees in invoices
Defaulted and you died
You were the bigot billy boys
(Repeat with gusto)
…………………………………………………..
what about
goodbye goodbye
the huns are going to die
goodbye goodbye
the huns are going to die
their up to there knees in lawyer fees
and we love to watch them cry
jelly and ice cream when they die
DUSHANBE BHILLY BHOY says:
21 February, 2012 at 19:57
Sorry, that is what I meant (how did that comma get there), I met Saltires when on a training course early last month – Top bloke, he spoke highly of you – could only remember the Bhilly bhoy part of your name.
Anyway, a friend of a friend ;-)
hh
bjmac
PS He said you’ve to calm down ;-)
Mick says:
21 February, 2012 at 18:00
MGS 05s2—- Any ideas?
Mick – that pic can’t be from the Rangers deal. Only today Craig Whyte told us that that deal is only for 3 years of tickets, not 4.
jockcfc says:
21 February, 2012 at 20:04
Take a bow my mhan.
Total class.
jelly&icecreamcsc
HH
/Bishop B
Do not really listen to Clyde too much, apart from these last few days, but is anyone else of the opinion that Jim Delahunt is quietly enjoying the Huns plight. I especially liked him telling the Hurtin’ Hun who complained about the Poppy Banner to write to PL for an explanation.
Len Brennan says:
21 February, 2012 at 20:05
jockcfc says:
thank you…
Daz asks Celtic fan “what he was doing on the ff website anyway”? Then Delahunt says “I was on it too and saw that stuff” Oh ma sides are crackin!!
oglach says:
21 February, 2012 at 20:06
Do not really listen to Clyde too much, apart from these last few days, but is anyone else of the opinion that Jim Delahunt is quietly enjoying the Huns plight. I especially liked him telling the Hurtin’ Hun who complained about the Poppy Banner to write to PL for an explanation.
ooohhh I am pretty sure he is enjoying it a lot :-) just think!! if they go bust will all the media Celts come out????? no need to hide it anymore to keep your job?
Arranmore
I can’t drive, listen to Dalziel, crash the car and text all at the same time! :-)
What the hell is that Napoli defender wearing on his heid? looks like a pair of undies!
Jude 2005
jim said that somebody sent him that earlier today
the sack the taig thread was on the rangers media site
HH
Thems want Durants wife sacked first cos she’s a Catholic.
Nakagod
Steady son!!
I would go along with durrrants wife getting sacked first
that will mean nobody in that house will be working shortly
HaHa HaHa
You pigthick Billy boys
HaHa HaHa
With all your cheatin ploys
Yer sh#tey team is history
Yer teams about to die
The Taxman is gonnae steal yer toys.
Several `papers mentioned the banned songs being sung at Ibrox on Saturday but I have not heard anything from Officialdom. Although on a personal level I don`t give a hoot what they sing, I do give several hoots that they are reported as we were for chanting which only Eddy (?) heard. So, if nothing has been reported by the match commander (?), who do I contact to ask about such a situation?
JJ
bjmac
The missus just got banned from Folly Folly :-)))))
THIS JUST IN: David Murray annouces the launch of ‘THE SUNDAY RANGERS’
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=2219
Anyone else think that Joe will spend the rest of his career at Celtic. I think he will.
hamiltontim says:
21 February, 2012 at 20:16
What kind of mhan are you? Don’t let your loved
ones near that site…….the wife included.
If i was a chelski player i’d be queuing up to come off with an upper leg strain on a regular basis ;-).
That fascist fascist caller on snyde:
See rat rer tim whit wiz oan jist there
Martin?
Aye him. Heez noffin bit a bear faced liar…am aye oan folly folly in we,re oh as white as new driven snow so wae urr…
Delahunt: but i’ve seen those pages
Aye well see that martin ive goat rusty chiv wae hiz name oan it…jist wanted yaw tae know that…awright.
Okay. Next caller please.
Song for Poundland on the 25th
As they are fond of their dambusters music etc. how about that old world war 2 classic
” we’ll meet again , don’t know where, if ever again ”
nice bit of sentiment in the song……..They just love Vera Lynn
( remember singing that at tannadice years ago when DU were relegated )
VP
She’ll no’ be on it anymore :-))
Furthest place from £land? Estadio Nacional??
Hamiltontim
How long did it take them to work out the moniker mrshamiltontim might no be a cream bun (nearest month will do)?
HH
best song so far
vera lynn
WE’LL MEET AGAIN
Cracker
row z
One post!!
She’s bloody useless at this covert business.
Just read, don’t post…I told her!!!
Did she listen? Naw!!
She did get a real shock, she described it as a feeding frenzy in response to her post.
With liquidation looming
I think the song for Ibrokes should be
THE CRY WAS PASS THE BLENDER ,THE BLENDER AS YOU DIE
hail hail
fergus… homeric
best line of the night
Hamiltontim
You can take the wumin oot a follow follow but can you take follow follow oot the wummin?
That is the 1690 question!!!
MWD