He Has Failed (Or Didn’t Even Try) To Reform The SFA
One of the things that irks Celtic fans most as we watch our team rot from the inside is that we have an absentee landlord and, lately, a part time CEO.
Lawwell has spent as long on “official business” with the SPFL, the SFA and the European Club Association as he has doing the actual nuts and bolts work he’s meant to at Celtic, and this is clearly not good enough.
He’s paid a £1 million plus salary.
Is it too much to suggest he actually focus his attention on doing his actual damned day job instead of working for all these other people?
The only way in which it would be remotely acceptable is if he was actually doing some good in these organisations, both for the game and for Celtic itself.
The simple fact is that in two of them he’s not.
At the ECA we’ve done well to have a voice on their Executive, especially at a time when certain greedy clubs are pushing for poisonous reforms. Outside of that, Doncaster remains at the helm of the SPFL, protected and coddled by Lawwell and others and at the SFA, where the greatest and most wide ranging reforms are needed, it’s business as usual.
What do we know of the SFA in his time on their key boards?
Campbell Ogilvie was re-elected president unopposed.
Read that again. Unopposed. Unanimously.
Mr Conflicted himself.
But no conflict on the part of the member clubs it seems, ours included.
The Pinset Mason scandal was allowed, wherein the SFA allowed Charles Green’s relationship with Craig Whyte to be “investigated” internally at Ibrox.
What was the result of that?
No relationship was found, of course.
Except for the one later uncovered by the Fraud Squad and which is currently in court.
Sevco are currently ineligible for a European football licence, and should they win the Scottish Cup there should be no question of letting them take a place in the Europa League. Watch and see what happens there. Their getting it is assured.
Where are the regulations on Financial Fair Play?
Where are the tougher sanctions for teams who go into administration?
Where is the confirmation, in the regulations, that teams who are liquidated can’t simply reform, having dumped debts, unless it’s in the bottom tier?
Why hasn’t this “retention of history” cobblers, which means any club can do this and carry on as before, not been clarified, made public and the Survival Myth destroyed?
I could go on and on and on … because for all the benefit we’re supposed to attain from having Peter Lawwell in the upper echelons of the governing bodies, what actual change can he boast of? What measures has he pushed through to protect the integrity of our game?
What reforms has he enacted?
What good has he actually done?
