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Time For Regan To Go. The SFA Suffers Sevco-Like Humiliation As O’Neill Turns Them Down.

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The SFA has embarrassed the nation again today, with the news that Michael O’Neill had snubbed their offer to become the new Scotland boss. As with Sevco’s six week long pursuit of Derek McInnes, their much publicised courtship has ended in the footballing equivalent of a slap in the face and a knee to the groin.

How much more can the people in charge of our national sport drag its name through the mud? How much lower can we go? The papers have been touting this deal for what seems like an age. The search lasted longer than the farcical one over at Sevco, and it has ended the same way. With their first choice target turning them down.

Stewart Regan has a lot to answer for. That man is the epitome of the oft-stated truth that the buck never stops at the top of the house. Managers lose their jobs. Players are sold for underperforming. But shit CEO’s somehow cling on in football, in spite of their mistakes.

And Regan’s are no mere mistakes of course; he has already earned himself a place in the history books by his look-the-other way attitude towards industrial scale cheating, his contemptuous attitude towards the supporters and the clubs and his refusal to allow transparency to have its day within the walls of Hampden.

It has turned many supporters off the game. Others have vowed never to set foot inside the national stadium whilst he in post.

Regan’s appointment has been a disaster for the SFA. His term will be remembered for the utter shambles he’s made of key appointments and his lack of reform. He presided over one of the most scandalous periods in its history, with the attempted blackmail of the member clubs over the Rangers issue in 2012. His tenure has been one of failure, scandal and thriving corruption.

And now this. Humiliation on top of it all.

But hey, there’s a silver lining. The job is available again and there are a number of qualified candidates out there, as I’m sure the media will remind us.

If by qualified you mean ex-Rangers bosses and players who can’t even get a gig with the dysfunctional Ibrox operation.

And as bad as one of them getting it would be, it would be out-of-the-box thinking compared to the far more likely scenario; that they’ll give it to the scandalised racist and misogynist who currently masquerades as our “performance director.”

In the game of “how low can you go” the one thing you can rely on is that the answer out of Hampden will always be “lower. There’s room to slide under the bar yet.”

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