Leggat - Regan, The SFA And The Threat To Lee McCulloch

[ian1964 10,514]

STEWART REGAN has escaped proper public censure for his collusion in a Twitter threat to Lee McCulloch, thanks to a disgraceful cover up by Scotlandâ??s newspapers.

 

 

Neither of the top two selling papers in the country, the Sun or the Daily Record, carried the story about Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Reganâ??s disgraceful Twitter antics when he made a favourite of a Tweet which called for Rangers and Scotland star Lee McCulloch to be hanged.

 

Actually the words used on the Tweet which appeared on SFA supremo Reganâ??s official Twitter account, said something about wanting to see McCulloch hung.

 

The poor English led many to believe it had been posted by Stewart Regan, a man whose interviews are sprinkled with bad English.

 

The Rangers Trust pounced on Reganâ??s disgrace and issued a press statement condemning it and calling for action to be taken against Regan.

 

Any journalist worth his salt would testify to the newsworthy nature of this as a story.

 

But this seriously sensational story was ignored by both the Sun and Record. Their snub has now led the Rangers Trust to seriously question the news objectivity of the senior news executives on both papers.

 

And today I can add to their concerns.

 

The Sunday Mail, the Recordâ??s sister paper, also abandoned proper journalistic standards in covering and projecting the story, when what is building towards the Regan Scandal took took a fresh turn.

 

That came when it was revealed by Lee McCulloch that Stewart Regan had made a plaintive plea for forgiveness in a desperate telephone call to him.

 

Regan was trying to get off the hook.

 

The decision of what to do with such a revelation and quote is not a hard one for any newsman. It is to give the story prominence on the news pages â?? almost certainly on Page One.

 

The first paragraph, the all important intro, actually writes itself.

 

â??Stewart Regan has made a humiliating apology to Rangers and Scotland star Lee McCulloch.â?

 

Did the Sunday Mail do that?

 

No chance!

 

The Sunday Mail buried this sensational story as two throw-away paragraphs added to the end of a run-of-the-mill interview with McCulloch, in which he said he would be staying at Ibrox next season. And the story was carried on the sports pages.

 

I would love to hear the editor of the Sunday Mail try and explain that away. Just as Iâ??d be pleased to hear the head honchos at the Sun and the Record explain on what news value judgment they based their decision to ignore the story on.

 

However, I can now reveal that if Stewart Regan thinks he has got off the hook over his blatant apparent collusion in an obvious and sinister on-line threat to the Rangers and Scotland player, I can put him right.

 

My information is that the content of Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Reganâ??s official Twitter account, has been brought to the attention of Strathclyde Police.

 

And that means police now have a legal duty to investigate the whole issue. That is something which will involve questioning Stewart Regan and demanding access to his Twitter account so they can trace the origin of the threat to McCulloch which carried sectarian undertones.

 

I can also reveal that police investigations into such online threats are now under the personal command of a Strathclyde Police Assistant Chief Constable and that he has a team of experienced detectives at his command.

 

I can also reveal that furious Rangers supporters, angry at the way this story has been covered up by the Sun, by the Daily Record and by the Sunday Mail, are now ready to call in political big guns and create the sort of storm even the fearties in the editorial chairs of the Sun, Record and Sunday Mail will not be able to ignore or bury away.

 

Scotlandâ??s Scottish National Party First Minister Alex Salmond and his deputy, Govan MSP, Nicola Sturgeon, can expect to be contacted by Rangers Supporters Groups to ask what view they take of Stewart Reganâ??s involvement.

 

After all, after Regan led the witch hunt to sack Hugh Dallas, he went on record as saying that SFA employees should take great care when using new technology and social networking sites.

 

There have already been plenty of examples of stupid sectarian rants and sinister threats online leading to police warnings, charges, court cases and prison sentences.

 

With all of that evidence and precedent available in the public domain, the question which is now being posed by a variety of people in journalism, politics and football â?? many of them with no connection or allegiance to Rangers â?? is this.

 

If such a Tweet had been made about wanting to hang a Celtic player, and had it been made a favourite by Stewart Regan on his own official SFA Twitter account and left there for over four months, would the Sun and the Record have ignored the story?

 

And had Regan telephoned the Celtic player with a groveling apology, would the Sunday Mail have been so keen to bury the story?

 

If Rangers supporters groups make the right moves over the next 24 hours, then this story will soon make headlines. It will gather pace and run and run.

 

Putting the already beleaguered and increasingly erratic Stewart Regan in the eye of the storm and under more and more pressure.

[foggy dewhurst 0]

this was in one of yesterdays papers leggo must be on holiday mode .

[Frankie 8,200]

I must admit, I found all this a bit confusing last week.

 

I doubt Regan would have been so stupid as to favourite such an offensive tweet so he could laugh at it every other day but the circumstantial evidence also shows his suggestion that he was keeping it to report the offender isn't completely reliable.

 

All in all, it's just another example of his incompetence. For that long list alone, he should be falling on his sword and the fact hardly any people are pressuring for this shows how much of a challenge our club is facing nowadays.

[smile 0]

Regan should go as should his scum pals peter and eric.

[caseyjones 0]

Regan should go as should his scum pals peter and eric.

 

What role does Riley hold within the SFA?

[Frankie 8,200]

What role does Riley hold within the SFA?

 

He's the vice-chair of the disciplinary committee and a member of the appeals committee. He's also the Glasgow FA rep.

 

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/SFAPublications/SFAHandbook/01%20Council&StandComm.pdf

[caseyjones 0]

He's the vice-chair of the disciplinary committee and a member of the appeals committee. He's also the Glasgow FA rep.

 

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/SFAPublications/SFAHandbook/01%20Council&StandComm.pdf

 

Thanks, Frankie.

[smile 0]

He's the vice-chair of the disciplinary committee and a member of the appeals committee. He's also the Glasgow FA rep.

 

http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/resources/documents/SFAPublications/SFAHandbook/01%20Council&StandComm.pdf

 

Hes also on the SPL board as well so has a foot in both camps we have been slow on having any form of representation on these Kangaroo court committees.

[caseyjones 0]

Hes also on the SPL board as well so has a foot in both camps we have been slow on having any form of representation on these Kangaroo court committees.

 

Ali Russell was due to join the SPL board this summer, but as we still don't have a suitable representative, that's likely to go elsewhere.