{"id":11551,"date":"2017-06-08T09:18:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:18:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=11551"},"modified":"2017-06-08T09:18:40","modified_gmt":"2017-06-08T08:18:40","slug":"celtic-diary-thursday-june-8-so-mr-regan-address-this-if-you-will","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=11551","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday June 8: So, Mr Regan, Address This, If You Will"},"content":{"rendered":"

In typical fashion, the establishment has conspired to provide a deflection in the form of a general election just as more revelations were appearing about the misconduct of the SFA and the unhealthy hold Dave King seems to have over Scottish football. ( Nurse-he’s fallen out of bed again-Ed ).<\/p>\n

Incidentally, the wife misheard me this morning when I said there was an election today, and I’m not entirely happy that she seemed relieved to be corrected.<\/p>\n

Within a few hours of asking whether or not Rangers had committed fraud, Stewart Regan had contacted the papers.. and claimed he and his chums at Hampden had done nothing wrong in granting a licence to compete in Europe in 2011.<\/p>\n

And he went further…<\/p>\n

\u201cWe all know if there are any further challenges to the processes which have taken place we will address those as and when they come forward.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cI am not concerned by that at all, because we know we have followed every process that we had to follow in line with the guidance from UEFA and in line with the information we received by the key deadlines established.<\/em><\/p>\n

There was a challenge in yesterdays diary. There will be further challenges. You’ll be surprised to learn that he hasn’t addressed it.<\/p>\n

But hey!<\/p>\n

It’s still early.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have nothing to fear. No issues in terms of the decisions that the Scottish FA made.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Again, I refer you to the “wee tax case “…the bill that had crystallised that Regan said hadn’t.<\/p>\n

The one referred to in court during the Whyte showtrial.<\/p>\n

Would he care, just to be going on with, to tell us if he knew it had crystallised ?<\/p>\n

Would he care to tell us if he even knew of its existence, and if he did, could he explain why he didn’t check if it had crystallised ?<\/p>\n

Would he perhaps, just while we are on the subject clarify if he chose to believe what Rangers told him about it, or if they just didn’t tell him ?<\/p>\n

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Oops…<\/p>\n

You know, maybe we should just ask him this…<\/p>\n

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@<\/s>stewartmregan<\/b><\/a> You have been dismissive of our concerns about RFC 2011 UEFA license. Do we need a judicial review to get the facts? \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Or perhaps this one ..<\/p>\n

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Emelia Moray<\/strong>\u200f\u00a0<\/span><\/span>@EmeliaMorayx<\/b><\/span><\/a> 16h<\/span>16 hours ago<\/span><\/a><\/small><\/p>\n

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@<\/s>scottishfa<\/b><\/a> does this bring t\/ game into disrepute,buying ‘stolen’ personal information on #<\/s>SFA<\/b><\/a> member How can you excuse this?<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

I’m sure , given that he wants to address any challenges, he’s all ready to engage in open and frank discussion , just to clear everything up.<\/p>\n

Or perhspd he could explain, in simple terms , why King, Murray and now Johnston are allowed anywhere near Scottish football, when its becoming apparent they are leading a second Ibrox entity into the abyss.<\/p>\n

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The wee tax case seems to have been the subject of an attempt to airbrush it from history. Maybe thats due to it being the smoking gun that points directly at the misgovernace , malpractice or the downright cheating that seems to have taken place within the walls of Hampden when it became apparent that Rangers needed European money to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n

In actual fact, such were the debts that came to light as the club slid into liquidation, that extra money probably wouldn’t have made that much difference in the long run.<\/p>\n

They were going under, the European money would have just let them wave their arms about for a bit longer.<\/p>\n

And now that they have gone down, perhaps Regan could also explain a blatant abuse of advertising and trading rules…<\/p>\n

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Anyway, I’m sure one or two of our intrepid hacks are already on the trail….<\/p>\n

For instance, yesterday, it was revealed that Dave King had paid thousands of pounds for the hacked emails that became known as the Charlotte Fakes..the SMSM scooping the story a mere twelve months after John James had told everyone else on his weblog.<\/p>\n

With the SMSM setting such a frightening pace with their revelations, it looks like I’ll need to get one of my grandchildren to drop a wee note off by my headstone to tell me we were right-the SFA were at it.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, Neil Doncaster has spoken out as well, reassuring the public that a person like Craig Whyte will never be allowed in Scottish football again, (according to the headline ) even though I’m sure a court recently ruled he was innocent…<\/p>\n

\u201cThe rules within the SPFL were changed dramatically in the aftermath of what happened with Rangers in terms of taxes being paid and players being paid on time.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cMaking any predictions about the future is fraught. If anybody had predicted what was going to happen in the past five years they would have been laughed out of town.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cWe are in a new place now with Rangers back in the Premiership and we also look forward to a top flight with the return of Hibs making it as competitive as it has been for a while.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Return of Rangers-return of Hibs? Surely he cannot be drawing on this as an example of two similar cases ?<\/p>\n

Then he harped on for a bit about cross border football and the Atlantic league, forgetting that no other association would come anywhere near the SFA\/SPFL as they like to run their own game honestly and transparently.<\/p>\n

He didn’t actually appear to say he wouldn’t be letting in shysters who would ruin a football club, largely because right now there are three directors at the current “rangers ” who were at least partly respinsible for the demise of the old one.<\/p>\n

Celtic have remained silent on the accusations hurled at the SFA and Regan since the Whyte trial uncovered a lot of what we already knew, as indeed have other clubs.<\/p>\n

Perhaps they are getting ready for an onslaught.<\/p>\n

After all, they have a duty to shareholders…<\/p>\n

Its imperative we move away from the Celtic Rangers stigma attached to these shennannigans, and involve as many fans of other clubs as we can.<\/p>\n

That should be on the minds of the Celtic board as they examine the fallout and possible consequences now that it has been confirmed something very wrong took place back in 2011-12…<\/p>\n

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We hear that the jury in the Whyte case have been outed…<\/p>\n

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Of course, this is nonsense.<\/p>\n

Thats Pedros new players reporting for training at the worlds most successful club.<\/p>\n

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\u2018I\u2019ve joined the best club in Scotland\u2019 says Fabio Cardoso<\/h2>\n

Newest. He meant Newest. Must have got lost in translation.<\/p>\n

\u201cI met Caixinha for the first time in the airport<\/em><\/strong> and I spoke to him a lot. I like him and what he had to say. He is the right person to put Rangers where it belongs, which is first place. I am very happy to be here. For me, this is the best club in Scotland and I will do my best to help us make history together.\u201d<\/p>\n

This guy hadn’t heard of “Rangers “, Caixinha or Derry’s Walls before he signed, so no doubt it would have been a major surprise to find out the club was even more successful than Benfica or Porto in his homeland, or \u00a0Barcelona and Real Madrid just up the road.<\/p>\n

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It is election day today, and perhaps theres an easier way than popping out to vote, as a letter to highbrow magazine Viz explains..<\/p>\n

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Remember, if you are going to vote Conservative, your election takes place tomorrow.<\/p>\n

You’ve swallowed enough shite over the last few years so i’m sure you’ll believe this as well.<\/p>\n

We go back to Tuesday for the last caption competition…<\/p>\n

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I won..<\/p>\n

“There was confusion at a Conservative rally today when a heckler shouted “Oi, you clueless cow ”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Today, what is going on here..<\/p>\n

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Ignore the title below the picture, thats just fake news…I want to know whats really going on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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