Ralph Topping resigns from SFA commitments...

[biggordy 0]

Maybe a bit melodramatic but could this be Liewells way of attempting to move to the EPL?,destroy Scottish football and be left with fuck all to compete with!.

I've thought this whenever logic left the sfa's thinking and several members of the "family" emerged in places of influence..

Well, let's face it, Regan is either a total incompetent or has been charged with dismantling Scottish Football.

[GovanAllan 0]

Maybe a bit melodramatic but could this be Liewells way of attempting to move to the EPL?,destroy Scottish football and be left with fuck all to compete with!.

My thinking as well it's the only way UEFA might let them move, all we've done is speed up the process for them.

[ian1964 10,870]

Leggat:

 

 

CELTIC are lining up another secret power grab at the very top of the Scottish Football Association.

 

 

And if the Parkhead powerbrokers pull off their behind closed doors wheeling and dealing it will mean a promotion to a seat on the all powerful elite SFA MAIN BOARD for Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell..

 

 

With Lawwell’s place on the Scottish Football Association’s Professional Game Board being filled by Celtic’s £250,000-a-year financial director, Eric Riley, who is already a powerful man, sitting, as he does, on the Scottish Premier League Board.

 

 

The latest murky manoeuvres have been sparked by the resignation of the Scottish Premier League’s highly paid executive chairman, Ralph Topping, from both the Pro Game and Main Board, of the Scottish Football Association.

 

 

The controversial Topping claims he is stepping aside because of work commitments.

 

 

But by stepping down, SPL executive chairman Topping keeps his big salary from the SPL and also opens the way for Celtic to grab and even tighter iron grip of power at the pinnacle of the game’s governing body, with Lawwell set to be invited into the inner sanctum.

 

 

It has always been usual for any club director who is an SFA member to work his way through the system, learning the ropes, before starting off on a slow steady climb to the upper echelons of power within the Scottish Football Association.

 

 

These rules do NOT apply to Lawwell

 

 

For since Peter Lawwell’s pal, SFA chief executive Stewart Regan, bulldozed his reforms through, things have changed. And the big beneficiary of Regan’s revolution has been Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell.

 

 

Just twelve MONTHS ago, Lawwell was not even a member of the Scottish Football Association. Now he is on the brink of moving onto the SEVEN man elite Main Board.

 

 

And that means he is closing in on the top job.

 

 

For even though Alan McCrae is the vice president and should succeed to the presidency, I believe that things might change again.

 

 

I believe there may be another rules switch to benefit Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell and his bid for control of football in Scotland. Alongside his good old pal, Stewart Regan.

 

 

If Lawwell is promoted to the all powerful elite Main Board after less than a year on the highly influential Professional Game Board, he will surely be on the fast track to short circuit the system again.

 

 

PETER LAWWELL WILL BE PRESIDENT OF THE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL ASSOCIATION WITHIN TWO YEARS!

 

 

That is my confident prediction. And my warning to the present president, the gentlemanly Campbell Ogilvie and his vice president McCrae, is simply this….

 

 

WATCH YOUR BACKS!

 

 

Lawwell gate crashed the Hampden boardroom less than a year ago. It was, claimed his best buddy in football, Regan had nothing to do with that meteoric rise.

 

 

Lawwell, according to the Parkhead supremo’s comrade-in-arms,Stewart Regan, had been sent to the SFA Professional Game Board by the Scottish Premier League as their representative.

 

 

The questions which have never answered with clarity is, why did the SPL chose Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell to represent them in the Hampden boardroom?

 

 

And why was Celtic financial director, Eric Riley ,then parachuted into the Scottish Premier League board of directors?

 

 

With Celtic director, Riley now set to keep that powerful post on the SPL, as well as stepping up to fill the seat on the SFA’s influential Pro Game Board, vacated by Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell if he moves up to extend Celtic’s grip on decision making to the all powerful elite Main Board of the SFA.

 

 

It seems that every other word used when describing the positions of power and the men who hold them within the Scottish Football Association and the Scottish Premier League is ….

 

 

CELTIC!

 

 

And the one thing football fans CANNOT expect to be told is what is going on behind the closed doors of the SPL and the SFA.

 

 

WHY?

 

 

Because so many newspapers – the Daily Mail, the Sunday Mail, the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday in particular – are the new guardians of SECRECY, the new CENSORS!

 

 

They do not believe football supporters – their readers – have the right to know how decisions made behind closed doors are reached. They do not believe football supporters – their readers – have the right to know who makes these decisions.

 

 

At least the Scotsman carried the news about Topping standing down. Though I suspect the Scotsman Publications Pair, Glenn Gibbons and Tom English, would have preferred to have kept it under wraps.

 

 

At least until Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell was safely seated next to his pal, Stewart Regan the next time the Scottish Football Association’s all powerful elite Main Board meets.

 

 

And until Celtic director, Eric Riley can cosy up to Regan in the Hampden boardroom the next time the influential SFA Pro Game Board meets. No doubt, Riley having come hot foot from wielding power as Celtic’s man on the SPL at one of their board meetings.