Regan defends President Ogilvie

Stewart Regan has launched a strong defence of Campbell Ogilvie despite the role of the SFA President in the downfall of Rangers.

Ogilvie was an Ibrox director for five of the years during which the club were found guilty of failing to disclose payments made to players through the EBT scheme in their contracts lodged with the SFA and SPL.

The football club, which is now in liquidation, were fined £250,000 for those offences in midweek.

Ogilvie has cultivated a reputation for his skills as an administrator, as well as being a real top bloke and very nice guy, despite being a director with responsibilities to shareholders and an office holder of various SFA and SPL committees.

Most people would come to the conclusion that Ogilvie was either heavily involved in the non-disclosure or failing to do his duties as a director but Regan takes another view despite the facts about his president being laid bare in the Nimmo Smith report.

“Yes he was a director of the organisation but he was a director of an organisation effectively run and operated by one man,” Regan claimed.

“Campbell Ogilvie from the outset has been upfront, he’s been transparent, he’s put his cards on the table to the board and made it very clear what his role was.

“He was the only member of the old regime that put himself forward to be interviewed by Lord Nimmo Smith and that says a lot about Cambell Ogilvie as a person.”

Regan predictably, in a pre-recorded interview with Radio Scotland, expressed the wish that Scottish football can now move on and work together for the greater good.

Until Regan, Ogilvie and Neil Doncaster move on it’s highly unlikely that the Scottish game will move on with their lack of leadership and failure to apply the rules creating most of the unrest among supporters throughout the game.

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