Stewart Regan QUITS

[der Berliner 3,247]

Never really understood how a selected few high-ups from football clubs rule the rest of the game. Someone's got to do it, of course, but as with the SPFL, quite few people are so club-agenda driven that impartiality when it comes to the "good of the game" goes straight out of the window.

 

Every time I tell people about the 2008 farce heading up to the Manchester final and the decision by the SFA et al not to extend the league due to some friendly tour of the Yahoos to Japan that never happened is answered by looks of disbelief. The whole 2012 affair is but an icing on that cake.

[barca72 440]

The problem with the SFA body, as I see it, is there is no representation for the fans and as a result it is very cloistered. This leads to political and personal agendas being played out rather than what is truly good for the game.
Up to this latest meeting, it has been astonishing to watch a man control the workings of our game and who has led it to the depths it has now reached  on the international stage and at the same time offend half of the national support.
Who believes he is doing a good job while half of the support are booing a man wearing a Scotland shirt because of the club he represents?
The present body will have to choose his successor very wisely if they want to overcome the rifts created by Regan.

[Uilleam 5,429]

Today's edition of the Daily Bedlam offers us this snippet of gossip:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-5355237/Did-Rangers-probe-snub-oust-Stewart-Regan.html#ixzz56Iwj2yqa

 

Did Rangers probe snub oust former Scottish FA chief Stewart Regan?

• Stewart Regan's departure at Scottish FA may be down to September's events
• He was seen as the voice of the SFA's rejection to probe Rangers' finances

By Charles Sale for the Daily Mail

PUBLISHED: 22:30, 5 February 2018 | UPDATED: 00:38, 6 February 2018

 

The departure of Stewart Regan as chief executive of the Scottish Football Association last week may have had more to do with a decision made last September than recent events.

Regan’s surprise exit has been put down to a mixture of failing to attract Northern Ireland’s Michael O’Neill as manager, a lack of sponsorship deals, uncertainty over renewing the Hampden Park lease and the organisation of long-distance friendlies against Peru and Mexico allegedly without Professional Game Board approval.

But others believe the highly-rated Regan paid the price for alienating clubs, including all-powerful Celtic, when he was seen as the main voice behind the SFA’s rejection of a request from the Scottish Professional Football League to participate in an independent review into the handling of Rangers’ murky financial affairs.

The SFA told clubs that ‘raking over the coals’ would further damage the image of the game in Scotland. Regan, who is prevented from speaking out by a confidentiality agreement, would not comment.

 

I wonder what the 1st item on the new CEO's agenda will be, presupposing that the "all powerful" Sodom and Begorrah FC will ensure  the appointment of someone supportive of its aims, ambitions, and interests?

 

 

Edited February 6, 2018 by Uilleam