No coincidence that this is announced the day before our game. Get the ibrox hoards in full celebratory voice tomorrow.
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No coincidence that this is announced the day before our game. Get the ibrox hoards in full celebratory voice tomorrow.
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Originally Posted by jacomoseven
:agree: Yet he is a "fit and proper person" to be a director of this new club. :confused: What do you have to have done to be considered unfit and improper then?Quote:
Originally Posted by Elephant Stone
Scottish football, the way it's run is rotten to the core. Always has been IMHO.
The folk in charge of football in Scotland wonder why crowds are disappearing, but fail to see their actions are part of the reason it is.
They bend over backward to help clubs who cheat and con their way through life, and folk are rightly getting fed up with it.
You have summed it all up perfectly.Quote:
Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs
But the folk in charge believe that Rangers are football in Scotland.
So things will never change.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/foo...ars-fraud.html
The SFA can have no objections to this guy getting back into Scottish Football. :greengrin
Yup! Only 25 convictions, an amateur compared to a real "pro" like DKQuote:
Originally Posted by greenginger
If Dave King can pass a fit and proper test, then I can only assume that Nick Leeson, Nick Griffin and Jim Traynor will also be joining the Sevco Huns board over the next few weeks.
I don't know if this is corruption or incompetence. But I'd bet my life it's one or the other.
2012-2015 was THE opportunity to reform Scottish football for the better, without the Old Firm being able to veto everything. I do fear we've missed that opportunity though a total lack of leadership. Most clubs (including Hibs) been too busy with their own problems to see the bigger picture, and the SFA and League are useless.Quote:
Originally Posted by gerry70
Agree no way on this earth is the timing of the announcement a coincidence.Quote:
Originally Posted by declan macmanus
And it all adds to the apathy that surrounds Scottish football.Quote:
Originally Posted by gerry70
I'd put money on it being both.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hibs Class
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Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs
I think this pretty much sums up the feeling of decent football fans in Scotland.
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Originally Posted by jacomoseven
was that the year aberdeen voted to keep the status quo ? why they didn't vote against the old squirm monopoly is anyones guess
And that my friend is why we are going to beat them....Scottish football depends on it!Quote:
Originally Posted by jacomoseven
Another year in the Championship will bust them! :greengrin
They'd have to make sure they weren't both incompetent and corrupt at the same time, or they'd make an arse of their evil plans!:wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by blackpoolhibs
It's like giving Ian Brady a pvg certificate😡
It's official - Scottish Football can go and take a flying-****** at itself as only the Hun are catered for !!
Every chairman/board of every club in Scotland will be appalled at this 'decision' - if our game had a poor image before, I dread to think how it's viewed now. Things just got tougher, if not we'll-nigh impossible, for every club/chairman !. At a time when we're trying to get more young people involved in the game, improve our standards and attract bigger-gates, our governing-body says it's ok for a CONVICTED-CROOK to be in charge of one of our biggest clubs. The same club the governing-body brought the new rules in for because of it's cheating - and the same club whose board had the same CONVICTED-CROOK as a member !!. And people wondered WHY the league couldn't find a sponsor ??. Even banana-republics used to such farce will be looking down on us and laughing - and then immediately inviting the entire GFA to give a lecture on -
'How it's done whilst still proclaiming honesty, professionalism and integrity even though the entire country KNOWS you're a shower of lying, bent, corrup b******s' !!!
If ever Scotland needed a Hibs victory, it's tonight - C'MON THE HIBEES !!!!
The head of Rangers First supporters group says on the radio, "It doesn't matter what he did in the past because he is a Ranger who will invest in the club." This convicted criminal didn't even pay his debt to society in the conventional way, he bought his freedom.
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Originally Posted by Deansy
The sad thing is that the first part of your post is not true. The boards of clubs in Scotland have not spoken out against any of this. Have we heard anything from Rod Petrie?
Not surprised at all by this decision. Jack the Ripper would have been deemed "fit and proper" if he was connected with Sevco.Quote:
Originally Posted by Deansy
That voting system is gone anyway with the creation of the SPFL but your point is correct.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
"When this Tax dispute arose many years ago I took the conscious decision NOT to cooperate with the authorities." Quote from fit and proper new Rangers chairman Dave King.
Seems quite simple to me.... SFA should have just read that statement to him and told him to do one!! When I worked as a cop you usually found most people who had nothing to hide and were innocent in any inquiries were perfectly happy to cooperate with you.
The SFA are a spineless, pathetic bunch who have shown in this decision exactly why decent football fans have zero faith in them. Ask yourself this... If this was a so called small club like Arbroath (no disrespect to them) or Cowdenbeath (same applies!) would this decision for 1: Taken so long? And 2: Been the same outcome? I think we all know the answer to those questions... Oh.... And phenomenal timing!! :applause:
So come on Hibs... Get that result tonight that gives the good guys in Scottish football a chance to tell the authorities and media to ram there blatant bias right up there jacksies... :gwa:
They thought **** everyone else and that they could finish 2nd every year, take all the prize money on offer and leave other clubs behind.Quote:
Originally Posted by cabbageandribs1875
This is brilliant, from the (off the radar) record:
Yeah, he certainly showed them! Bet Big Mike Ashley is quaking in his boots. :greengrinQuote:
Don’t be surprised if Ashley is challenged in the coming months over the validity and legality of his Rangers contracts like he has never been challenged before.
Who knows, rather than being in hock to the Cockney billionaire to the tune of £5million, Rangers just might argue he actually owes them, opening up the likelihood of a long court battle, from which King will not flinch.
After all, he spent 12 years staring down the South African tax authorities before cutting a deal in 2013 that saw him ultimately convicted of 41 tax convictions, forking out more than £44m in a deal he later described as “a favourable settlement”.
I don't know what planet these people operate on, somewhere outwith the bounds of common sense, logic or reality! Ashely owes them money, how?!? :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Staring down the South African authorities, he paid them 40m if that is winning. Dear oh dear. Laughable.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
Whoever penned that should be ashamed to call themselves a journalist. Total and utter nonsense.Quote:
Originally Posted by JeMeSouviens
SFA statement said the board had received "specialist" (whatever that means) legal advice in Scotland and South Africa and could confirm King had passed the fit & proper person test.Quote:
Originally Posted by gerry70
I could be wrong here, but was Rod Petrie not part of the group which made this decision?
What I would like to know is how the SFA board came to this decision. What's the chances of that ever being made public? It stinks.