Former SFA Chief Executive Gordon Smith has declared himself bankrupt with debts of £644,411.
Smith was CE of the SFA for three years, stepping down in 2010 before returning to football as part of Craig Whyte’s Ibrox dream team in 2011 before being one of two redundancies when the club went into administration.
News of Smith’s bankruptcy will shock Scottish football where he had cultivated the image of being a successful businessman and media pundit. Following his playing days he set up a successful football agency with Kenny Miller one of his top clients taking the Scotland striker from Hibs to Rangers then on to Wolves.
Smith worked extensively for the BBC before switching to the SFA in 2007 where he outlined his ambitions showing his trademark confidence.
He said: “I didn’t have to take this job on. I am doing it on the basis that I feel very privileged to be offered, but even to be approached was fantastic. “I’m delighted and honoured that I’ve been given this job. It’s a big position, I’m a patriotic Scot and I want to see Scottish football flourish.”
Smith’s time at the SFA was highlighted by the disastrous appointment of George Burley, the boozegate controversy involving Barry Ferguson and the failure of the SFA to properly licence clubs leading to the administration and liquidation of Rangers.
Ironically Smith returned to football at Ibrox where he is best remembered for his attempts to cultivate the Indian and Brazilian markets before being made redundant. Smith has been a regular pundit for ESPN this season but with the US-based station scaling down their operations it’s likely that Smith will return to BBC Radio Scotland.
According to today’s report in the Daily Record Smith applied for bankruptcy last December and has resigned from all his company directorships.
Should have spent less on his hair weave & fake tan! No sympathy!
Is it too late for him to apply for an EBT?
Karma…
What a shame, another successful Scottish business man goes down the tubes, maybe the common denominater in all this is RANGERS, first Murray, then whyte now Smith, they really are that toxic, does he get tae keep all his history when he gets liquidated, KARMA’S found another one… Hail hail, 125 YEARS OF UNBROKEN HISTORY+
Gordon Smith is indeed a true Rangers man. Spent money he didn’t have and ended up shafting creditors. He’s followed his beloved “club” down the same lavvy.
Byebye wont be missed
will he come back as “the gordon smith”, “gordon smith international” or “gordon smith 5088”?
Couldna’e happen tae a nicer bloke….
He was same holiday hotel as my mate and I a few years ago…
Proud to say…we never spoke to the git….
Can’t stand him. He’s a fake of a man & arrogant to the core.
Still I don’t take any satisfaction from his woes.
news has it greggs are next.
apparently they let mc’coist and jabba run up a tab.HH
he was asked ” how WOULD you attribute your financial downfall and whom could you blame for your disaster in a personal sense” ? “dead easy” said the sleekit gordon, “CATHOLIC SCHOOLS”
Meant to say as well…..
This git “proudly” announced many years ago to the slabbering Press…..
“Once a Ranger…always a Ranger”…..
That would tie in wi’ him gettin’ the job he should never have gotten.
Are we seeing the first Ranjurs man to go the old “I’ve got no money” before the taxman imminently calls for payment of the EBTs? (can’t remember if he had one though but very suspicious nonetheless)
Complete fanny
The thinking man’s bigot. Wear a suit and tie and sound plausible. However, when you actually listened to what he was saying he was clearly just orange through and through – a product of his environment, playing at a club that refused to sign Catholics, part of the Scottish media establishment (he’ll walk straight into a BBC job) and then the SFA. Is anyone surprised about his vocal hatred of Catholic schools? His CV is a story of a guy in a bigot bubble where his twisted view was the norm.
Horrible fellow.
Couldnt have hapened to a more deserving piece of hun shit, dirty sleekit rodent, a waste of good organs, its there way they are the lowest form of human
the guy will have plenty salted away
It could not happen to a nicer Bigot hope his life goes down the toilet The ant Catholic shit
Wasn’t he Paul Lambert’s agent as well?
How does bankruptcy work if you’re in posession of an EBT?
Just askinlike.
More financial mismanagement,,, living life high on the hog and cant pay the bills,,,, he was full of it. No sympathy . Will he come back as The Gordon Smith ?