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  1. The Times (English edition) Oliver Kay, chief football correspondent on the list "After the court cases, the points deduction, the liquidation (of Rangers Football Club plc) and the demotion to the fourth tier of Scottish football, there are calls for the club to be stripped of the trophies they won while illegally using an employee benefit trust fund to pay players between 2001 and 2010. Cheating scum.....
  2. William Austin Nimmo Smith Level 5 are fully engaged to undermine the desire to strip titles. The last thing the football authorities want is a Judicial Review of the privately commissioned report. Despite what Stephen Kerr and one of the malleable Record hacks would have us believe, there are two mechanisms. A judicial review, as is the case with Mike Ashley’s petition to the Court of Session, contravenes the SFA’s articles of association, which deem that the highest court that clubs can appeal to is The Court of Arbitration for Sports. As we have seen with the approval of King, it’s possible to transgress one article on 41 occasions and still be deemed fit and proper at an SFA kangaroo court. Paul Murray was approved by the eleven member Professional Gaming Board. Regan,Ogilvie,McRae & Doncaster set up a meeting of eight members with only seven votes, knowing in advance that they would prevail. King’s approval was a shoddy back room deal. It’s also, incredibly, possible to be serving a suspended sentence for contempt of court, something The Record is studiously avoiding. A cynic might suggest that they don’t want you to know the facts. They have a history of misinformation. As Ashley’s counsel will point out, how can the SFA justify approving an individual who is under licence for three years on a three months prison sentence. King was convicted of contempt on 22 February 2013. King’s supporters point to the Court of Session ruling as proof that a court has deemed King ‘fit & proper.’ This is typical of how misinformed they are. As a former director of RFC plc, King had to apply for permission to be a director of a similarly named club. There is a five years moratorium on directors of a failed enterprise. This is to preclude a company going out of business one day leaving debts behind with the receivers, then setting up the following day. It was a Companies Act technicality. As we saw with LSE AIM, no NOMAD would represent a man with forty-one criminal convictions who is currently under licence. Ashley’s counsel will hammer this point home at The Court of Session on 4th February. Those who wish to add gravitas to the report by Mr Smith refer to him as Lord. However this is a misnomer.Lords of Appeal in Ordinary, commonly known as Law Lords, were appointed under the Appellate Jurisdiction Act 1876 to the House of Lords of the United Kingdom in order to exercise its judicial functions, which included acting as the highest court of appeal for most domestic matters. To be appointed a Lord of Appeal in Ordinary under the 1876 Act, an individual was required to have been a practising barrister for a period of fifteen years or to have held a high judicial office. Two years experience as a judge in the Court of Appeal, High Court or Court of Session is sufficient to attain the title of Lord of Appeal in Ordinary. Mr Smith retired from the bench on 30th September 2009. The title Lord.ismerely a courtesy, and since he is not active, he is not a Lord of Appeal. Mr Smith’s report was so flawed that I can understand why successive Rangers administrations have refused to pay the £250,000 fine and costs. Campbell Ogilvie, who was compromised, went out of his way to mitigate his guilt in administrating EBT at Rangers. He refused to cooperate fully with Harper McLeod who were assigned to collate the pertinent information. Sandy Bryson came up with the‘imperfectly registered caveat’ which is a legal travesty. Any junior counsel would raze this nonsense to the ground. The following statement is the central plank of Mr Smith’s report: “Although the payments in this case were not themselves irregular and were not in breach of SPL or SFA Rules, the scale and extent of the proven contraventions of the disclosure rules require a substantial penalty to be imposed.” They were in breach of SPL and SFA rules as they were in breach of the laws of the land. As social taxes were not paid they were also in breach of UEFA rules. This report is fundamentally flawed. A judicial review would set it aside in a matter of months. As a shareholder in Rangers, Mike Ashley could challenge it. As someone who is hell-bent on exposing malfeasance at the SFA, this is one of the options he may choose to explore.
  3. Good read... David McCarthy at The Daily Record If I were a journalist at The Daily Record, as is the case with David McCarthy, who would be the ideal source for an ‘off the record’ opinion on the EBT fiasco? Some might posit that he might look no further than Darryl Broadfoot is his guise as Head of Communications and Corporate Affairs at the SFA. Of course Mr Broadfoot would not be foolish enough to quote ‘double jeopardy‘ as a credible rationale on the record, but if Mr McCarthy chose to run with it as a ‘source’ Mr Broadfoot might be unlikely to demur. If this is the case, then the SFA are running scared. There is an appetite for titles stripping, but the clubs disadvantaged by David Murray defrauding the exchequer for £10 for every £5 spent by CFC, from 1998 to 2001, will be keeping their powder dry until 2nd December when the twenty-eight day appeal window closes. To hide behind the flimsy and highly compromised Smith report is untenable. The CFC board, if pressed by shareholders to do so, could take this matter to The Court of Arbitration for Sports. However Peter Lawwell and Eric Riley. who are in the tents of the SFA and SPFL respectively, would be loath to cut the guy ropes. If other clubs were prepared to back CFC, or resign from the SPFL on a point of principle, then the consensus for change would be compelling. The SFA/SPL had a problem with The Discounted Option Scheme (DOS). It was illegal and tax was due. They had to limit the scope of the Smith commission. Mr Smith might have reasonably concluded that the directors who signed off on the illegal DOS might engage in other ‘irregular‘ tax evasion instruments. The deal that best suited everyone was for Rangers to take a hit on non-disclosure, and walk away from the non-payment of social taxes. This would protect Bryson from a charge of negligence and thus allow him to propagate his ‘imperfectly registered but eligible‘ fallback position. Who would be better placed than Campbell Ogilvie to sell this deal to Rangers? But at this point, the SFA’s carefully crafted cover up begins to unravel. In the past a quiet word from a former executive of Rangers to a current office incumbent would lead to the desired result. If Gordon Smith were having a chat with David Murray, I would be open for the former convincing the latter of the need to pay the fine in the best interests of everyone. I’m fairly certain that the relationship was so tight that they could have patched in Gavin Masterson at The Bank of Scotland to their conference call, and it would have been put to bed immediately. Unfortunately, Charles Green would not even recognize the jurisdiction of the SPL on an SFL club therefore Campbell’s entreaties were futile. The fine and costs remain unpaid to this day. The fans on social media are now fully aware of the facts of this SFA/SPFL conspiracy.They don’t have the wherewithal to take this matter into their own hands, so they will be forced to sit on them. CFC are alleged to have lost £17.2m in domestic prize money but who would they sue for its reparation? BDO? It’s not going to happen. Do CFC want five league titles where they were runners-up? I doubt it. Only a judicial review would remove these Spanish practices from our game. However those with the most to lose are more powerful than those agitating for reform.
  4. I see what you did there, genius Vicky Do you scumbags follow follow any rules or regulations?
  5. http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351576661359?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1558.l2649&clk_rvr_id=928846647830&afsrc=1&rmvSB=true Always someone making money off the ***s
  6. Not really mate, just legal expert type folk pointing it out in court rather than us obsessed diddies and plastics... Enjoy your dinner..
  7. Sensible folk pointed out Rangers cheated and died and sevco bought the dead clubs assets, the scum are threatening everyone...
  8. How to win friends and influence people the rangers way Step 1: Barely concealed contempt coupled with vague threats... Dignity, you wouldn't understand...
  9. Tedis hero has had his say.. @ChrisGraham76 I do hope that the 3-4 SPFL chairman and their low level paper gatherer pay attention to that statement. They'd be unwise not to. Plenty of threats coming form the hoards tonight...Must of been a bad day, What happened?
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