There’s been a bit of chatter on various social media sites over the last week or so regarding the Resoluion 12 issue. Very often, there has been conflicting information in the cybersphere, and so its been a little more difficult to find out who we should be angry with, why we should be angry and what, in actual fact, we’re getting angry about.<\/p>\n
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So, what is, or was, Resolution 12 ?<\/p>\n
At the AGM in 2013, a group of shareholders decided that there was something amiss in the way the SFA were handling things, specifically the registering of teams, okay, a certain team, for European competition.<\/p>\n
One who in fact, owed money to the taxman, in direct contravention of UEFA rules;<\/p>\n
Article 66<\/strong>.<\/p>\n 1 The licensee MUST PROVE that as at 30 June of the year in which the UEFA club competitions commence it has no overdue payables (as specified in Annex VIII) towards its employees and\/or social\/tax authorities (as defined in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 50) that arose prior to 30 June.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n Note its the licensee who must prove this, to the licensor… the SFA<\/p>\n So, what can be deemed as “proof “.<\/p>\n If its a summary of the accounts written on the back of a menu most responsible associations will probably ask for a little more, something official, something that carries a little more weight than a document where its a little difficult to make out all the figures.<\/p>\n If such a document had been handed over, it would have revealed that this club, now unsurprisingly in liquidation, would not have met this criteria.<\/p>\n The SFA would have been forced to deny them a place in european football.<\/p>\n Article 55 \u2013 Responsibilities of the licensor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n 1 The licensor must:<\/em><\/p>\n reporting entity\/entities is\/are the same as those that fulfilled the club licensing criteria and is\/are appropriate for club monitoring purposes;<\/em><\/p>\n So, without calling those involved at the SFA a bunch of liars and cheats, resolution 12 sought to gain a little more information on what was potentially a an incidence of rule breaking at international level. something which could jeopardise Scottish footballs postion within European football, notably participation in both club and national competitions…<\/p>\n It was presented at the AGM, and read;<\/p>\n RESOLUTION 12. SFA and compliance with UEFA licensing requirements<\/em><\/p>\n Resolution 12 has been requisitioned by certain members under the provisions of section 338 of the companies act 2006<\/em><\/p>\n the following statement is circulated on behalf of those members in accordance with section 314 of the companies act 2006<\/em><\/p>\n “We the undersigned request this course of action, from our club custodians and corporate representation, responsible to protect our interests in line with corporate law. We consider the SFA governance has displayed a disregard for the rules and spirit of fair play, contradicted FIFA, UEFA and SFA mission statements and acted in contravention to the spirit of the rules of fair play outlined in FIFA, UEFA and SFA rules, regulations and supplementary documents of which the SFA are signatories, such as;<\/em><\/p>\n FIFA code of conduct article 3 – eleven principles for behaviour and conduct of FIFA family (note 2)<\/em><\/p>\n A Number of recent examples of this including but not limited to the following;<\/em><\/p>\n 1. Unprecedented transfer of membership and granting of license to operate to an unqualified new club, facilitating queue jumping Into lower professional set up, at expense of existing qualified clubs, who applied through the recognised process.<\/em><\/p>\n 2. Secret cross governance agreements to facilitate point 1. Goes against SFA “ethos”<\/em><\/p>\n 3. Participation of a new club in an SFA affiliated club competition without proper registration.<\/em><\/p>\n 4. SFA handing of inquiry over players registration<\/em><\/p>\n we ask you to support this resolution, in the interest of a stronger Celtic\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n (Note, it was quite difficult to find the full text, oddly enough, but this is fairly close to it. Anyone who can find a full copy please add it in the comments below )<\/p>\n At the time, those behind the resolution were invited to talk with representatives of the board, and persuded that the club was already on the case.<\/p>\n As Peter Lawwell explained back then;<\/p>\n \u201cWhen hugely sensitive issues come up we don\u2019t always go public.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n And this is a sensitive issue.<\/p>\n History has taught us – remember the Jorge Cadette registration fiasco?-that perhaps we should be a little cynical when it comes to dealing with the SFA, for although they should have every clubs best interests at heart, it has been known for them not to follow that line exactly to the letter.<\/p>\n And it appears that is what the current fuss is about.<\/p>\n The share holders wrote to the SFA with a list of questions.<\/p>\n Someone, again, could maybe add those questions in the comments, or perhaps put together a follow up artcile with details.<\/p>\n The SFA replied that they would only reply to the club, and not the shareholders. Effectively telling them that although they have a legal interest in this issue, as a mistake, honest or otherwise, did affect the clubs income and consequently the value of their shares, that it is noithing to do with them.<\/p>\n An example of their contempt toward football supporters, and not just Celtic supporters and shareholders.<\/p>\n The club claim no such reply has yet been received, but are loathe to either state this publicly, or even push the SFA for an answer.<\/p>\n The position of the club, who have said that they are acting in their best interests, is a little vague at the moment, and needs to be clarified.<\/p>\n As for the SFA, they don’t even want to comment.<\/p>\n Lets assume that they aren’t going to.<\/p>\n Is this because they genuinely feel that they don’t have to ?<\/p>\n Is this because they know what they have done and are hoping, that as this particular case has a five year limit within UEFA rules for it to be dealt with, it will all go away, and they won’t have to hand in their blazers ?<\/p>\n In the current world of football, both UEFA and FIFA have been tainted by accusations and , indeed, convictions of corruption.<\/p>\n Should the SFA not be falling over themselves to distance their own Association from the murky web of international football, and at least give those of us who , directly or inde=irectly, finance the game in this country, an assurance that they have nothing to do with any of that, and run a clean and transparent organisation within our own borders ?<\/p>\n As it stands, I’m under the impression that the club are asking supporters\/shareholders, to write to UEFA for them . That way, the investigation can continue.<\/p>\n But don’t they have a duty to shareholders to act in the best interetss of the club ?<\/p>\n Does this mean that they feel an investigation of this matter, which certainly warrants a full, independent enquiry, if only to allow the game to move on from the mess it found itself in back in 2012 , isn’t in the best interests of the club ?<\/p>\n If not, why not ?<\/p>\n One would be tempted to think that there may have been a little bit of collusion here, as Celtic CEO is on record as bemoaning the absence of the club that was liquidated, claiming it has cost Celtic around \u00a310m a year.<\/p>\n Did , in fact, he decide it was better to turn a blind eye to any shennanigans down at Hampden because he felt it was in the best interests of Celtic that Rangers should not go under ?<\/p>\n There are a lot of questions that aren’t being answered, and thats largely because no-one is asking them.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n When something is rotten within an organisation, it takes a concerted effort from all of those affected to put things right.<\/p>\n The issue here is trying to get a response to and action on \u00a0the original resolution, which concerns possible malpractice at the SFA.<\/p>\n Forget the liquidated club, they’re long gone, and so it would be a waste of time to walk down that particular road.<\/p>\n The SFA, if they have indeed been , er, bending or ignoring the rules, must be held to account.<\/p>\n First of all, we need some answers, and they could start by answering the original questions which , safely tucked up in their ivory towers, they have failed to do so.<\/p>\n This failure is leading me to think that something is very wrong in Scottish football, and the longer it is allowed to continue, then the more damage it will do to the game in the eyes of its followers.<\/p>\n When the original club from Ibrox was in its death throes, my fear was that they would take the rest of Scottish football down with them.<\/p>\n They didn’t, and indeed one could argue it has flourished.<\/p>\n There is evidence that if it the clubs continue the way they are, there will be a resurgence, at home and abroad, of our national game.<\/p>\n There is also, however, a deep lying worry that those responsible for protecting it are about to have the last laugh, and send the rest of us down the path that the club they tried to help \u00a0have already taken.<\/p>\n Don;t let them do it.<\/p>\n We can start with a simple question.<\/p>\n Email the man at the top after you finish reading this..<\/p>\n stewartregan@scottishfa.co.uk<\/p>\n Resolution 12<\/p>\n Why won’t you answer ?<\/p>\n At least he’ll know we’re onto him.<\/p>\n And in the spirit of Fergus McCann, its worth letting him know we are not going to let it go.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n \n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There’s been a bit of chatter on various social media sites over the last week or so regarding the Resoluion 12 issue. 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