The extent to which people in England have a stunning lack of knowledge apropos matters Scottish continues to surprise me.
I was surprised to learn on Friday that Neil Doncaster and Stewart Regan were interviewing for the job of chief executive of the English Football League. After I stopped laughing, my thoughts were that (a) it was further proof of how little the English know of what is happening in Scottish football, (b) not very loyal of the dynamic duo in light of the restructuring – particularly Doncaster having just been appointed SPFL chief executive, and (c) it’s a shame they can’t both get hired as Scottish football would be immeasurably enhanced by their absence!
If Doncaster and Regan had been successful last summer then Sevco would just have finished their first season in the SPL.
276 creditors stiffed, millions of pounds unpaid and players improperly registered.
As far as these two fine fellows were concerned New Rangers could start at the top debt free and largely consequence free.
That they even tried that move should, in my opinion, make them unemployable in any post in professional football administration.
Before the inhabitants of Planet Fitba get their hopes up, there are other candidates for the job.
They are both complicit in the whole fiasco. Regan was never taken to task with the social unrest comment, as for Doncaster,he is certainly not found his village yet..Ogilvie one has me in disbelief. Someone mentioned the English FA not having a clue what has gone on up here, but I think its down to the BBC and local and National newspapers misreporting the facts. History is being rewritten to suit an agenda.
I have been amazed at the total ignorance in England of the damage that Oldco’s economic strategy has done not only to the dead club and their creditors, but for Scottish senior football. And the involvement of this pair as they tried to circumvent the rules of the organisations the worked for in order to give a leg up to Newco. Although I wish messrs Doncaster and Regan God’s speed in finding employment elsewhere, In all honesty I personally could not offer this pair of clownshoes a position unless they were kept under the constant and withering eye of a supervisor, or has that been the case all along?
Well brought out into the open Phil.
They (Regan and Doncaster) seem to be as loyal to their job as Walter Smith was to the Scotland job when dead Rangers came calling. And yet they have the audacity to call on football supporters in Scotland to show a bit of loyalty to their clubs by supporting those clubs throughout their lives. Clearly they do not practice what they preach. These two clowns must be the among the worst examples of footballing authority anywhere in the world. They continue to find new ways of embarrassing Scottish football with their latest gem of not bothering to investigate the obvious links between Charles Green and Craig Whyte but happy to take the Sevco report that says. . . ‘everything is all right there is no connection’. Laurel and Hardy have nothing absolutely nothing on Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster for hilarity and bufoonery.
If it wasn’t so destructive it would be entertaining.
Actually, the moment a vote was sanctioned for the new club to enter straight into the top flight, heads should have rolled.
Can you imagine if I bought Highbury then started a new team called The Arsenal. Would the English and Welsh Premier league hold a vote to let my club join or would they laugh me out of town?
Unprofessionalism in the extreme by the SPL.
I have no doubt your info will be 100% accurate Phil so once again, the word “Shameless” is appropriate.
They make the bankers look almost naive.
Wee (or is it big?)Craigy’s film/panto will be a box office smash I’m sure.
A good wee indicator that both want out of this mess, fast. I doubt that they knew that each other was pursuing the same job, but they might now! I wonder how that will play in the shared kitchen at Hampden?
Send the EFL a copy of their ‘shadow resume’?
I hope they both get the job and have to duel for it.