Florentine_Pogen

The air is certainly a bit cleaner today. No H*n apologists spouting their "Scottish fitba' needs RaPeepul" pish. They've gone all quiet. Chick Faeces gone quiet. Fatty Traynor starting to sing from a different songsheet. Billy Dodds currently having reconstructive surgery. It's going to be a beautiful day. Oh yes.

Mr. Regan and his cronies would do well to remember that society as a whole shall be better off without the H*ns. Lest we forget :- http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fvY-AAAAIBAJ&sjid=aU0MAAAAIBAJ&pg=3550%2C2109541

From Quiet Assassin on KDS :- http://croatiantimes.com/news/Sports/2012-03-29/26046/Hajduk_Split_suspended_from_football_league Obviously the Croatian FA have a pair of testicles.

If your thesis is correct, it only reinforces the argument for a root and branch clear out of the SFA / SPL. You are basically saying that the SFA, as an organisation, are too craven and afraid to apply their own rules to one of their member clubs. We can but hope, eh ?

There's every possibility that a lot of fat couch potatoes are actually Vikings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leif_Ericson

I wouldn't get your knickers too wet about this as the H*ns have already stuck two fingers up at the SFA. From the SFA Articles of Association :- The Association and It's Membership 3. The Association is a Member of FIFA and UEFA. Accordingly, it itself is obliged to :- (i) Comply with statutes, regulations, directives, codes and decisions and the International Match Calendar of FIFA, UEFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport and The Laws of the Game issued by IFAB. (ii) Recognise the jurisdiction of the Court of Arbitration for Sport as specified in the relevant provisions of the FIFA Statutes and the UEFA Statutes. Regan should have made his statement as soon as D+P mentioned the CoS, no ? Typical SFA, locking the stable door after the horse has bolted.

Fill yer boots :- https://twitter.com/#!/search/%23DoncasterGandhiQuotes

If it's that doughnut Brewer asking the questions, Bungcaster will get an easy ride, no question.

Certainly wouldn't be piecing together shredded documents. Cockwomble as Chief Executive ? My arse.

http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11669/7787958/Smith-out-of-Reds-running "Former Rangers director of football Smith was also in the frame for the role at Liverpool, but his adviser, Jonathan Hope, has confirmed the ex Scottish Football Association chief executive has ruled out a switch to Anfield and is considering several offers from abroad." Presumably "several offers" from countries that don't have an extradition treaty with the UK ? (As if Liverpool would give a buffoon like Wiggy the time of day anyway.) _________________________________________________________________ Nice to see Hughie Green squealing like a stuck pig now - "Please gaunnae talk to me Stewart, gaunnae please ?"

Latest from Barcabhoy on RTC :- Barcabhoy says: 31/05/2012 at 9:28 am Lest we forget in all the recent drama, a key revelation in the BBC documentary was that Souness received £30k. He in fact received much more in both cash terms and in the number of payments made. Maybe a journalist could ask, formerly media friendly and always available Souness, why he requested multiple loans from Rangers EBT scheme 10 years and more after he left their employment. The protocol is as follows 1 that an employee, or ex employee , has to request a loan, with a reason for the loan being required. 2 the employer has to pass that request to the trustees 3 the employer will deposit funds in a sub trust if the trustees approve the loan 4 the funds are drawn down by the employee, or ex employee, once a loan agreement has been reached The questions to be asked are 1 what was the reason for the loan. Was it almost as if a template was being used so that all loan requests were remarkably similar. Did everyone who was employed at Rangers really ALL need home improvement work 2 why would Rangers agree to pass on a request for a loan, knowing that 3 they would have to place funds into the sub trust to facilitate the loan. Now remember the loan is never paid back to Rangers , it is paid back to the trust……..except no loan ever has ever been repaid. Why would any business pay huge sums (£48million) into a trust if there was no business benefit to them. The name gives the clue as to how it’s supposed to work EMPLOYEE benefit trust. What was the business benefit that made Rangers and David Murray pay very large sums into a trust for the benefit of Souness? We have already had Billy Dodds extremely helpful explanation of how it worked for him. The business benefit for Rangers is that they could pay a contractual amount without paying PAYE and NI. Now of course that is an abuse and in large measure why HMRC found the EBT scheme was improperly operated and send in the BTC bill. But why pay Souness this way. He wasn’t an employee. He couldn’t have had a contract , as he was contracted to another professional football club at the time of his loans being approved. It is absolutely forbidden for individuals to have contracts in football with more than one club at a time. So if he wasn’t contracted he could not have been providing a legal service to Rangers, which should not in any case have been paid via an EBT So just what was the compelling request for loans (multiple) that enabled the trustees and Rangers to provide huge amounts of money to an individual who at the time was one of the highest paid individuals in the UK Remember the order in the protocol , request , pass on, approve , fund , agree, draw down. Why did David Murray agree to deposit huge amounts of money into a trust to benefit Souness ? What was the business benefit? What did a very wealthy non contracted individual , who hadn’t worked at the club for 10 years , do to justify this largesse ?

Yes it is. Associate member. Should I call you an arsepiece ?

So if your thesis is correct, we can expect Besiktas and Bursaspor to be taking UEFA to EU Courts after they were both given 1 year Euro bans today for 'financial impropriety' ?

FIFA Article 64 para 3 is the Rosetta Stone on this. FIFA / UEFA don't want football clubs reverting to Civil Courts. They should be going to CAS for appeals.

From RTC Blog (Doncaster Dooms The SPL-22/05/12) Doncaster is a key player in this dance. Therefore, I assume that he has been made aware of the Duff & Phelps plan. His interview this week was simply a crude attempt to blunt the impact of any accusations that might be contained within the BBC Scotland documentary to be aired on Wednesday night at 8pm. Either through an incredible degree of cynicism or playing the role of useful idiot, Doncaster’s cheer leading is key to a plan that will do more to destroy the Scottish Premier League than any loss of income from the temporary absence of a Rangers-type club could ever do. One must assume that Doncaster is actively delaying the report on the dual contracts. It would take less than twenty minutes for any lawyer to see that there is a prima facie case against Rangers FC. Demonstrating a prima facie does not require looking at every piece of evidence or even getting close to providing proof. It is literally a check that “on the face of it” there appears to be something behind the allegations. Doncaster denies that there is a “go slow” instruction on this investigation. In the fullness of time, it will become clear that something is amiss. The law firm of Harper McLeod have been hired by the SPL to investigate if a prima facie case against Rangers on the dual contract issue exists. Let me help Harper McLeod out a little. On 28 July 2001, Rangers played Aberdeen at Pittodrie. Rangers won the game 3-0. Making his league debut that day was a German who would later go on to become General Manager of Bayern Munich, Christian Nerlinger. He also scored one of the goals. That game against Aberdeen marked the first game where the EBT scheme that is the subject of the ‘Big Tax Case’ interfered with the Scottish Premier League. Harper McLeod should take a look at Nerlinger’s contract filed with the SFA. Next they should obtain Nerlinger’s contract documents and payment history from Rangers FC (IA)’s administrators. Comparing the contract to the payment history alone will expose payments of well in excess of £1 million that are not listed on his SFA-registered contract. There is your prima facie case, Mr. Doncaster. There is no need to investigate any further to demonstrate that Rangers have a case to answer and that an independent inquiry is required.

Is it this one ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPE-OxBcrsU&feature=endscreen&NR=1

If being fed by IV, the colostomy bag is not required. A catheter might be.

"According to details contained within proposals to place Rangers into a company voluntary arrangement (CVA), the administrative team has run up about £5.5m in fees for their work in compiling an exit from administration. However, as a supervisor of the CVA, the team is likely to add a further £6.2m, and another £6.2m as liquidator, to its tab. A CVA and liquidation process can run for several years, but no details have been provided within the proposals as to the estimated timescale for Rangers' CVA. The £5.5m fee for the administrators' work so far includes time costs and legal fees for several legal actions, including forcing ex-owner Craig Whyte's lawyers, Collyer Bristow, to hand over £3.9m and a separate legal action against them, which is due to finish later this year. The administrators also managed to convince bidder Sevco to transfer £200,000 for running costs in exchange for exclusivity rights to the club. Sevco, a consortium of investors fronted by Charles Green, are willing to advance Rangers £8.3m following CVA approval."

So this rotting carcass will still be having an effect on next season ? All the more reason for the SFA to pull the feckin' trigger NOW.

Not when you've got a list of creditors banging at the door, surely. (Not wishing to threadjack, but when this farrago is finally put to bed, is it not time someone looked at the laws regarding companies in administration because this whole thing is farcical.)

Yes, I saw that. 'In footballing terms' Hughie Green and his 'consortium' are intending to buy Rangers FC. They intend to continue as a football club. Hughie Green stated that Rangers 'would never be in debt again'. So why is he getting £100m worth of 'goods' for £5.5m ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uuqry9SMjQM

You do realise that 'Helen Runciman' is an anagram of 'Hvn Men In Clear' ?

This meeting bagan at 10am. It is one the most important meetings the SPL will ever convene, yet they adjourn after less than 2 hours ? It has got POSTPONEMENT written all over it, IMHO. (But will be delighted to be proven wrong.)

From BBC :- 1050: FOOTBALL Governing body Uefa suspends Turkish club Besiktas from all European competitions for one year following the Istanbul side's financial problems, Turkish media are reporting.