Rangers appeal against transfer ban: REJECTED!

hughie?

fcuk the SFA

That is all

only for the being kenny.

How many titles have your team won?

we have won more euro trophies than you buncha cheatin tax dodgers.

Very upsetting words Kal. Takes me back to when I was in 4 years old at nursery.

* 4 years old at nursery.

Kenny - insulted by your comments
















It was Mad Dog 20/20


I thought Buckie yourself have been the drink of choice for you Kenny.

Not too far from yourself eh?

Were you proud of Neil Simpson ending Ian Durrants career?

I hear he still plays on that on his endless PR nights with the vermin scum that

I would hate to live where you live Kenny. Us city folk just laugh at you

OK BLAME THE HUNS. WHERE WILL IT GET YOU?

There is so much going on at Rangers just now that it is difficult to envisage where it is all going to end?
With the decision being upheld you would have to say that the evidence must be pretty damning against our club.
The Sir David Murray era and more recently Craig Whyte`s tenure has left the Rangers support in a very embarrassing situation.
I really think it would be best for us if the club just bit the bullet now and went down to Div 3.

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The Rogues Who Ruined Rangers
Posted by admin on 5/17/12 • Categorized as All Articles,Scottish Football with Billy Williamson



Imagine you are the financial controller of a multi-million pound corporation. You discover that your new boss might have forged tax invoices for payments that were never made. What do you do?

I’d like to think I’d call the cops. But if you’re Ken Olverman, the man in charge of counting the diminished pile of pennies at Ibrox, you’d do what your coffee mug says: Keep Calm and Carry On.

Olverman’s oversight is just one of many astonishing failures of leadership documented in the Scottish Football Association’s “Note of Reasons” – the report produced by the disciplinary tribunal which handed Rangers multiple fines and a 12-month transfer ban.

The sixty pages of the report detail how Sir David Murray was desperate to sell the club, how the entire board knew Whyte wasn’t the man to sell to, and how they were proven right by his actions post-takeover.

But not one of these experienced and highly-compensated executives spoke out. Some even encouraged the sale. So in no particular order, here is your parcel o’ rogues, bought and sold not with English gold, but with four years’ worth of season tickets, courtesy of Ticketus Ltd.

Rogue one: Donald Muir, Director.

Prior to the takeover, there was a “marked division of opinion” on the board about Whyte: “A number of directors remained extremely concerned and extremely sceptical about his good faith, status and standing… They had no evidence that he had sufficient funds to buy or run a football club such as Rangers FC.”

Crucially, “other directors took a less critical view.” Which other directors? Donald Muir, for one, who was on the board at the request of Lloyds Bank. ”Through Mr Muir, the Board of Directors had been made aware that Lloyds were extremely enthusiastic about the potential purchase by Mr Craig Whyte of the MIHL majority shareholding.”

Donald Muir was a director of Rangers, yet he was acting in the best interests of another company: Lloyds Bank. I’m a Rangers shareholder. I wonder if I can sue him?

Rogue two: Martin Bain, Director and Chief Operating Officer.

Bain commissioned a private investigation into Whyte and was “very concerned” at the findings: Whyte had a history of liquidating firms, though strangely it didn’t uncover Whyte’s seven-year director’s ban. So what did he do with this dynamite report? He showed it to his boss, despite “knowing Sir David Murray’s personal and individual approach to business matters he was apprehensive about raising his concerns with him and considered that there might be personal repercussions”. That’s a healthy relationship there, eh?

Murray told Bain to shut up and back the Whyte bid. Bain, in his one display of spine, declined to do so, and “from the time of that meeting … Mr Bain’s hitherto close relationship with Sir David Murray was damaged.”

But did he go public with his report, either directly or discreetly? No.

Rogue three: Alistair Johnston, Chairman.

Despite being “strongly opposed” to the Whyte sale – because he didn’t believe Whyte had any cash – what did the chairman of the board do? He “continued to engage in discussions with Mr Craig Whyte aimed at enhancing the terms of the share purchase agreement.” What he did NOT do was “raise or successfully maintain any substantial level of resistance nor public awareness of their very real concerns.”

Sure, when the BBC cameras were rolling months after the takeover, Johnston was happy to talk. Too little, too late.

Rogue four: Ken Olverman, financial controller of Rangers FC plc.

In August 2011, Olverman was contacted by HMRC, who were verifying invoices provided to them by Ticketus showing large amounts of VAT paid by Rangers. Olverman had no knowledge of these VAT payments, and when he saw the invoices “he was of the view that it appeared as though ‘Clip Art’ computer processes had been involved in their creation… Having sight of the invoices confirmed his view even further that they had not been created within the finance office of Rangers FC.”

That would worry me, untrained in the arts of financial control. So what did Olverman, a member of the august Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland do? Nothing: “He did not inform any of the current directors of Rangers FC of the matter.”

The rogues register is longer still, and of course Sir David Murray and Craig Whyte are the prime scoundrels in this sorry tale.

But reading through the tribunal’s report, seeing that even Greatest Living Ranger John Greig could and should have done so much more to raise the alarm, it’s clear that one group that could have made a difference were kept in the dark about all the dirty details. A group of people who do have the club’s best interests at heart: the fans.

You might not care about Rangers, and that’s fair enough. But if nothing changes, next time the rogues might ruin your club.

– Billy Williamson.

mack -"With the decision being upheld you would have to say that the evidence must be pretty damning against our club."

Too bl00dy right it is
Expulsion was a possibility, you got off lightly but the arrogance of der hun is staggering, not a whiff of contrition or hands being held up to the irrefutable evidence stacked up against them, instead we get - "we arra peepil! those taigs huv goat it in fur us!"
Utterly mind blowing stupidity

I've yet to hear any reason why this is unfair on Rangers. There reasoning seem to be one of the following pish reasons

1/ It' Celtics fault
2/ It's Whyte's fault.
3/ Rangers are Scottish football and shouldn't be punished.
4/ What have we done that others like Motherwell haven't done and they got no punsihment?

To quote Elton "sorry seems to be the hardest word".

Looking at Lennons bitter,tw3isted,surly face would be anybodys worst nightmare.

"The appeal meeting will come to order.
Please rise for the learned Judge Carloway.
Please be seated."

Judge Carloway: "Will the counsel for the defence state the grounds for the appeal?"

Richard Keene QC: "We arra peepil yir honour!"

Judge Carloway: "Appeal dismissed."

serious question  here... John boyle owner of motherwell 2002 cant pay debts including HMRC club enters administration stayed in a CVA for 2 years eventually gains control of motherwell after most debts are cleared in the CVA , is now doing a share issue and selling his shares over to the fans ..10 YEARS LATER... WHY NO OUT CRY OVER THIS GUY  ,

They play the USA in 9 days , and they are still in the SPL that is the reality of it

record this for posterity:

i agree with feck

The Brave ( in internet land )

you have avoided the question let me ask again ... how do you feel about John Boyle and Motherwell spending obove their means , using a CVA to avoid paying their debts , was it ok for them not to pay their debts because rules were not in place ?

did sporting integrity only pop up its ugly head up after the 2004 did the SPL invent sporting integrity ?

When Gretna won their league titles by spending above their means was their any outcry to have history changed and have them removed from the history books ?

Hi Skullery

Given everything that is going down with the Rangers atm. Livingston are quite within their rights to complain to the governing bodies.
It`s no surprise though as their chairman is renowned as a very clever man.
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Livid Livingston threaten to sue the SFA over Rangers punishment
By JOHN MCGARRY
PUBLISHED: 01:04, 16 May 2012 | UPDATED: 01:05, 16 May 2012
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Livingston plan to sue the SFA for up to £1.2million in lost revenue if Rangers are given a lesser punishment to the one they received for entering administration three years ago.
The West Lothian club were relegated from the First to the Third Division by the Scottish Football League in 2009 for breaching insolvency rules.
The club’s appeal to the SFA was rejected, meaning they had to work their way up the divisions with back-to-back promotions.
A consortium led by former Cowdenbeath chairman Gordon McDougall bought the club from disgraced Italian Angelo Massone — only to be thrown to the bottom tier of the senior game the following week.
McDougall has been outspoken in his criticism of the decision to demote Livingston and has already claimed Scottish football will be ‘tarnished’ if Rangers are allowed to start afresh in the SPL as a newco, should attempts to secure a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) fail.
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Livid Livingston threaten to sue the SFA over Rangers punishment
By JOHN MCGARRY
PUBLISHED: 01:04, 16 May 2012
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Livingston plan to sue the SFA for up to £1.2million in lost revenue if Rangers are given a lesser punishment to the one they received for entering administration three years ago.
The West Lothian club were relegated from the First to the Third Division by the Scottish Football League in 2009 for breaching insolvency rules.
The club’s appeal to the SFA was rejected, meaning they had to work their way up the divisions with back-to-back promotions.
A consortium led by former Cowdenbeath chairman Gordon McDougall bought the club from disgraced Italian Angelo Massone — only to be thrown to the bottom tier of the senior game the following week.
McDougall has been outspoken in his criticism of the decision to demote Livingston and has already claimed Scottish football will be ‘tarnished’ if Rangers are allowed to start afresh in the SPL as a newco, should attempts to secure a Company Voluntary Arrangement (CVA) fail.

Dark clouds: Livingston have threatened to sue the SFA
It is understood Livingston wrote to the SFA last week seeking ‘clarity’ on their handling of the Rangers financial crisis and have warned they view their own treatment as a precedent.
The First Division club are expected to ask questions of the governing body if the Old Firm giants are not dealt with in the same manner and could take legal action to recover loss of income.
Both Livingston and the SFA refused to comment on the letter.
The 12 SPL clubs will meet again on May 30 to consider proposals for dealing with newco scenarios.
Two seasons of 10-point deductions and a reduction of commercial revenue for three years are among the possible sanctions.

Prospective new Rangers owner Charles Green’s preference for exiting administration is through a CVA. But, if he fails to persuade 75 per cent of creditors to vote for his proposal, he would then turn to a newco option.
Meanwhile, one of the country’s leading legal figures will spearhead Rangers’ appeal against a season-long transfer embargo.
Mr Richard Keen QC has been hired to fight the Ibrox club’s corner after a Judicial Panel took the action for ‘bringing the game into disrepute’ at a hearing last month.
Sitting on the appeals panel are Lord Carloway, Spartans chairman Craig Graham  and former Partick Thistle chairman Allan Cowan.

ps how can Rangers buy players when they have still not paid for the players in their team ie Lee Wallace ?

If I bought a car for 10k from arnold clark and then stopped making payments then my car is taken away and given back to arnold clark ffs

pps can we have Lee Wallace back please