SFA could be forced to shut Ibrox club down for good

[ian1964 10,466]

I wonder if the Scottish government will eventually have to get involved?

[Guest Guardian]

It'll all fizzle out.

 

There's little the SFA can do, other than ban us from the scottish cup, which I feel we should be boycotting anyway.

 

The FIFA legislation relates to getting the SFA to prevent it going to the courts, which has already been done. It's now back with the SFA, so FIFA won't get involved.

 

If they do, they know we'll have them back in court immediately, and on a much bigger scale. A can of worms they surely don't want to open.

 

The tims are "outraged" that we took the SFA to court (conveniently forgetting they did too) and they will be campaigning to apply pressure, but the SFA have no room to maneouvre here. They can't expel us, they can't fine us any more, so it's out the SC.

[simplythebest 0]

Do we have the option to withdraw the court challenges if we are threatened with something like expulsion or is it too late?

[kuznetsov 0]

Do we have the option to withdraw the court challenges if we are threatened with something like expulsion or is it too late?

 

A threat if expulsion will be just that, a threat, nothing more.

[Crimson Dynamo 128]

Interesting article from Bill Leckie

 

http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4345747/SFA-cant-put-up-fight-or-defend-themselves.html

 

FIRST rule of the pub square go.

 

If you’re going to take a swing at the biggest guy in the place, make sure he doesn’t get back up.

 

Ignore it once and you might get away with a slap.

 

Twice? Well, just ask the SFA how it feels.

 

In the last year, they’ve now called out the TWO biggest dudes in Scottish football’s saloon.

 

And both times, they’ve proved they couldn’t punch their way through a wet sheet of lavvy roll.

 

Thirteen months ago, they were taking on Celtic to make Neil Lennon serve an eight-match ban, only for QC Paul McBride to drive the team bus through their case and have it reduced to two four-games bans running concurrently.

 

Now, they’ve tried to stick Rangers with a season-long transfer embargo as punishment for Craig Whyte not paying nine months’ worth of tax.

 

Only for fist to whoosh past chin and their target to stand there sneering: “Is that your best shot?” Those five words have been the last a whole lot of plastic hardmen have heard before the birdies start tweeting around their napper.

 

And in football terms, that’s what’s about to happen to the SFA.

 

After yesterday’s courtroom ruling that the embargo wasn’t worth the paper it was typed on, they’re going to get their blazers pulled up over their heads and their breeks pulled down. Then they’re going to get the metaphorical doing of a lifetime.

 

I was about to write that you can imagine how revved up the ranks of angry Bluenoses will be right now.

 

But with the speed of social networking, by the time you read this they’ll already have made plans to march on Hampden again and give the beaks even bigger pelters than they did last time. That first protest was to demand what they saw as fairness. The next will be the noisiest possible vote of no confidence in the people charged with running our game.

 

It’s surely a vote few followers of ANY club would go against in the current climate, because after this latest twist in the Rangers saga it’s hard to retain much faith in Stewart Regan and his administration.

 

There was a time when the SFA got stick for dragging their feet when it came to big decisions. Remember when wee Berti Vogts was making us a laughing stock and somehow it took them nine months after a 4-0 humping in Cardiff to bin him?

 

It was this kind of shilly-shallying that finally brought about an end to the old-school committee system and saw Regan airlifted in to modernise the whole shooting match.

 

His vow was that from that day on, they WOULD make the decisions that had to be made. And he’s been as good as his word.

 

Only trouble is, it seems they’re now making decisions SO fast they don’t think them through long enough to make them stick. They took on the referees, forced them into a strike and are now losing good men hand over fist. They took on Celtic over Lennon and the late McBride nutmegged them with a beach-ball in a phone box.

 

The Parkhead lawyer left them without a name, declaring that their bid to ban Lennon for eight games was a non-starter because “anyone who can read could see what the rules were”.

 

He told the Hampden mandarins to “grow up and start acting responsibly” and labelled them “institutionally dysfunctional”.

 

His words rings as true today as they did last April.

 

Because now they’ve taken on Rangers. And it’s cringe-makingly obvious that they didn’t brief the independent panel appointed to investigate the Whyte fiasco on what sanctions they could impose.

 

How must those fellas be feeling this morning? They’ve been taking appalling abuse for weeks after Ally McCoist forced the blazers into removing their anonymity — and now, just when they’re starting to disappear back into shadows, their lives get turned upside down again.

 

As for kicking Rangers out of football? Aye right.

 

Listen, if the SFA wanted to banish Rangers for the scandal of their financial meltdown, they should have had the balls to do it from the off. Instead, though, they ended up with some mish-mash of punishments that were plainly their attempt at looking tough-ish without actually putting he tackities on.

 

So what are they telling us now? That because they’ve lost Round One, they’re now going wait till the other guy’s back is turned and malky him with a pool cue?

 

That’s not being tough. That’s being vindictive.

 

It’s one thing increasing a ban on a manager or player who steps out of line then lodges a spurious appeal.

 

But when a club’s opposition to a ruling is vindicated in a court of law, to then bluster about the possibility of coming back with an even heavier sentence only serves to shred what remains of their credibility. Rangers SHOULD be punished. Craig Whyte SHOULD never be involved in football again. David Murray — he’s no more due the Sir part than Fred Goodwin was — CAN’T be allowed to get away with masterminding years of reckless over-spending and tax avoidance.

 

But for the love of God, someone please work out for absolutely certain who they can do what to and how.

 

And until that’s carved in stone and signed off by the men in powdery wigs, let’s not hear another damn word from the SFA.

 

If this lot walk away from this mess with their jobs intact, they’ll have done well. They’d also do well to remember that before taking their next gallus pill.

[Ibrox Street Boy 0]

This was a mess of the SFA's own making, no matter how the press try to paint it, rules are rules and you can't make up rules just to suit the situation.

 

If Scottish football is punished then the only culprits are those in management of the SFA.

 

Are UEFA prepared to back an association that hands out illegal punishiments?

[Danny 0]

SFA/SPL will never ever shut down either of the OF. We bring in the very lifeblood of TV money keeping this league afloat.

[andy steel 0]

I always had this thought, that if we bought some land immediately over the border we could fling up a stadium and start at the very bottom of English football. Expulsion might just force us to! There ought to be some farmers in Northumbria or Cumbria or somewhere who would value a couple of million in their bank.

 

Imagine it, Rangerstown. All the shops that would open up around the ground. Year Zero! And we get away from them!!

[Guest DietofWorms]

I always had this thought, that if we bought some land immediately over the border we could fling up a stadium and start at the very bottom of English football. Expulsion might just force us to! There ought to be some farmers in Northumbria or Cumbria or somewhere who would value a couple of million in their bank.

 

Imagine it, Rangerstown. All the shops that would open up around the ground. Year Zero! And we get away from them!!

 

"Ohh.. build me a home, where there's no pope of rome......."

[kuznetsov 0]

I always had this thought, that if we bought some land immediately over the border we could fling up a stadium and start at the very bottom of English football. Expulsion might just force us to! There ought to be some farmers in Northumbria or Cumbria or somewhere who would value a couple of million in their bank.

 

Imagine it, Rangerstown. All the shops that would open up around the ground. Year Zero! And we get away from them!!

 

Their aim to get rid of us and head south withouth us, they believe that is the only way they will be granted access to the riches of the EPL, hence this nationwide conspiracy to finish us.