BBC Scotland report NO titles to be stripped but are fined £250K

[Mountain Bear 0]

Dear Celtic,

 

Thank you for your continued interest in our Club, but who exactly appointed you as the spokesbody for "much of Scottish football"?

 

Also, as the EBT's were ruled to be legitimate, please can you explain exactly what sporting advantage you think we got from not disclosing them?

 

Cheers.

 

Jim Traynor

[GovanAllan 0]

The thing is nobody has ever said EBT's are illegal, it was simply the way Rangers worked them that HMRC attacked and were proved wrong.

 

But again don't let the facts get in the way of the deluded.

[Scott7 6,002]

celtic really are a dastardly institution.

 

We should never play another match against them.

[bluebear54 0]

Totally agree that over recent years, Celtic have stealthily made themselves the oracle and spokesman for Scottish football. Their statement and their manager's statement defies belief, but clarifies a lot. I'm in total agreement that we now get to the bottom of few things. The five way agreement, who were actually driving the decisions at the SPL and the SFA, who made the decisions about the transfer fees and the withheld prize money. Because, if the shoe was on the other foot, by God, we'd never hear the end of it. This is an opportunity to highlight a few pertinent facts to the world. What has been attempted has been one of the most disgraceful episodes in sporting history. i personally want to see all those responsible hung out to dry.

[Steve1872 4]

SFA chief executive Stewart Regan has claimed any continuing debate over the Rangers payments issue would cause 'collateral damage' to the game.

Speaking in Edinburgh today, Regan urged Scottish football to draw a line under the last 12 months and move on.

The independent commission chaired by Lord Nimmo Smith this week fined the old company £250,000, but decided not to strip the club of any titles.

He said: "Now is a very good time for all parties to draw a line under what's gone on in last 12 months.

"It's crucial with league reconstruction being such an important issue that we draw a line under what's happened and seek to work collaboratively.

"If we spent as much time focusing on building and growing the game on the pitch as we do talking about conspiracy theories, exit strategies and matters off the field, I think we would be world class.

"We have to avoid the rest of the game becoming collaterally damaged. It's not about trying to find scapegoats for what's happened."

Regan also defended Scottish Football Association president Campbell Ogilvie's role during his time as company secretary at Rangers when some undisclosed payments were made.

He said Ogilvie had been totally open about his role at Rangers, adding: "Campbell Ogilvie played no part in the management and organisation of any element of the Murray group remuneration trust.

"He has been transparent and up front and he was the only member of the old [Rangers] regime who put himself forward to be interviewed by Lord Nimmo Smith and that says a lot about the man."

Regan insisted no deal had been done with Rangers to stop the club being stripped of their titles, but that the possibility of it happening had been mentioned to the new owners.

He said: "When the consortium approached the SFA and were interested in buying Rangers FC they asked for an outline of what were the worst possible punishments.

"The reason they wanted the information is they had investors who wanted to know exactly what the implications were, so what came on to the table was literally every possible sanction and issue."

[kuznetsov 0]

o'regan is going nowhere. he wants to forgive, forget and move on. the man is delusional but untouchable none the less.

[RANGERRAB 3,653]

SFA chief executive Stewart Regan has claimed any continuing debate over the Rangers payments issue would cause 'collateral damage' to the game.

Speaking in Edinburgh today, Regan urged Scottish football to draw a line under the last 12 months and move on.

The independent commission chaired by Lord Nimmo Smith this week fined the old company £250,000, but decided not to strip the club of any titles.

He said: "Now is a very good time for all parties to draw a line under what's gone on in last 12 months.

"It's crucial with league reconstruction being such an important issue that we draw a line under what's happened and seek to work collaboratively.

"If we spent as much time focusing on building and growing the game on the pitch as we do talking about conspiracy theories, exit strategies and matters off the field, I think we would be world class.

"We have to avoid the rest of the game becoming collaterally damaged. It's not about trying to find scapegoats for what's happened."

Regan also defended Scottish Football Association president Campbell Ogilvie's role during his time as company secretary at Rangers when some undisclosed payments were made.

He said Ogilvie had been totally open about his role at Rangers, adding: "Campbell Ogilvie played no part in the management and organisation of any element of the Murray group remuneration trust.

"He has been transparent and up front and he was the only member of the old [Rangers] regime who put himself forward to be interviewed by Lord Nimmo Smith and that says a lot about the man."

Regan insisted no deal had been done with Rangers to stop the club being stripped of their titles, but that the possibility of it happening had been mentioned to the new owners.

He said: "When the consortium approached the SFA and were interested in buying Rangers FC they asked for an outline of what were the worst possible punishments.

"The reason they wanted the information is they had investors who wanted to know exactly what the implications were, so what came on to the table was literally every possible sanction and issue."

 

is Regan havin' a laugh ? him & his cohorts put their 5 way agreement to CG in which we were to give up 5 titles in order to put us into SFL1. i'm sure many of us want to know the names of everyone who was behind this and their reasons for doing so. Think we could probably guess most already but confirmation would be good.