Confirmed! Dave King passed as 'fit and proper' by SFA

[Bluedell 5,679]

Yeah I accept it's 'part of business' for some people, but not all. I'd also say there's a line between aggressive tax planning and breaking the law and King did the latter. That's not a matter of opinion. Whether he did it deliberately or not I've no way of knowing, but he did it and it reflects badly on him now.

Knowing where the line is may not always that obvious and the time that the case took to conclude suggests that it was not that clear cut. The final decision may have been some sort of compromise that allowed both parties to move on.

 

 

 

Here's my problem with King, he put a lot of money into the club and yet we're being told he had no say in how the club was run. Now he was either quite naive when he invested or that's not the truth. Either scenario doesn't paint him in a great light from a business perspective. If you're going to put £20 million into a business you'd want some say in how it was run, no?

We obviously don't know what King did or didn't want. I can't believe he would have been that naïve not to realise that Murray would continue to have the final say given the relative shareholding.

 

He did get shafted a bit by Murray (like other such as Enic and NTL) when Murray remerged Rangers into MIH, although Murray did ultimately correct that, and perhaps that's naivety but you live and learn and given his apparent commercial successes in SA he can't be that bad a businessman.

 

I fully accept he wasn't involved with Whyte on an executive level but he should have distanced himself from what was happening. If he was being misled by Whyte, and many people clearly were, then you'd have hoped alarm bells might have rung a bit earlier than they did. He was on the inside and we weren't after all.

I'm sure that the alarm bells did ring very early but what could he do about it and how wold he distance himself? Speak out and get sacked and be outside? Resign and be on the outside? He had limited options.

[ian1964 10,761]

Did Scottish FA break own rules during process of granting new Rangers chairman Dave King fit-and-proper status?

 

Rangers chairman Dave King was awarded fit-and-proper status this week

Eight members of the SFA board made the final decision on Tuesday

Sportsmail has learned of surprise and concern among members of the 11-man Professional Game Board over their exclusion from decision

 

By Stephen Mcgowan For The Scottish Daily Mail

 

The Scottish FA were last night facing fresh questions over the process which ended in Dave King being granted fit-and-proper status.

 

The new Rangers chairman was given the green light on Tuesday by the eight-man full SFA board following a protracted debate over his South African tax convictions and his presence on the Ibrox board when the club suffered an insolvency event in 2012.

 

Sportsmail has learned, however, of surprise and concern among some members of the SFA’s 11-man Professional Game Board over their exclusion from the final discussion and decision on the matter.

 

The PGB last met three weeks ago, on April 30, when they granted interim Rangers chairman Paul Murray the all-clear on his own fit-and-proper status. In the aftermath of the Murray vote, PGB members expected to be summoned for a final King ruling.

 

This week’s SFA statement confirmed, however, that the decision over the South African businessman was actually taken only by the eight-man SFA board despite SFA Board Protocols section 3.15 (iv) stating that responsibility for ‘approving persons to hold position within Association Football’ lies with the PGB.

 

In exceptional circumstances article 64.1 of the SFA rulebook says the full Board: ‘shall at any time be entitled to exercise its powers in relation to areas of responsibility... like matters considered and determined by the Professional Game Board.’

 

However Sportsmail understands that, after ruling on Murray, members of the PGB now want clarification on why they were excluded from voting on King.

 

The current PGB consists of Rod Petrie (Hibs), Neil Doncaster (SPFL), Ralph Topping (SPFL), Peter Lawwell (Celtic), Duncan Fraser (Aberdeen), Mike Mulraney (Alloa), Sandy Stables (Highland League), Andrew Waddell (Lowland League), Stewart Regan (SFA chief executive), Campbell Ogilvie (SFA President) and Alan McRae (first vice-president of the SFA).

 

The main SFA board consists of Regan, Ogilvie, McRae, Petrie, Barrie Jackson, the independent non-executive director, Peter Lawwell, Ralph Topping and Tom Johnston of the Junior FA.

 

The statement confirming King had been given the green light referred only to the ‘Board of the Scottish FA’ with the key passage reading: ‘Having considered all submissions received from Mr King and the club in respect of this matter the Scottish FA Board granted an approval, conditional upon further submissions from Mr King in respect of documented agreements with the appropriate authorities in South Africa.’

 

In contrast Murray was passed by the PGB, a statement last month confirming: ‘The Scottish FA can confirm at a meeting of the Professional Game Board (PGB) on Thursday, 30th April, consideration was given to the fit and proper status of Mr Paul Murray as a director of Rangers Football Club.

 

‘Having considered the documentation provided and taking into account Mr Murray’ s detailed personal submission before it, the PGB is satisfied that Mr Murray is fit and proper in terms of Article 10.2.’

 

There is no suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of Rangers or Dave King.

 

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-3093620/Did-Scottish-FA-break-rules-process-granting-new-Rangers-chairman-Dave-King-fit-proper-status.html#ixzz3ax1UiXy8

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[Scott7 6,158]

Which members are bleating, I wonder.

[colinstein 294]

the PGB members who aren't on the SFA main board. Fraser, Mullaney, Stables, Waddell and McRae. I would think.

Edited May 23, 2015 by colinstein