ian1964 10,626 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 IT is hard to imagine there is anyone out there who actually thinks that Scottish Football Association chief executive Stuart Regan is trying to help Rangers. Being vindictive towards the Ibrox club, is more like what many may be saying. Certainly, according to the impression those from the Rangers Fans Working Group said they gained from a meeting with Regan, he heads an organisation which seems strangely disconnected from reality. They were particularly upset when Regan, as he so often does on Twitter, reacted in what looked like a high handed manner when quizzed about just what the SFA is doing to help Rangers. On Twitter he blocks people and at Hampden he walked out of the meeting with the Rangers Fans Working Group. In the past, a top QC and a leading Member of Parliament have addressed this Group without any problem. No wonder so many people see the relationship between the SFA chief executive, Stewart Regan and the Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell, fellow SFA directors in the Hampden boardroom, as far too close. Dangerously so, according to some. And the perception certainly lends itself to that view. Why, Reganâ??s pal Lawwell, was even stalking the SFA corridors of power on the sixth floor at Hampden on Thursday afternoon at the same time as the SFA Judicial Panel was sitting on seven charges â?? two against Craig Whyte and seven against Rangers . He was, we were told, attending a meeting of the SFA Professional Game Board, along with his good buddy and fellow Hampden director, Stuart Regan. The timing must have been a coincidence. There are an awful lot of coincidences inside Hampden these days. And perplexing puzzles too. One of the Reganâ??s riddles, which is hard to work out, especially if you use logic, common sense, a sense of fair play and a sense of justice, is just why Rangers are facing these charges. And how can Whyte also face charges. After all, the SFA have already ruled that Craig Whyte is not a fit and proper person to hold office with a member club. That does not stop him being the owner, it just prevents him from being a director and therefore responsible to the SFA. So what sanctions can Regan and Lawwellâ??s SFA take against a man who they have firmly ruled can play no active role of governance in any member club? No, the answer to that â??un escapes me too. And what about the eventual Regan decision that Whyte is not a fit and proper person? A decision reached only after Rangers went into administration and more than NINE months after the SFA allowed Whyte to become Rangers chairman. How can Rangers be held accountable for him not being a fit and proper person? Former director Alastair Johnston went public with a warning about trickster Whyte. Former director Paul Murray went public with a warning about huckster Whyte. Former chief executive Martin Bain went public with a warning about conman Whyte. And they were all booted out of the boardroom by Whyte. For as the owner of 85.3per cent of the clubâ??s shares, Craig Whyte was more than just the Rangers owner. During those months Craig Whyte WAS Rangers! But that was only because Regan and all his best buddies at the Scottish Football Association FAILED utterly in their duty of care towards a member club. A club which has been a member of the SFA for 140 years and which has provided more players to the national team than any other and which now finds itself in this mess because, in part, Regan did NOT do his job. Why did Regan not take action after Alastair Johnston, Paul Murray and Martin Bain issued their clarion call to action to the SFA? Wasnâ??t he listening? Too busy blethering with his buddy Peter Lawwell? Now he wants to punish Rangers for the fact that the Regan-Lawwell Scottish Football Association has once again been proved to be not fit for purpose. He wants Rangers, the victims of the Whyte con, to be victims again. This time of the Regan-Lawwell SFA. Natural justice and the Regan-Lawwell axis in the Scottish Football Association most certainly do not appear to be natural bedfellows. Nor does the Regan-Lawwell SFA appear to be on nodding terms with logic. The sound, sensible, entirely just and apparently honest way for Regan to act now, would be to admit that conman Craig Whyte is now outwith the Scottish Football Associationâ??s jurisdiction. Which he clearly is. And for the SFA to add that all the breaches of the SFA regulations which Rangers stand accused of, occurred during the time when Whyte, a man deemed not fit and proper to be a director, ruled a boardroom of his appointed puppets, as chairman. Of course that will NOT happen. It will not happen because the Scottish Football Association, in the view of many, far from wanting to try to help Rangers, not only appear to be being obstructive, but actually, in the eyes of many, are being VINDICTIVE towards Rangers. http://leggoland2.blogspot.co.uk/2012/03/regans-sfa-seems-set-against-helping.html 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest superrcooper7 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 Another excellent read. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juancornetto 1 Posted March 31, 2012 Share Posted March 31, 2012 SFA = Stupid Fucking Arseholes 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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