FIFA order SFA to get tough with Ibrox club over appeal panel D-Day

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The SFA have been told there will be trouble if their appeals tribunal fails to come down hard on Rangers this Friday.

 

All the panel have to consider is a punishment to replace the 12-month transfer embargo they originally issued after it was declared outwith their remit by Lord Glennieâ??s Court of Session ruling.

 

But SFA chief Stewart Regan, according to MailSport sources, has come under heavy pressure from FIFA to insist that the sanction now levied must be of equal or greater weight to the original.

 

That will be communicated to the panel and itâ??s also understood Gersâ?? owner-in-waiting Charles Green has already been made aware of the grave danger administrators Duff and Phelps have put the club in by taking the case to court.

 

FIFA take a dim view of clubs tackling their national associations in court and could even kick our sides out of Europe and Scotland out of the World Cup qualifiers if Gers arenâ??t punished appropriately.

 

MailSport also believes there will be no compromise agreement so Rangers will either have to accept the original verdict, which is now unlikely, or stand by the tribunalâ??s new ruling.

 

The Hampden hierarchy wonâ??t convene with all parties until Wednesday to discuss the case.

 

And itâ??s believed they have put their tribunal members on standby to clear their diaries for a Friday night session, with the Thursday expected to be too soon to sort the formalities.

 

The panel have yet to receive Glennieâ??s written judgment on the ban.

 

And with the extended Jubilee holidays bringing administration to a halt, the midweek meeting will be their first chance to discuss the format the appeal has to take.

 

Itâ??s believed the original three members of the appellate tribunal â?? Lord Carloway, Allan Cowan and Craig Graham â?? will all sit again, as per Glennieâ??s instructions.

 

However, itâ??s unclear whether Rangers will be invited to take part in proceedings, with the facts of the case already known and uncontested by their QC Richard Keen.

 

The difficulties facing the tribunal are

enormous. And despite Lord Glennie insisting they have to choose a sanction from the list in black and white in the SFA statutes, they still face several grey areas.

 

With a ban from the Scottish Cup the closest punishment on the â??lightâ? side of the embargo, and suspension from the SFA the next step up on the other, these are the two most likely outcomes.

 

However, the debate over what â??suspensionâ? constitutes is thought to be troubling the panel.

 

Up for consideration will be the time frame, and also whether suspension â?? while stopping them from playing friendlies or competitive games â?? would still allow Gers to sign and register players.

 

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But SFA chief Stewart Regan, according to MailSport sources, has come under heavy pressure from FIFA to insist that the sanction now levied must be of equal or greater weight to the original........

 

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I wonder how anyone can work out what is equal or what is greater than the original sanction? It's simply ridiculous.

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David Leggat has encapsulated the options that the panel can take and has pointed out that both the original panel and the apellate panel both deemed expulsion as too severe a punishment and so that option cannot be handed down.

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Taylor's attack on Rangers

 

DAVID Taylor, the joint general secretary of Uefa and former SFA chief executive, said last night the football world was united in condemning the actions of Rangers in going to the Court of Session to overturn the 12-month transfer embargo imposed on them by the SFA.

 

Lord Glennie accepted a petition from the Ibrox club's administrators for a judicial review on Tuesday, sparking the footballing version of a constitutional crisis and forcing the SFA to return the matter to the appellate tribunal chaired by Lord Carloway for an alternative sentence.

 

Specified punishments range from a fine of £100,000 to suspension from the Scottish Cup or suspension or termination of the club's SFA membership, and Taylor admitted Fifa and Uefa will take co-ordinated action to ensure one of their most sacrosanct principles – that clubs should appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport rather than take recourse to "ordinary courts" – is upheld.

 

Pointing out that he is not involved in Uefa's decision-making process on Rangers, the former Forfar lawyer said: "Football is almost united in saying it isn't the right approach to take to go to court to challenge the authority of the football association when there are other ways of resolving matters. Perhaps it is because the administrators are in charge and aren't familiar with these things, but I would have thought that advice should have been taken before this course of action was pursued."

 

Taylor said it was likely to be regarded more as a Fifa matter than a Uefa one. He added: "But without getting into areas of speculation, this is still entirely a matter for the Scottish FA. A national association is only the clubs, it isn't something separate. It is like being a member of a golf club or something like that. If you want to be a member of that club then you abide by the rules, or you will suffer sanctions."

 

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