One of the key aspects of the Ibrox saga for decades was the lack of any independent oversight.
It just might be that back in the day the organisation that employed the late Jim Farry had something of a blind spot when it came to the stadium that John Brown played for.
Indeed, the governance failures of the SFA are beyond debate regarding the UEFA licence issue that became Resolution 12.
If you want to know about that, then go here.
The current UEFA ordinances under Financial Sustainability Regulation (FSR) can be seen, in part, as emanating from the 2012 shitshow in Scotland.
Certainly, the architect of the new rules, Andrea Traverso, UEFA’s Director of Financial Sustainability and Research, knows ALL about what happened on Planet Fitba apropos the death of the original Rangers.
Now, with FSR, all is changed, changed utterly.
It is within these structures that the current Ibrox entity must operate.
What would Planet Fitba look like if an independent body was tasked with ensuring that football clubs were run correctly?
Well, there should be such a body extant within Britain reasonably soon.
As regular readers will know, I have been following the progress of the Tracey Crouch proposals for some time.
Now, it is finally on the legislative programme for the next session of Westminster.
As sport is a devolved matter, it falls to the regional assembly in Edinburgh to copy this excellent legislation or not.
Imagine if the lawmakers at Holyrood follow suit and enact a Scottish version of these long overdue reforms. In that case, only ONE club currently operating in Scotland might have pause to analyse how they do things.
The featured image is a statement by Malcolm Clarke, chairman of the Football Supporters Association.
It is now down to organisations like the Scottish Football Supporters Association (SFSA),
They were certainly quick out of the blocks with this statement welcoming the proposed legislation for England, and you can read their statement here.
I wish them well.
If it’s not a free market…it’s a rigged market…think on
I think we all know the answer to that question phil
After all they are enablers of the same club guff .
Tav does wat tav does
SFA does wat the sfa does
Let the free market prevail.
They’d be better banning phoenix companies and laws to remove limited liability for plcs
I have nothing against phoenix clubs. I support one myself. But there needs to be honesty about what they are. A phoenix club may have an emotional connection with the former club, but they are not a continuity of the former club. They start again, from the bottom, with a clean bank balance, new personnel and a blank honours board.
Sad thing is, you just know it would be staffed by the same corrupt, morally bankrupt lodge brethren currently/previously tasked with refereeing, VAR, transfers, financial submissions to UEFA and everything else that has been corrupted in favour of the team playing in blue at the Bomber Brown Arena.
Indeed.
I wouldnt be holding my breath here Phil.
I’ve got my scuba gear ready