Good post from me old mucker Leggo....

[AlCapone 7,678]

http://leggoland2.blogspot.co.uk/

THERE are so many of my colleagues who should not be let loose unaccompanied on London’s Oxford Street, for fear of them being fleeced, that their numbers would probably jam the old shopping thoroughfare.

Back in my heyday Oxford Street was the haunt of n’er-do-wells such as three-card-trick hucksters and find-the-lady tricksters.

Some of my the Scottish press pack pals give the impression of being gullible enough to lose their wad to one gang on their way down the street, fill up at an ATM and then lose that wad too, to other shysters on their way back.

How else to explain their headlong rush to believe that a decision taken by the eminent and learned Scottish Judge, Lord Glennie, sitting amidst the Majesty of the Court of Session, with reference to one of the oldest and most sacred legal systems in the world, Scots Law, should have anything to fear from Sep Blatter and his gang at FIFA.

Blatter? Is that us back in Oxford Street surrounded by find-the-lady tricksters and shysters?

I name one notable press pack exception to this headlong rush of ill informed hysteria, Michael Grant in the Herald.

Grant wrote a reasoned and balanced view of what it all meant and also performed admirably, with wisdom and common sense on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday morning.

A wee word of warning to Michael. He should be careful there. Admirable wisdom and common sense, when applied to matters Rangers, do not seem to be welcome on the BBC Scotland airwaves, ruled as they are by a cabal of Rangers hating Celtic supporters.

They know who they are. I know who they are. And soon everyone will know who they are.

For the moment, let us return to the judgment of the eminent and learned Lord Glennie, issued from the Majesty of Edinburgh’s ancient Court of Session.

Lord Glennie said there was no basis in the Scottish Football Association’s Laws for the punishment of a year-long transfer ban to be imposed on Rangers.

As any of his TransAtlantic fellow jurists may say, we hold this truth to be self evident.

Lord Glennie then pronounced that the matter of the sentence – the SENTENCE, mind you – should be referred back to the INDEPENDENT Appeals Tribunal.

Rangers at no time appealed against the VERDICT!

It would appear that there are many in the press pack who have difficulty separating the verdict from the sentence.

There were just as many journalists who either lazily or willfully compared the Rangers case to

the one involving Swiss club Sion. There are no similarities.

Sion were found guilty of illegal methods in the transfer market and banned from signing players. They then ignored the sentence, signed players and played them in a UEFA tournament.

Not a wee bit different. Totally different!

In effect, what we have here is another example of how the Scottish Football Association has fallen into disrepair since Stewart Regan was allowed to highjack it and sneak his best buddy, Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell, into the seat alongside him around the boardroom table inside Hampden.

After the late Paul McBride QC successfully challenged a six match ban on Neil Lennon, with threats of court proceedings hanging in the air, Regan promised reform of the Scottish Football Association Articles of Association, Laws, Rules, Procedures, etc. McBride QC went on record as saying he would help.

Stewart Regan went on record too, recalling how the threat of legal action over the Neil Lennon ban had hung in the air and voicing his concern that the Scottish Football Association should never again leave itself open to the possibility of being usurped by the Law of the Land, in, for instance, the Court of Session.

Regan said: "We have discussed the matter with Celtic Football Club and they accept that Neil Lennon was guilty of misconduct.

"However, with regard to the timing of the suspension we must accept that if our rules cannot be enforced in a court of law then they cannot be imposed and it is foolish to waste money defending such a point.

"We acknowledge that our rules do need updating and I have proposed to our board that we commission a complete re write of the disciplinary procedures from a legal perspective to address this whole matter.

"Whilst we have an obligation to ensure that our rules can be legally enforced, nevertheless it is important for the future of Scottish football that we do not allow our disciplinary procedures to be used as a costly legal playground.

"We must ensure we can reach a happy balance where every decision is not subject to an appeal and football can self-govern without constant legal interventions."

All of the above is pretty clear. Regan mentions the past SFA rules could not be defended in a court of law. That it would be foolish to waste money attempting to defend such a point and that a complete re-write of the disciplinary procedures was needed, from a legal perspective.

He added that such a re-write was part of the SFA’s obligation to ensure that its rules could be legally enforced.

But after goodness knows how much money was wasted by the Regan-Lawwell SFA cabal, the Scottish Football Association cannot even abide by its own rules.

The sentence which was handed down to Rangers was one the eminent and learned Lord Glennie, sitting amidst the Majesty of the Court of Session, and drawing on the experience of one of the world’s oldest legal systems, Scots Law, decreed cannot be legally enforced.

Lord Glennie spoke and so the whispering in ears began. So started the spin. The result?

Big bad FIFA will clamp down on the Scottish Football Association and ORDER them to get tough on Rangers. To boot Rangers out of the Scottish Football Association. To bring an end to Rangers. Take that! That’ll teach you to want to abide by the Law of the Land.

We are Stewart Regan and Peter Lawwell’s SFA and we are above such petty restrictions.

We’ve got Sep Blatter on our side. What does he care for Scots Law?

With an added hint here, a wee whisper there, give it a good stir and what do we have?

That it is the Scottish Football Association who will clamp down and hammer Rangers.

In fact the sad Sun, so far behind on this Rangers story that it's been lapped countless times, is still peddling the line that FIFA are breathing down the SFA's neck, putting pressure on Stewart Regan to break Scots Law.

REALLY?

I am sure the eminent and learned Lord Glennie would take more than a passing interest were that to happen.

After all, when he overturned the SENTENCE, he sent the matter back to the Independent Judicial Appeals Tribunal. The definitive word there, being….

INDEPENDENT!

A word Peter Lawwell’s pal, SFA head honcho, Stewart Regan used over and over and over again when the verdict was first delivered by an INDEPENDENT Judicial Panel and then confirmed by an INDEPENDENT Judicial Appeals Tribunal.

Therefore, any hint, any suggestion, any slight suspicion, that what the eminent and learned Lord Glennie ordered, is not INDEPENDENT, and Stewart Regan will find himself hauled in front of the learned Law Lord and asked to explain himself.

Ordered to give Lord Glennie a good reason for his actions not being treated as contempt of court.

It won't be that pillar of honesty and integrity, of all things good and decent, the old FIFA despot, Blatter facing the Majesty of Scots Law. It will be Stewart Regan

It will be Regan who will be ordered to give Lord Glennie a good reason why he should not utter the feared instruction of…

“TAKE HIM DOWN!”

And I don’t mean down to the Big Smoke for a wander along Oxford Street to watch so many of the Scottish Press pack fall for the three card trick.

[centenarystand 2,229]

I was on the verge of unsubscribing to leggo but thats agood piece from him today.

[sprotson11 147]

I was on the verge of unsubscribing to leggo but thats agood piece from him today.

I agree that it is a good piece, but far too rare these days

[elephants stoned 2,994]

Well said Leggo im quick to critisise him when i feel hes gone a bit odd but that was back to his best. Hope to see more like this

[Smile 26,622]

A good article but he's nicked it from here http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=221546

[ray 105]

Thursday, 31 May 2012

SFA AND REGAN SHOULD BEWARE CONTEMPT OF COURT CHARGES- Exclusive

THERE are so many of my colleagues who should not be let loose unaccompanied on London’s Oxford Street, for fear of them being fleeced, that their numbers would probably jam the old shopping thoroughfare.

Back in my heyday Oxford Street was the haunt of n’er-do-wells such as three-card-trick hucksters and find-the-lady tricksters.

Some of my the Scottish press pack pals give the impression of being gullible enough to lose their wad to one gang on their way down the street, fill up at an ATM and then lose that wad too, to other shysters on their way back.

How else to explain their headlong rush to believe that a decision taken by the eminent and learned Scottish Judge, Lord Glennie, sitting amidst the Majesty of the Court of Session, with reference to one of the oldest and most sacred legal systems in the world, Scots Law, should have anything to fear from Sep Blatter and his gang at FIFA.

Blatter? Is that us back in Oxford Street surrounded by find-the-lady tricksters and shysters?

I name one notable press pack exception to this headlong rush of ill informed hysteria, Michael Grant in the Herald.

Grant wrote a reasoned and balanced view of what it all meant and also performed admirably, with wisdom and common sense on BBC Radio Scotland yesterday morning.

A wee word of warning to Michael. He should be careful there. Admirable wisdom and common sense, when applied to matters Rangers, do not seem to be welcome on the BBC Scotland airwaves, ruled as they are by a cabal of Rangers hating Celtic supporters.

They know who they are. I know who they are. And soon everyone will know who they are.

For the moment, let us return to the judgment of the eminent and learned Lord Glennie, issued from the Majesty of Edinburgh’s ancient Court of Session.

Lord Glennie said there was no basis in the Scottish Football Association’s Laws for the punishment of a year-long transfer ban to be imposed on Rangers.

As any of his TransAtlantic fellow jurists may say, we hold this truth to be self evident.

Lord Glennie then pronounced that the matter of the sentence – the SENTENCE, mind you – should be referred back to the INDEPENDENT Appeals Tribunal.

Rangers at no time appealed against the VERDICT!

It would appear that there are many in the press pack who have difficulty separating the verdict from the sentence.

There were just as many journalists who either lazily or willfully compared the Rangers case to

the one involving Swiss club Sion. There are no similarities.

Sion were found guilty of illegal methods in the transfer market and banned from signing players. They then ignored the sentence, signed players and played them in a UEFA tournament.

Not a wee bit different. Totally different!

In effect, what we have here is another example of how the Scottish Football Association has fallen into disrepair since Stewart Regan was allowed to highjack it and sneak his best buddy, Celtic chief executive, Peter Lawwell, into the seat alongside him around the boardroom table inside Hampden.

After the late Paul McBride QC successfully challenged a six match ban on Neil Lennon, with threats of court proceedings hanging in the air, Regan promised reform of the Scottish Football Association Articles of Association, Laws, Rules, Procedures, etc. McBride QC went on record as saying he would help.

Stewart Regan went on record too, recalling how the threat of legal action over the Neil Lennon ban had hung in the air and voicing his concern that the Scottish Football Association should never again leave itself open to the possibility of being usurped by the Law of the Land, in, for instance, the Court of Session.

Regan said: "We have discussed the matter with Celtic Football Club and they accept that Neil Lennon was guilty of misconduct.

"However, with regard to the timing of the suspension we must accept that if our rules cannot be enforced in a court of law then they cannot be imposed and it is foolish to waste money defending such a point.

"We acknowledge that our rules do need updating and I have proposed to our board that we commission a complete re write of the disciplinary procedures from a legal perspective to address this whole matter.

"Whilst we have an obligation to ensure that our rules can be legally enforced, nevertheless it is important for the future of Scottish football that we do not allow our disciplinary procedures to be used as a costly legal playground.

"We must ensure we can reach a happy balance where every decision is not subject to an appeal and football can self-govern without constant legal interventions."

All of the above is pretty clear. Regan mentions the past SFA rules could not be defended in a court of law. That it would be foolish to waste money attempting to defend such a point and that a complete re-write of the disciplinary procedures was needed, from a legal perspective.

He added that such a re-write was part of the SFA’s obligation to ensure that its rules could be legally enforced.

But after goodness knows how much money was wasted by the Regan-Lawwell SFA cabal, the Scottish Football Association cannot even abide by its own rules.

The sentence which was handed down to Rangers was one the eminent and learned Lord Glennie, sitting amidst the Majesty of the Court of Session, and drawing on the experience of one of the world’s oldest legal systems, Scots Law, decreed cannot be legally enforced.

Lord Glennie spoke and so the whispering in ears began. So started the spin. The result?

Big bad FIFA will clamp down on the Scottish Football Association and ORDER them to get tough on Rangers. To boot Rangers out of the Scottish Football Association. To bring an end to Rangers. Take that! That’ll teach you to want to abide by the Law of the Land.

We are Stewart Regan and Peter Lawwell’s SFA and we are above such petty restrictions.

We’ve got Sep Blatter on our side. What does he care for Scots Law?

With an added hint here, a wee whisper there, give it a good stir and what do we have?

That it is the Scottish Football Association who will clamp down and hammer Rangers.

In fact the sad Sun, so far behind on this Rangers story that it's been lapped countless times, is still peddling the line that FIFA are breathing down the SFA's neck, putting pressure on Stewart Regan to break Scots Law.

REALLY?

I am sure the eminent and learned Lord Glennie would take more than a passing interest were that to happen.

After all, when he overturned the SENTENCE, he sent the matter back to the Independent Judicial Appeals Tribunal. The definitive word there, being….

INDEPENDENT!

A word Peter Lawwell’s pal, SFA head honcho, Stewart Regan used over and over and over again when the verdict was first delivered by an INDEPENDENT Judicial Panel and then confirmed by an INDEPENDENT Judicial Appeals Tribunal.

Therefore, any hint, any suggestion, any slight suspicion, that what the eminent and learned Lord Glennie ordered, is not INDEPENDENT, and Stewart Regan will find himself hauled in front of the learned Law Lord and asked to explain himself.

Ordered to give Lord Glennie a good reason for his actions not being treated as contempt of court.

It won't be that pillar of honesty and integrity, of all things good and decent, the old FIFA despot, Blatter facing the Majesty of Scots Law. It will be Stewart Regan

It will be Regan who will be ordered to give Lord Glennie a good reason why he should not utter the feared instruction of…

“TAKE HIM DOWN!”

And I don’t mean down to the Big Smoke for a wander along Oxford Street to watch so many of the Scottish Press pack fall for the three card trick.

posted by leggoland @ 06:11

[jimgers 565]

good piece, Leggo is far better when he's getting tore into our known enemies.

[AlCapone 7,678]

A good article but he's nicked it from here http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=221546

Nothing wrong with that

[Blue Army Faction 28]

Nice one Leggo

[boss 1,941]

This is when Leggo is at his best. Good blog today.

[Ozblue 4,332]

He raises some valid points in that article,one being that we have had all these media reports stating that "FIFA WANT RANGERS HAMMERED" then in the next breath they state that Fifa have not even been notified about this case.

The other point is that comparing the Sion case and our case is as relevant as comparing Ibrox to Cliftonhill as stadia. There is no comparison whatsoever in the case,except that the Lord of the World (Dwarf Blatter) will expect that the Law of a State country be disregarded and the law of FIFA be the only law to be obeyed.

[delamonty 992]

Enjoyed that. Well done Leggo!

[Lloret1972 13]

A good article but he's nicked it from here http://forum.rangersmedia.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=221546

I think you are way out there chum as that lead post has in effect 'nicked' the quote from elsewhere and without even quoting the source or the fact that it was made over a year ago.

There has been much highlighting of the SFA quotes originating from the Lennon excesses in recent days across forums, Facebook and Twitter.

I canny really understand the animosity and low level sniping directed at David Leggat, a guy whose heart is red, white and blue - and always has been. Sure he might ramble a wee bit (allowances for age please) now & again but he's been bang on the nose with a lot of his forecasts through all this sorry mess - and far ahead of many of the mainstream mhedia.

His predictions have been so good that I seriously worry is that his predictions about Charlie Green are near the mark.

[MisterC 12,452]

Good blog today, credit where its due. I have been quick to criticise him recently, but lets hope todays blog is him back to him being on form.

[simplythebest 11,453]

No doubt he'll be back to Green Gang shite tomorrow, sadly.

[Lloret1972 13]

No doubt he'll be back to Green Gang shite tomorrow, sadly.

Just the kind of sniping I referred to.

[simplythebest 11,453]

Just the kind of sniping I referred to.

Any sniping is well deserved after his work since TBK came into town.

[bgally 452]

aye this is good leggo ,well done.

[Bluepeter9 5,167]

Loggo reads rm as some poster wrote very sililar a few days ago

[Edmiston Drive 3,846]

I think you are way out there chum as that lead post has in effect 'nicked' the quote from elsewhere and without even quoting the source or the fact that it was made over a year ago.

There has been much highlighting of the SFA quotes originating from the Lennon excesses in recent days across forums, Facebook and Twitter.

I canny really understand the animosity and low level sniping directed at David Leggat, a guy whose heart is red, white and blue - and always has been. Sure he might ramble a wee bit (allowances for age please) now & again but he's been bang on the nose with a lot of his forecasts through all this sorry mess - and far ahead of many of the mainstream mhedia.

His predictions have been so good that I seriously worry is that his predictions about Charlie Green are near the mark.

His predictions are made in hindsight.

[boss 1,941]

Loggo reads rm as some poster wrote very sililar a few days ago

He's nicked my stuff a couple of times in the past, although he's welcome to it as I post tosh most of the time.

[Bluepeter9 5,167]

He's nicked my stuff a couple of times in the past, although he's welcome to it as I post tosh most of the time.

:lol: Welcome back GS!!

[delparlane 5,753]

Not a bad pice, although it did raise a couple eyebrows here when he cited Michael Grant as an exception; Mr. Grant has been gleefully sticking the boot into us on a regular basis ever since this whole noxious fankle began.

[samenzi 7]

same old rangers fans full of shite i have 3 books and i think green is a conman what will you being saying if leggo is proved right lets march on hampden on a saturday when no cunt in i was there it was a waste of time get of your arses and do the right thing for boycotting away games that will never happen to many shitbags in the gers support who still live in the f.t.p era while the rest move on. watp

[delparlane 5,753]

same old rangers fans full of shite i have 3 books and i think green is a conman what will you being saying if leggo is proved right lets march on hampden on a saturday when no cunt in i was there it was a waste of time get of your arses and do the right thing for boycotting away games that will never happen to many shitbags in the gers support who still live in the f.t.p era while the rest move on. watp

Sorry, but no one here speaks Mongolian. Punctuation is a brilliant invention - you should really try it sometime (or perhaps lobby to get it taught in your no-mark schools).