All week I’ve been telling myself that it is a healthy thing that discriminatory chanting has come under the spotlight prior to Euro 2012. The world needs to focus on those who are unable to find an outlet for their testosterone without picking on the vulnerable.
We know all about discriminatory chanting in Scotland, you could say, we’re up to our knees in it, so I’ve been slightly uncomfortable at the tone to some of the reporting about Poland and Ukraine. It feels a bit like we’ve decided, ‘They have it too, let’s talk about them. Not us’. When I say “us”, I don’t mean you, of course.
Fair enough, I thought, let’s bring this issue out, but at the start of the second half between Netherlands and Denmark when BBC commentator Jonathan Pearce reported “We haven’t heard any racist comments here today. Not when the young, black, Dutch left back got the ball, or at any other time” I figured this is more about xenophobia than racism. Xenophobia about Eastern Europe.
We’re no wiser about how to deal with our testosterone-fuelled under-achievers with a purpose to find than anyone else. In fact, we’re worse for allowing our intellectuals to indulge in the last refuge of the scoundrel.
My money is on the Polish and Ukrainian fans emerging from this tournament with a better reputation than some of their Western European counterparts.
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Gonnae you be the company secretary, Campbell? Eh? Me?……Aye, okay.
“As an officer of the company at the centre of the decision-making process, the Company Secretary has a major duty to play in ensuring that good corporate governance is practiced. He should assist and guide the directors in their pursuit of profit and growth but must also act with integrity and impartially to protect the interests of the company, its shareholders, its employees and other key
stakeholders such as the Government suppliers, the society at large, among others. Today’s Company Secretary should play a pro-active and central role in company governance. This requires excellent communication skills, a
thorough knowledge of the company’s business and applicable regulations, strength of character, integrity and professionalism.”
“I didn’t do the contracts. I might have signed some documents from time to time.”
blantyre tim
Yes I am, but you know how it is once your on holiday, time means absolutely nothing, my thoughts on the Ireland games have been pre centered on the game against Spain, therefore completely forgetting that they play Italy before that, yes I know, no one need tell me, por cierto..
The bowler is Holding
The batsman’s Willie.
Kit- and history just shows how complicated the World was/is/and will be forever.
N.Tranter restored a castle an Clackmannan, maybe that’s the house ole Pabbers meant.
If I was ever forced to pick just one Irish song, just one… then this would be my choice. The West’s Awake
In the unlikely event a CVA is passed on Thursday the following timeline occurs:
12th July (no laughing at the back) – Green gets access to the RFC season book sales escrow account and all its funds.
31st July (19 DAYS LATER) – Green settles CVA by putting £8.5m into RFC bank account.
Q – How many books need sold to deliver a £8.5m ‘loan’?
A – About 17,000
Huns GIVE Green £8.5m+ which he then LOANS back to them at 8.5% p.a. over 8 years………
Yip………… Stupid Huns
HH
Krohn-Dehli reminds me of Shaun just with a little more physicality about him.
Great little player.
Just read the Ogilvie interview. I would guess it was done by e-mail and that he would only answer certain questions.
But his case seems to be that he didn’t do his job properly, he signed things off without understanding what he was signing and he received contractual payments through an EBT.
A fit and proper person?
Ignorance is no defence Gordon…he gotta go!
Kittoch
the batsman’s Willey not willie.
Whilst that was funny the sadly late Graham Dilley contributed to an Ashes cracker of Lillie caught Willey bowled Dilley.
Ive always loved that one
Rocket Man,
Exactly. Never mind the conflict of interest, he has also freely admitted that he didn’t carry out his role as a company director with the diligence required. Great administrator? Total fraud more like.
kitalba on 10 June, 2012 at 10:21 said:
Certainly a very rousing song – but my little knowledge of Irish history suggested it wasn’t.
Sign of the Times —— Euro 2012
Packed beach bar in Vendicari -the reason -football -the game — Brazil – Argentina. No sign of any interest in anything European .
4 games in [ all forecast correctly] and money growing in the pot —- The Greek penalty had me worried but Hey – he missed it – Big thanks..
Injuries mean that Italy look likely to line up 3-5-2 with a team featuring 6 Juve players . Looks like they will be forced to play De Rossi at centre half . He is many things but he is not a centre half… Looks like Italy are going to have to play an attacking game.
Italian media using Euro 2012. as an opportunity to get stuck into UEFA . General theme is that UEFA is blabber and smoke personified. Lots of policies -no action ..
Low 90s —– sunny -way down south.
What I can’t fathom if RCO had nothing to do with the contracts, what exactly did his job entail?
Did he take money for doing nothing?
He is therefore a charlatan or a liar?
Was his job just ceremonial rubber stamping and therefore not undertaking the duties of a company director.
Damn right – conflicted and dereliction of duty. Nice of him to offer his resignation.
I feel an e-petition is being drafted as we speak…
Q: As secretary you would have registered the contracts with the appropriate football bodies presumably?
A: No. That’s what I’m saying. I didn’t deal with player contracts at that time.
Q: Who was responsible?
A: Whoever was dealing with the financial side. You’ve got to go back in time here. Football contracts used to be a straightforward one sheet of paper. Over time contracts, like any sponsorship, contracts became quite complicated.
good old campbell i just signed them off ?
by doing so you confirmed they were complete and met scottish football association rules.
someone eles dealt with the player contracts ?
so campbell the other person was employed by rangers and fully versed in sfa rules and regulation regards documents to be submitted to spl and sfa .(if not why not flag this up at time )
next we will be getting i cannot remember said documents and that was not my job or signiture.
taxi for yer man campbell
Gordon_J
….or he is the best waffler in Waffledum…….probably why he is ‘surviving’ this monumental / disgusting shambles….
The entire administration process has been managed to ‘delay’ any action against the ‘despicable’ / shameless shafting of Scottish Football until the FTC decision is published……why ? ……. Because
The Scottish Football Estabishment are desperate to save their favoured club
The administrators want to maximise their ‘fees’……….and
The venture capitalists want to buy & sell, at a profit…
We are watching greed / politics at their worst…
All we can do is sit back and watch the fun………..the longer it goes on, the bigger the crash …….. Just like a runaway lorry crashing down a steep hill.
Watch the panic on Thursday when the -1p in the pound CVA is summarily rejected…..
HAIL HAIL
RCOs role kind of confirms what I suspected about many of these so called directors. It would appear some do not carry out the roles that their positions legally entail. They take out healthy salaries, whilst simply turning up at match days every other weekend sitting in the posh seats. Taking the glory when it all goes well but absolving themselves of blame when it doesn’t.
Blaming others whilst not carrying out your role properly cannot be an acceptable excuse. Especially for one of the major role players at our football association.
Jobs for the boys – not the boys.
Not the bhoys.
A wee example of the mainstream media at work.
A guy I know who is in a band was talking about new instruments on Facebook and made a joke about another band member winning Euromillions so everything would be fine. He received this message:
“I am a reporter at the Sun and spotted on Facebook a comment about one of your members winning £64m.
I assume this is a joke but thought I had better check!
If he has actually won the EuroMillions then we would be very keen to talk to him about it.
I am on ***** if you wished to give me a ring.
Please let me know.
Many thanks”
Bhoys you need to except the funny hand shakes have sorted out all the mess the Huns are in. CVA will go through,Salmond and others putting pressure on HMRC. Get banned from Scottish cup for a year or two, pages and pages will be wrote about it on here. MSM will be writing exclusive interviews about Gattuso and other signings.
http://www.nufcblog.co.uk/2012/06/10/best-and-forster-would-do-well-at-celtic/
From todays Scotland on Sunday.
Ten-year ban for solicitor who failed to pass on Scottish miners’ compensation
By NEIL POORAN
Published on Sunday 10 June 2012 00:00
A SOLICITOR who failed to pass on tens of thousands of pounds to the families of former miners in Scotland has been barred from the profession for a decade.
Paul McConville admitted 40 cases of professional misconduct which deprived grieving relatives of substantial compensation awards.
The 45-year-old lawyer from Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, sought out cases involving Scottish coal-mine workers who had been injured or had died as a result of their work. But he bungled their handling, failing to claim and pass on compensation money despite offers being made and ignoring clients’ desperate pleas for information.
One relative represented by McConville has revealed she has not seen a penny of a £9,000 compensation offer made through him in 2009.
The Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal (SSDT) decided this month at a hearing in Edinburgh that McConville had brought the profession into disrepute and was told he would not be allowed to work as a solicitor again until 2022 at the earliest, although he will be able to work as a legal assistant. Announcing the decision, SSDT chairwoman Dorothy Boyd said: “The tribunal finds you guilty of fundamental misconduct.”
McConville was a partner at the Glasgow-based McConville O’Neill in June 2001 until the company ceased trading in 2010. At the time, a large number of cases involving miners were being pursued against the government’s Coal Liabilities Unit.
Many of these cases were taken up by lawyers acting for the National Union of Mineworkers. But depending on how active the union branch was, firms like McConville O’Neill stepped in.
McConville admitted professional misconduct, involving 40 cases of ignoring the Law Society as well as clients and their MPs.
His former partner, Ciaran O’Neill, also appeared before the SSDT on 1 June. O’Neill faced a charge of “Inadequate Professional Service” related to the fact he was a partner and responsible for the conduct of the firm. Both lawyers were ordered to pay compensation of £9,000 to the Law Society of Scotland.
Valerie Johnston, for the Law Society, said: “Where a solicitor does not respond, it adversely affects the perception of the whole legal profession. Clients were not being dealt with in an appropriate way by the firm McConville O’Neill.”
James McCann, representing McConville, claimed his actions were caused by depression. He said stress after a fine was levied on his company “led to an unacceptable pattern of dealing with things”.
McConville is now working voluntarily for the Citizens’ Advice Bureau in Hamilton, said McCann.
Former client Mary Hunter said McConville was supposed to process a £500 compensation claim, but he refused to communicate with her. Her miner father George, who served in the Black Watch, died in 1965 of bronchitis.
“I’m over the moon to hear he won’t be able to practise,” she said. “No lawyer should do that, you would expect better of them.”
She claimed that at one point McConville faked a fire alarm in his office when she spoke to him over the phone.
Another client, Helen Baxter, 81, said McConville had failed to progress a £9,000 claim of compensation relating to her father-in-law Henry who died in 1981 of mining-related lung problems.
She said: “I’ve not received anything yet. I got told when I phoned that they had moved premises. He should’ve been locked up.”
Fife Labour MP Lindsay Roy, who took up the cases, said: “I am delighted action has been taken to discipline Mr McConville. However, every effort must be made to ensure justice is done for the many clients who had faith in him to secure compensation awards.’’
France won the Euros in 1984 after a 24 year absence from the finals.
Greece won it in 2004, again 24 years since their last appearance in the finals.
Later today Ireland take the field against Croatia in what will be their first Euro finals in…..24 years.
Dare to dream.
COYBIG
kitalba on 10 June, 2012 at 10:07 said: ….
I well remember Pablo posting about dropping in on Nigel Tranter, to tell the great man how much pleasure he had taken from his story-telling.
If my memory is accurate, he lived in Aberlady & Pablo was working over that way.
I often think that very few people would have taken that kind of action
It just indicates the special nature of the character we knew as Pablo.
Rest In Peace.
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/06/10/a-letter-to-the-editor-of-scotland-on-sunday-10-june-2012/
Only fair to post Paul Mcc response.
So what you’re saying, Paul67, is that the bigotted chanting of a minority is being used to tarnish an entire nation? That would never happen on CQN!
Sicilian bookies ——-
Ireland 12/5 Draw 21/10 / Croatia 13/10
Spain 4/5 Draw 5/2 Italy 15/4
France 6/4 Draw 21/10 England 21 /10
By Tom English
Published on Sunday 10 June 2012 01:36
JUST when you thought the Rangers story couldn’t get any wackier Andrea D’Amico flies in from Italy and says he’s come to Glasgow to negotiate the return of Rino Gattuso to Ibrox.
Pardon? “It is Rino’s wish to come back to Rangers,” said D’Amico. Is it really? “He knows all about the financial situation,” continued the Italian. “We know it is difficult but we can work to find a solution.”
D’Amico reckons that something can be sorted out. The fact that Rangers are not in Europe is not an issue for Rino, he says. Phew!
It was brilliantly surreal stuff and entirely in keeping with a saga that has veered off into all sorts of bizarre places. D’Amico arrived on Thursday and supposedly met Rangers’ director of football administration, Andrew Dickson. Gattuso, himself, has spoken to Ally McCoist, it seems. And then there was this from Charles Green, a statement that appeared to lend credence to the notion that the club with no money and massive debts, the club that has no right to sign players because they’re in administration, the club that may not even be playing football next season depending on what Lord Carloway and his panel determine in the coming weeks, is taking seriously this fantasy of the 34-year-old Italian who played four Serie A games for his club last season returning to Rangers on some kind of emotional lap of honour to end his career.
“Fans should be aware of just how big the club is when one of the greatest players publicly states he wants to finish his career at Rangers at a time when we can’t sign anyone,” said Green. “He [Gattuso] has confirmed he wants to play for Rangers and that is something we could do if we were able to sign someone.’’
Let’s consider this for a second. Imagine if Rangers came out of administration tomorrow and were suddenly able to sign a player. Would Gattuso be a sensible piece of business? A 34-year-old looking for a soft fade into retirement or a younger player who they might train up and sell on for profit?
If Rangers is to become a business instead of an economic basket case where does the financial logic lie in bringing in Gattuso? There isn’t any. Nor, I suspect, is there any real intention on Rangers’ part to do a deal with him, even if Green manages to get his CVA past the creditors, thereby lifting the ban on them signing new players. On the field of play, Rangers need many things – a couple of new centre-forwards for starters – but they don’t need Gattuso.
They have gone along with things, though. They’ve played up Gattuso’s interest and they’ve stated that here lies proof that high-profile players would love to come and sign for Rangers, despite all the troubles. Maybe it’s a feelgood exercise. Maybe, in these wretched times, they’re flattered that a World Cup winner would like to join them and they’re milking it for all it’s worth. Perhaps they’re unaware how this looks from the outside, though. Rangers are currently trying to seal a CVA that, if successful, is going to result in the biggest bonfire of creditor debt in the history of Scottish football and yet here they are being seen to be in talks with Gattuso about joining the club just as soon as all that debt is burned off. Green would have been a whole lot better off had he not allowed himself to get drawn into the Gattuso transfer story. But he did.
If Green had any sense – and, let’s face it, he is a very sharp operator – then, instead of speculating about transfers, he’d be trying to work the public relations in readiness for Rangers accepting the Scottish Football Association’s transfer embargo after all. It’s a hell of a mess the club is in on that front. Administrators Duff & Phelps, overcome by the collective victimhood that gripped Rangers when the transfer ban was handed down in the first place, went to war without ever figuring out what exactly was going to happen if they got the ban overturned, which, of course, they did.
Lord Carloway has had his own approval of the original verdict thrown back at him by Lord Glennie and is scheduled to pick an alternative sanction for the crimes of the Craig Whyte era. You wouldn’t dare second-guess what is going to happen, but there must be a realistic chance that Carloway will opt for the most severe punishment which would see Rangers turfed out of football for a season.
This is what Duff & Phelps failed to see when their hair caught fire from all the ridiculous indignation that swept around the club at the time. Despite McCoist’s hysterical response, the transfer embargo was actually a result, of sorts, for Rangers given the other doomsday options that were available.
It was certainly a result for Green. For the prospective owner and his mystery consortium, a transfer ban would have come as something of a godsend. It would have given him breathing space. It would have meant that the supporters wouldn’t be getting on his case to spend money on new players. Above all, it would have meant that Rangers kept hold of a licence to compete, but that has to be in question now.
It would be a surprise if Green wasn’t privately trying to get the original verdict back on the table. That, we understand, is exactly what he is trying to do whether Gattuso’s representative knows it or not. Gattuso’s agent, D’Amico, says that he can “work a solution” but, unless he had many millions of pounds in that bag of his as he breezed through the airport the other day, then we doubt he’s capable of coming up with anything but an amusing sideshow in the Rangers story. He has much competition on that front, of course.
In a week that threw up a number of strange stories you wouldn’t know what was the most fantastic – Dave King taking a £20m claim against Rangers which he would then reinvest in, er, Rangers or Gattuso’s own off-the-wall tale? This is a circus seemingly without end.
jungle jam67 on 10 June, 2012 at 10:50 said:
Q: As secretary you would have registered the contracts with the appropriate football bodies presumably?
A: No. That’s what I’m saying. I didn’t deal with player contracts at that time.
Q: Who was responsible?
A: Whoever was dealing with the financial side. You’ve got to go back in time here. Football contracts used to be a straightforward one sheet of paper. Over time contracts, like any sponsorship, contracts became quite complicated.
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The logical next question is missing:
So Mr Ovalguy, who was it at RFC who was dealing with player contracts and the ‘financial’ side?? You must know who passed you this stuff to get registered? Surely?
Cam Buel translated into English as ‘Crooked Mouth’ – How Appropriate!
HH
Lennons passion 11.09
You are almost a lone star.
I really do hope that you are wrong,but i fear that you are closer to the truth than many want to believe.
TT
That Campbell Ogilvie interview reminded me of that old adage: you should keep your mouth shut and be thought of as a fool, rather than open it and remove all doubt.
Spare a thought for this man
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23MahmoudSarsak
One thing regular readers of this blog ought to have learned by now is that very little that appears in the newspapers is completely accurate, and almost nothing is free of bias, intended or otherwise:
from “Random Musings”
A Letter to the Editor of Scotland on Sunday 10 June 2012
I have been referred to in the Scotland on Sunday today. As there are a number of material inaccuracies in the article, and as there may be readers who come to this blog with the wrong impression, I reproduce below my response to it, which has been emailed to the Editor and posted as a comment on the Scotland on Sunday website.
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Dear Sir,
I refer to the article published in your newspaper today under the headline “Ten-year ban for solicitor who failed to pass on Scottish miners’ compensation”.
I wish to point out a number of inaccuracies in the article and trust that the appropriate corrections will be made to the online edition, and that a suitable correction notice will be placed in your newspaper.
First of all, the headline is incorrect. The sanction imposed, and I will refer to this again below, was not a “ban” but a restriction on working as a principal in a law firm ie a Partner. I am entitled to work as an employed solicitor with Law Society approval and under supervision by the firm for whom I work.
The reference to failing to pass on compensation implies dishonesty, and that any funds not passed on were kept by me.
It was accepted at the Tribunal by the Law Society and by the Tribunal that there was “no question of dishonesty”, and that “every penny of clients’ funds had been accounted for”.
Dealing with the specifics of the article, as referred to above, I have not been “barred from the profession”. I am permitted to work as an employed solicitor with Law Society approval and under supervision.
The fifth paragraph of the article repeats that I will not be permitted to work as a solicitor. Again, that is wrong. The statement that I will be allowed to work as a “legal assistant” implies that that is not a solicitor. As mentioned, that is not the case.
In the eleventh paragraph, reference is made to a “fine” having been imposed on the firm, contributing to the problems. That is incorrect and no such statement was made regarding a “fine”. Reference to a “fine” implies some form of wrongdoing. There was no such “fine”.
Your quote from Mrs Hunter is based on an inaccurate premise, as I am allowed to continue to practise, as referred to above. The accusation of “faking a fire alarm” is untrue.
As regards details of individual cases, client confidentiality prevents me making any specific comment.
I regret that there were cases where for the reasons explained at the hearing, clients’ affairs were not progressed as well as they should have been, and I apologise for that. However, over the time my firm operated, we had many thousands of satisfied clients, on whose behalf we had obtained justice. That does not excuse even one lapse, but I mention it for purposes of perspective.
I am posting this as a comment on your online piece, as well as emailing it to you.
I look forward to hearing from you as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely,
Gattuso ———
The Italian version ———
Talks are continuing
There has been 2 meetings
Another meeting has been arranged.
Nothing has been agreed..
Gattuso’s agent wants assurances that Rangers are in the position of being able to sign Gattuso.
Gattuso’s agent wants assurances that Rangers have the necessary money to finance a deal ..
Gattus’s agent wants assurances that Rangers have ” a solid future “
‘Rhinoceros (French original title Rhinocéros) is a play by Eugène Ionesco, written in 1959. The play belongs to the school of drama known as the Theatre of the Absurd’
-‘Theatre of the Absurd’ covers the return of wee Rino to Minas Morgul.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyTh4VWhdME&feature=player_embedded
Green Brigade 2011/12 video
How much is gattuso paying them to play for them. Is it true gattuso is going to finance a block of portaloos at their ground – Fir park