Steve1872 4 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Rangers Supporters @RangersFCTrust 1m1 minute ago Definitely didn't see this coming... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,761 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 So!,is it safe to say that any new chairman of any other club will have to go through the same rigorous FAPP "test" as the Rangers chairman?. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 At least he agreed. I agreed with the comment "Plus one on here!! " 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Real PapaBear 0 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 BBC, Bomber answers English and Spence, 10 mins in. http://aod-pod-uk-live.edgesuite.net/mpg_mp3_med/2c97c5944cfb7a51014d6d7d16e0247e--audio--sportsound-podcast-19-may-2015_mpg_mp3_med.mp3?__gda__=1432086027_c85145cf72903a4584a6bf57256b8f4c Luv The Bomber! Left these muppets without a name. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrahimHemdani 1 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 So!,is it safe to say that any new chairman of any other club will have to go through the same rigorous FAPP "test" as the Rangers chairman?. Following the submission of an amendment to its Official Return by Rangers Football Club, the Board of the Scottish FA has considered the Fit and Proper status of Mr Dave King as a director of the club in respect of Article 10.2 of the Articles of Association. The Club did that because they knew there was an issue; other Clubs could do that or wait for the SFA to investigate their Annual Return. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,761 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 Rangers Supporters @RangersFCTrust 1m1 minute agoDefinitely didn't see this coming... Is anyone genuinely surprised that, in their fearful wisdom, the SFA has decreed Dave King to be "fit and proper" to become the chairman of Rangers? I have to admit, I don't know one such person. It has seemed a stick-on for months that Scottish football's governing body would "pass" King fit, controversial or not. In one sense it has been an academic exercise. King has taken control of Rangers and, fit or not in the eyes of the SFA, nothing was going to change that. King was going to wield his Rangers power, either inside the boardroom or outside its door. In this context, it is time to crack on. Let's see what King can now do at Rangers. But not before we can examine just how laughable this SFA decision is about him. There have been two parts to this King debate. The first has been what you might call the bleedin' obvious part. The second has been the area of intense legal dispute. King, for many, blatantly failed the SFA's own rules about reputable characters coming in to Scottish football. By reputable, the SFA meant a red flag over anyone who, say, has a recent court conviction for tax evading, or had been a director of a football club which had undergone insolvency within the last five years. You can read the SFA's slightly laborious Article 10 if you like. It does not cite these various misdemeanours for fun, or for their appeal. On the contrary, the SFA cites them because it wants to guard against such characters invading the Scottish game. It won't do here to wade back through Dave King's 41 guilty counts in a South African high court in 2013. Everyone knows about them. On the surface King blatantly fails the SFA's fit and proper process. But there is a further aspect to this. These days everything - absolutely everything - is up for legal challenge. Every single moral bar can be turned on its head in a court of law. In this context, nothing is cut and dried. In recent weeks there has been endless legal counsel and trading going on, both on the SFA side and the King side, as this fit and proper decision has been reached. This is the main reason why the ruling has dragged on so long. It doesn't matter what appeared to be the case on the surface, or how ludicrously some of us viewed King's failure in terms of the SFA's Article 10. The point is, the SFA had to be absolutely sure their decision was legally watertight. And these days next to no-one knows - not even prime ministers - what a legally watertight position is. The SFA have been fearful of Dave King. Giving him fit and proper status is the easiest way out. It cuts out further months of potential acrimony and legal jousting, by just giving him his seat on the Rangers board. The SFA will be damaged, and maybe even tarnished, by this King decision. It will seem laughable and deplorable in equal measure to many Scottish football fans up and down the country. Supporters outwith the Rangers legions will no longer trust the SFA. They will view the organisation, instead, as supine, weak-willed, fearful and capitulating. This King issue was a test-case for the SFA's reputation, and I don't think it has come out of it at all well. The governing body will be disparaged over it. All of that being said, it really is time to crack on. There can be an unhealthy fascination with things Rangers by supporters of other clubs, and this King case for some has been just such an episode. Rangers FC - "old" or "new", whatever your take - has gravely suffered. Never in anyone's wildest dreams was it imagined that the club would be liquidated. But it was, in 2012. The pain and anger from that event still linger. The disputes about "Rangers", the club's history and all the rest of it, have been poisonous. To be abject about this, those who had always detested Rangers have surely had their fill. Personally, I am all for Rangers FC moving on, being strengthened, being made healthy, and competing at the highest level in Scottish football. I believe it will enhance the game that we love in this country. King is the latest to try to make that happen. He is here, at Ibrox, and no SFA fit and proper farce is going to change that. Whatever your view of this King decision - and I find it ridiculous - it is time now to let him get to work, and let him be judged by what he can or cannot do for Rangers. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheWee BlueDevil 0 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 (edited) Rangers Supporters @RangersFCTrust 1m1 minute agoDefinitely didn't see this coming... [/font][/color] If the halfwit clown Spiers is unhappy then all is well! Edited May 19, 2015 by TheWee BlueDevil 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,761 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 The Club did that because they knew there was an issue; other Clubs could do that or wait for the SFA to investigate their Annual Return. It's just a pity every chairman of every club is not scrutinised as much as DK 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,761 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 The one thing we can be sure of is that the SFA(Lieswell) would have taken legal advice before coming to their decision,yet the BHEASTS are claiming it illegal.................. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
der Berliner 3,803 Posted May 19, 2015 Share Posted May 19, 2015 You would simply hope that both club and King take note about Spiers scribblings. He and a few others should be banned from Ibrox and Auchenhowie for good. No ifs and buts. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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