According to a report in the Daily Record the club from Ibrox are gunning for Stewart Regan with the integrity of the SFA chief executive at the heart of the matter!
That’s the same Stewart Regan who approved the 2011 licence for Rangers (IL) to play in UEFA competitions to the detriment of every club in Scotland.
The Stewart Regan that was behind the Five Way Agreement to parachute the Sevco club into SFA membership and a place in the Scottish Football League.
And the same chief executive that has made no move to install financial fair play, allows a club to continue without sanctions despite having a going concern warning in their accounts and who hasn’t came up with a single punishment for the continued anti-catholic singing outlawed by UEFA in 2006.
The issue causing grief between Ibrox and Hampden appears to be Regan calling off a meeting with Ibrox chief Stewart Robertson to discuss the Bowen Report into the aftermath of the Scottish Cup Final in May.
According to the newspaper: ‘Record Sport, following up on the initial Rangers statement, contacted the SFA last Wednesday to ask if the Ibrox club had requested a meeting, as they promised and, if so, when it would take place.
‘Regan confirmed to us a meeting with McGlennan and Bowen was impossible, but he would be happy to meet Robertson at an “appropriate” time and ideally when the independent process had been completed.
‘In a call to us the following day he added: “The fact of the matter is, if that meeting is positioned as a formal meeting then clearly it’s not right to be doing it before the process is played out.’
Perhaps more questionable would be the alleged meeting between Regan, Craig Whyte and Campbell Ogilvie in December 2011 to discuss how to manage the administration of the Ibrox club. Was this meeting minuted with details passed on to SFA committees?
Also from the Charlotte Fakes twitter account there is an email exchange in how to handle the question of the 2011 UEFA licence when there was an unpaid and overdue tax bill on 30 June 2011 followed by a visit from Sheriff Officers to Ibrox on 10 August 2011.
If the licence rules had been applied Celtic would have entered the Champions League qualifiers with access to the group phase giving every top flight club a £100,000 windfall while group stage qualification would have brought in an additional £20m to the Scottish game. In 2012 and 2013 Celtic qualified for the Champions League group phase.
After securing regime change with Dave King in March 2015 Paul Murray praised the Daily Record while over turning a two week stadium ban.
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