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Heavily conflicted Ogilvie accuses Celtic in Rory Bremner farce

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campbell ogilvieAfter years of hiding in the bunker at Hampden heavily conflicted SFA President Campbell Ogilvie has found his voice to criticise the Rory Bremner comment made by Peter Lawwell at last week’s Celtic AGM.

Ogilvie, a former director of Rangers (In Liquidation), beneficiary of the EBT Scheme and architect of the Discount Option Scheme, known as the ‘wee tax case’ decided to leap on the favoured bandwagon of comparing Sevco and Celtic as two sides of the same coin.

It seems that the president of the SFA has no concept of liquidation despite helping Rangers on that path under the disastrous leadership of Dave Murray before switching to Hearts where Vladimir Romanov took the Edinburgh institution into administration with liquidation a near certainty.

Having kept his thoughts to himself throughout the administration and liquidation of his beloved Rangers Ogilvie roared into action tonight on the SFA website.

He said:  “This week, the Scottish FA’s Compliance Officer has reviewed comments made by the Celtic Chief Executive, Peter Lawwell, at the club’s Annual General Meeting, after receiving an official letter of complaint from Rangers Football Club.

“The Compliance Officer has informed both clubs that there is no actionable breach of the rules. None the less, I am compelled to convey my disappointment that we find ourselves in this position, as a result of an apparent erosion of mutual respect between two of our oldest rivals.

“At a time when Scottish football faces challenges on many fronts, it is incumbent on our biggest clubs to set the highest standards. In this regard both the comments made, and the subsequent time, effort and resource imposed on our Compliance Officer to deal with the complaint, were wholly unnecessary.”

For the benefit of Ogilvie Celtic and the current club playing out of Ibrox are not sporting rivals- they have never played at a senior level.

Once he gets to grips with the reality that football merit is decided on the pitch rather than by denying HMRC money in order to attract a better standard of player Ogilvie will have a chance of leading Scottish football forward from the self inflicted ‘challenges on many fronts.

The Rangers Ogilvie remembers, will be the club of Murray and Donald Findlay, Dick Advocaat, Alex McLeish, Tore Andre Flo and Christian Nerlinger.

As a Rangers (In Liquidation) director he sat at the top table of various AGM’s as Findlay played to the gallery with quips about Celtic as they struggled financially while paying PAYE and National Insurance for the good of the country. And who will ever forget Murray’s claim that for every fiver Celtic spend Rangers will spend ten- the economics that led to Whyte and liquidation.

That Rangers died a death in June 2012 as the fans sat on their hands and blue nosed billionaires looked the other way when it came to putting their hands in their pockets to save their beloved institution.

As he thumbs through the rule book at Hampden and plots his next junket, probably to the World Cup draw in Brazil next month, Ogilvie ought to give some thought to the many clubs throughout Scotland that live within their means and pay their way.

Perhaps publishing the highly secretive ‘Five Way Agreement’ that fast tracked Sevco into senior football would give Ogilvie and his colleagues at the SFA the platform to meet the current challenges facing the game.

Claims that Celtic and the current club from Ibrox are ‘two of our oldest rivals” is as accurate as the accounts Ogilvie used to sign of as a Rangers (In Liquidation) director during the glory days of Murray.

Those days are over, hopefully Ogilvie’s place on the gravy train funded by Celtic are also about to come to a shuddering halt.

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  • Andy says:

    “The effort and resource imposed on our compliant officer to deal with the complaint”

    How much effort does it take to open a letter read it laugh then toss it in the bin

  • jas says:

    You couldnae burn this teflon, bulletproof chancer’s neck with a blowtorch.

  • neil says:

    How do we force ogilvie out?

    • peter says:

      Well said Joe.

      Regan, ogilvie and the SFA are not fit for purpose, Peter Lawwell should resign from sfa on this principle.

      we can see ogilvie’s rancid hands all over this 5 way agreement.

      He calls the huns rfc when.it is rifc.

      oldest ?? rivals – REALLY.

      he is putting it out their that this is the same club SHITE.

      the sooner we try and get ourselves out of scottish football,the BETTER.

  • paul McCann says:

    yes it takes time to laugh at sevco and throw it into the bin

  • mark McCracken says:

    I dont remember the sfa commenting on things such as the price of a meal at ibrox not so long ago. What did it come to again?

  • Vinny says:

    I can see where Ogilvie is coming from. He said the huns wasted their time, and Lawell shouldnt be making jokes. From a Celtic persoective it was calculated from PL. Took away a bit from the living wage discussion didnt it? He doesn’t need to take childish digs at sevco to kiss Celtic fans arse, get us a fecking striker Peter!

  • luke says:

    we need to do much more to get this guy out.

  • tvsteevee says:

    Why a NEW third tier club and its supporters are interested in the AGM of a top flight (Champions League playing) team is beyond comprehension..

    Surely they should be concentrating on playing the next team of butchers, bakers , joiners etc.. ? that is put out in front of them?

  • Wullie Broon says:

    Well said Joe, All I can add is that I think we have now got to the point of no return. Football supporters outside Sevco have had enough of this circus. It’s extremely damaging to our game, especially at a time were it looks like it’s finally on the up both domestically and Internationally.

    HH

  • Shamrock hoops says:

    Fuck the GHA

  • paulo says:

    All blust
    They wouldn’t dare engage with peter lawell …
    THAT is the reason why no further action will be made …
    If it were to be taken further Celtic would challenge it in a court if law, UEFA and FIFA
    And expose the of the new clubs attempts to inherit a now defunct clubs history ….imo
    It’s a farce and I would love to find out the truth

    • paranoidandroid says:

      Exactly, the SFA would never open that can of worms.

    • Andybhoy says:

      A few questions Peter Lawell could ask Ogilvie that would probably make his head explode if he tried to answer.

      If it is true that only the Rangers company was liquidated and not Rangers Football Club, then why were Rangers Football Club required to transfer their SFA *CLUB* membership? If the club and company are two separate entities as they claim and the club did in fact survive liquidation then why was a transfer of SFA *CLUB* membership necessary?

      Surely if they were still the same club there would have been no need to transfer their SFA *CLUB* membership as they would in effect be transferring said membership to themselves would they not?

      If Rangers Football Club did in fact transfer their SFA *CLUB* membership, who exactly did they transfer said membership to?

      I would love to see Ogilvie try to answer these questions but the most likely outcome of that scenario would see him curl up into the foetal position and cry uncontrollably, which granted would also be equally hilarious.

      Hail Hail.

  • Santa says:

    So 22th of November 2013 the SFA confirm The Rangers are not the same club as Rangers FC in liquidation. Thank you Peter. Best AGM yet.

  • Joe says:

    “No rules have been broken” but let’s try to make the Catholic founded club look at fault again!

  • Joe says:

    How can a cheat like ogilvie say anything about Lawwell stating a fact?

  • PaulThePostie says:

    My whiskeys older than The rangers, I’ll drink to that. Cheers
    Hail Hail

  • THE WALKING DEAD says:

    The gall of this guy to finally raise his head is astonishing. Having sat back saying nothing for 2 years he is in no position to be making any sort of comment. We need to push to get him OUT.

  • daviebhoy says:

    Joe your doing a sterling job!

  • drawkcab says:

    What do you think annoys them more.

    The fact they are in the grubber

    OR

    The fact that we are all laughing at them.

    Haw haw haw.

    • vino says:

      Very good comments,here here. Feck the zombies a bunch of cheats. HAIL HAIL THE CELTIC, COME ON THE HOOPS.

  • seaney67 says:

    That man mentioning high standards and good of the game sweet feck .What a brass neck. It must be a gene unique to the Orc’s .We won’t be lectured to by crooks. Thieves.Tax dodger’s.Cheats. And especially zombies.

    • paranoidandroid says:

      Too right! Scottish football would have been dead a long time ago without Celtic. And his crowd- deadco and now sevco- have always made it worse.

  • rikki71 says:

    Celtic should report the biased corrupt sfa to uefa , even if all Scottish clubs get a 5 year ban due to this spineless and incompetent outfit at least the truth will come out that rangers are dead and the zombie tribute act with a fat whispering coward of a manager are a new club , then sue the sfa for loss of earnings , then see what their view point is

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