Tonight on the discredited radio station Clyde 1, the discredited hack, Derek Johnstone, insulted every person in Scotland who has expressed a concern about the situation at Sevco by categorising us as people who “crawled out from under a rock.”
This shameful, disgraceful, slur comes as pressure grows on the SPFL and the SFA to get their house in order and put sporting integrity front and centre, and demonstrate their commitment to looking after the well-being of the game.
In a further twist, last night Dodgy Dave King issued a remarkable statement from the Ibrox bunker full of veiled threats and invective.
Today, Celtic responded by reminding the governing bodies that their first duty is to the sport and that it’s their job to protect it.
As the temperature rises across Scottish football, as a direct consequence of the continuing ego, arrogance and blatant wrongdoing of the people who inhabit Ibrox Stadium, a lot of people are starting to crack under the pressure.
The media is also trying to divert attention from the two central points here:
1) The EBT scheme has been deemed tax evasion. Rangers were, for ten years, breaking the tax law.
This issue is explosive.
The Scottish football authorities cannot allow a club to have gained sporting advantage for over a decade by virtue of illegal activity.
2) The nonsense – the arrant, utter, complete nonsense – that Sandy Bryson said at the Lord Nimmo Smith inquiry, that because we didn’t know wrongdoing had taken place that it was not actually wrongdoing, this also has to be challenged.
The SFA gave a secret guarantee to Charles Green that there would be no title stripping, before a single piece of evidence had been heard in the Lord Nimmo Smith case.
During that hearing their head of registrations was allowed to get in front of the judge and pose a wholly unacceptable, even dangerous, interpretation of the rules … and thus the SFA delivered on their promise.
Let’s not beat around the bush; Sandy Bryson’s testimony in this case was a disgrace, and without that testimony Nimmo Smith would have had no choice but to rule the dual contracts a violation of the regulations which would have ruled every one of the players who held them ineligible.
Every one of the matches in which they played would have been ruled null and void.
The Lord Nimmo Smith inquiry has to be placed in context.
The guys investigating Resolution 12 have proved, conclusively, that it was flawed, that Nimmo Smith himself was not acting with the full information, that he was either deliberately misled or given incomplete records; either way, there can be no question any longer about leaving that as the “final word.”
It is as badly compromised as it’s possible to be.
This events that transpired at Ibrox were shameful.
But the quest of the Bampots long ago moved on from being concerned with that.
The much greater, far more important, issue here is that the governing bodies be made to act within the rules and with the spirit of sporting integrity first and foremost.
Our gripe, our continuing issue, is with them, with people who are supposed to protect our sport but have subverted it instead, and they are at Hampden, not Ibrox.
The club that registered those players is no longer with us.
It cannot be punished, and the NewCo ought not be punished because of that.
But the records can be amended to reflect the reality of what happened here, and that was not simply ten years of financial doping which has been deemed against the law, but the systematic decision that club made not to disclose every detail of these players contracts to the appropriate body at the time.
The contract situation is far and away the bigger issue; other clubs have been kicked out of competitions for not completing paperwork properly.
A club that did not disclose payments to players and hid away second contracts, and who were doing this for more than a decade, cannot be allowed to get away with it because the guy the SFA put in charge of registrations was able to get in front of a judge and say that his association and its ignorance of that systematic wrongdoing negates the act of wrongdoing itself.
The media would have you believe this is all about Rangers; that suits their narrative because it lets them paint this campaign as one driven by rivalry, even hate.
This is about the people who run our sport and the way it is run.
It’s about the way the world will view Scottish football in years to come, and the way we view it ourselves.
It stinks to high heaven, and no-one’s “moving on” until it’s sorted out once and for all.
I was forever trying to discredit Johnstone when he got a chair on the Real Radio phone in. His is nothing more than a diddy PR man for sevco who resorts to abusing anyone that dares question anything related to sevco.
One thing I will say about the fat git…he never slags his Club off…unlike a few of ours I could mention.
Havin’ said that…
He is a twat ..and this proves it.
Reinforces my argument that Tims shouldna’e keep him in a job by responding to his biased crap.
Fat DJ….brain dead…just like his old club?
I was the first caller on there tonight they listened to what I said then wudnt let me come back when I pointed out 2 different contracts dj tried to shoo it away I spoke about the sporting integrity and how the oldco have admitted they done this to gain an unfair advantage against other teams
Nice one mate…I only listen to it to know what the propagandists are spouting. well in
surely yet again he cannot get away with such comments, lets see what radio clide do about this or should this be taken to a governing body?
Thanks for the article – sums up the key points brilliantly, keep fighting the good fight
Ok many different points but here is one i would like to know.
So if we accept that Mr Bryson made an “Honest mistake” in not providing Lord Nimmo Smith with all the available facts. Then lets give Lord Nimmo Smith the benefit of the doubt, lets pretend he was misled.
So Lord Nimmo Smith has trusted the word of someone without properly checking the facts, has acted on that information and basically made himself look like and idiot to the rest of the world.
NB: Ignorance is no defence in Scotslaw.
Is there the availabilty of an inquiry into the ruling, potential overturning of the decision and is there a timeframe before any such appeal would be time barred? HAIL HAIL
wonder how LNS feels when his good name and position is brought into question in this sordid mess. Where’s the justice here. In his case I’d haul the lot of the rooks before the dock and charge them for fraud and contempt of court. This is real “contempt” and they are guilty as charged in the seat of hamden power.
masons. what more can you say
did you see what that idiot wrote in tonights evening times that they should have a seat at the top table at the sfa
I thought they already had that going with the way the sfa are protecting them
Well said Twiggy,DJ should stick to eating pies
Any other sport in any other country action would be taken Ben johnston athletics – Larance Armstrong – cycling. Juventus – football New England Patriots – nfl just some of the people/teams caught doing wrong and punished only in Scotland do they not want to punish the wrongdoers in case it upsets the fans of the (establishment team) not for the good of the game even they lawyer for Charles green said they are not the same team in so many words not the same team but still want the history of the team but not the debt want all the good but none of the bad
I take great offence at dj I didn’t come from under a rock he’s a moron and a sectarian asshole
DJ was given the opportunity to rephrase his insult, but he said no “that’s what I believe”. Fair enough if that’s what you believe. He tried to change his story at the end of the show, that he was referring to “people who work on the radio and newspaper men”. He also seems really sure BDO are going to appeal the BTC. We are what we are DJ, we are what we are.
He’s not the brightest.
Fat man is full of crap and know doubt this is all we’ll here, from all their has beens.
Good to see Celtic let them know, sporting integrity must prevail, we’re going to get those titles you cheated us out off. And let’s see all the dark secrets we discover along the way.
HH
His comments should ensure all of us who have crawled from under rocks ensure that the clubs we support push for justice in this instance.
What a clown this man is.The radio station must get rid of him and people like him.Sevco are in a bigger mess than before yet he defends them at every turn. Unbelievable.
shold have went specksavers talking through blue tinted specks
Since when was big fat DJ a journalist? He’s an ex-footballer with a ghost written column.
The evidence by Bryson is where we should put our focus. No right thinking person would accept such nonsense so why did LNS ? Interesting that the SFA will be squirming in the Ashley Judicial Review to explain why they ignored the two main tenets of the “Fit and Proper” criteria but why don’t we as fans of all clubs seek a Judicial Review on the LNS ruling. After all the enquiry was supposing that the EBT were legal at the time and a re run of this SFA evidence would be illuminating to say the least.
Anyone can ask for a judicial review. We could finance it through crowdfunding. Lets do it.
Derek Johnstone is clinically obese!
You know what let the fat bloater spout his mouth off as everytime he does he makes an ARSE of himself and does a better job of stereotyping the HUNS than any of us ever could.
Call a spade a spade Monti, he is FAT! HaHaHa!! and I am not stalking you.
Morbidly
DJ also said that it doesn’t matter what the fans think…how deluded is he…without the fans there is nothing..
I think that summarises the issues concisely. Tax evasion and lies to commission. As for DJ I have nothing to say abt him