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SFA football newsThe SFA have used their twitter account to acknowledge that they have received a membership application from Sevco Scotland.

Just after 7pm tonight a tweet read: “We have received, via our lawyers, Sevco Scotland info pack relevant to membership application. It will be reviewed in early course.”

It’s unclear why an organisation which enjoyed a fortnight’s break over Christmas and New Year remained open for business at 7pm on a Friday evening during the close season.

In normal circumstances a new application requires to be accompanied by three years of audited accounts but over the last year the SFA have been found wanting even under Stewart Regan’s born-again regime of accountability.

Rangers repeatedly ignored providing documentation declaring that Craig Whyte hadn’t been banned from holding a directorship while there seems definite grounds for concern about the licence granted for last season which saw the Ibrox club take part in both the Champions League and Europa League before going into administration in February.

Despite having their own copies of player contracts the SFA were unable to gain the co-operation of Duff and Phelps when it came to investigating claims that Rangers players received undeclared payments for more than a decade.

With the start of the SFL season just four weeks away it’s unlikely that the SFA will be able to look into Green’s application in enough detail to ensure that his club will remain a going concern.

Former defender John Brown has openly questioned the ownership of Ibrox and Murray Park with Green unable to produce the title deeds for either property.

Just 13 players turned up for pre-season training yesterday which included three who are out of contract and using Murray Park to work on their fitness.

The Scottish football public will be looking on closely as President Campbell Ogilvie and his team pour over the application from Sevco for SFA membership.

If Sevco are accepted they will then have to apply to join a league that has already published fixtures for the season ahead with supporters purchasing season ticket for fixtures that will need to be altered to accommodate Sevco Scotland.

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  • Willaim McNulty says:

    Joe, just wanted to say that your comments are always a great read.

    You have the ability to cut through the verbiage, and of course the lies, presented by the MSM regarding Oldco and Newco over Govan way – not the least of these being the treatment of both enterprises as being the same entity – and get to the kernel of the situation.

    The points you make are always informative, lucid and straight to the point. Keep up the good work.

  • sands1888 says:

    Are you kidding joe?

    They will be in that office day and night, all hands on deck. Noone leaves until they get things sorted to let the new manky mob, with no registered accounts, players, money, into the cosy setup we know they are all breaking there backs for.

    Surely there is grounds for the club or even the supporters to bring legal advise in to either put an end to it.

    Or even just to make people outside this horrible corrupt footballing backwater aware of what we are up against and have been for the last century plus.

    It’s time for fifa uefa, ross kemp if needs be

  • Sean says:

    I can understand why our club has stayed silent over the shambles that this debacle has become,but if triggers broom FC get their cheating toes into the first division I sincerely hope Peter lawwell lobbies uefa/FIFA with a full dossier of this distasteful unlawful(both in a sporting and legal context) and let’s get out of this stinking cesspit of a country and start again ourselves…

    • Sean

      The wise man holds his own council. It is essential to appreciate that nothing has officially been agreed.

      It would be senseless for Celtic to enter the fray and risk being wounded or exterminated before its challenge even got under way.

      I am absolutely convinced that P.L. under council has an ongoing dossier that will be produced in the highest footballing quarters when the time comes.

      I am also convinced that Dermot Desmond is not the sort of mellow fellow who will sit back with a pint of the black stuff and watch the ‘eejits’ walk all over his football club.

      Be patient, the general waits to see if the battle is necessary to win the war. Sometimes letting others do your fighting not only reserves your strength but provides a undepleted force for future engagements.

      If needed, Celtic will charge into the breech, my friend, with more intensity than you can imagine. What was it they used to always say in the war movies – the waiting’s the hard part.

      • Sean says:

        I agree completely,that was my point that once the deed had been done and rubber-stamped,then and only then should our club enter the fray,and I’m pretty sure you’re correct in your assertion that our owner and our CEO have a dossier on every underhand and crooked manoeuvre instigated by the SFA/SPL cartel… Let’s hope so.

      • paranoidandroid says:

        I don’t know. I think it’s about time the board made it clear whose side it’s on. Do they, like the fans, want integrity more than they want the Glasgow derby money? For all we know, they could be supporting the newco.

        And judging by the websites yesterday, a lot of Celtic fans are thinking of giving up football completely if sevco go straight into the SPL or SFL 1: if these biased cretins at the SFA are successful in their cheating. The Celtic fans need leadership. The club must provide it, now.

        • I will simply raise one question. Leadership in what? At the present time there is no definitive goal to aim for that requires any guidance or direction. I do sense there most certainly will be and perhaps fairly soon. At that point you will need to shout very hard for leadership if you wish to be heard above me. Let us hope it does not require this action and that the senseless among the football authorities see sense and for once in their long tarnished history do the right thing.

          H H

  • Jack says:

    about the 3 years of accounts thing, Ive been led to believe you can still get accepted into league as provisional member but you are not allowed to vote in first 3 years

    anyone know about this?

  • bhoylondon67 says:

    Sevco haven’t submitted an “application”, they have got their lawyers to give the SFA an Info Pack relevant to a Membership Application. They have missed the deadline. Obviously they have an infinite extension as the rules don’t apply to any of the RFC spin offs, just as they didn’t apply to RFC.

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