Stewart Regan’s departure from the SFA was celebrated across the internet but leaves as many questions as it answers.
The gormless Englishman contributed nothing whatsoever to Scottish football while draining £300,000 plus a year while abandoning the rules at every turn to chase commercial concerns at every opportunity.
Turnbull Hutton called Regan out in the summer of 2012 but it took almost six years before he decided of his own accord to move on.
Let’s enjoy this brief golden era between the resignation of Stewart Regan and the inevitable disappointment of finding out who’s going to replace him.
— Scottish Comedy FC (@ScotComFC) February 1, 2018
He should have been sacked a long time ago but was kept in a job by a compliant SMSM. The rest of his cohorts at a corrupt SFA should follow
— Tam (@StPatsday1956) February 1, 2018
A total disaster I won’t say complete disaster as we had Gordon Smith for a time before him but boy the SFA can pick them
— Mark Cook (@MarkCoo32232915) February 1, 2018
Glad he’s gone Joe but he should have been held to account long ago and forced to sort the mess he allowed to fester under his tenure.
— Martin Sweeney (@MacSuibhne69) February 1, 2018
Stewart Regan gone finally. Six years too late after his Armageddon pish
— McAngry (@mcangry) February 1, 2018
Stewart Regan is far from the only problem at the @ScottishFA. It is mired in failure and its entire administrative committee treated with deep suspicion by fans. His should be the first, but not the last head to roll. #regimechange
— Archie MacKay (@paperbhoy) February 1, 2018
Stewart Regan has Resigned!!!!!
Years too late!!!!!!
Thanks for nothing.
— craig duncan (@craigd1287) February 1, 2018
Armageddon looming if you ask me. Scottish Football needs a strong Stewart Regan.
— Fundily Mundelly (@FundilyMundelly) February 1, 2018
Stewart Regan has left us with a mess to clear up. No national manager, no decision on national stadium. We really need radical change with an implementable vision. Not a media friendly jobs for the boys with more of the same.
— Algerian_Goalie (@Algerian_Goalie) February 1, 2018
Stewart Regan’s record over 8 years is appalling. Nearly getting football up here stopped during a referee strike, offering Michael O’Neill less money than he was on at NI to replace Strachan and of course predicting ‘social unrest’ if Rangers were voted into the bottom tier…..
— David Meikle (@DavidJMeikle) February 1, 2018
Hope Stewart Regan fell down all the stairs at Hampden when he walked out
— Saul Anderson (@SaulAnderson1) February 1, 2018
I would start a thread of the positive things that Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster have done whilst being with the SFA, but let’s be honest about it, I would be scraping at the bottom of a barrel. Regan has overseen seven years of failure. The latest managerial fiasco…
— D I ŠT E F A N O ???????? (@MrStefanCarlin) February 1, 2018
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Regan promised accountability and transparency but delivered neither as he was dragged in willingly to the old boys network that promotes folk like Jack McGinn, Campbell Ogilvie, George Peat and Alan McRae as president.
Regan’s greatest crime against the game was the Five Way Agreement of 2012 where he teamed up with Charles Green to create a licence to play football out of Ibrox.
The big handed Yorkshireman was gone within a year with a barrow-load of cash as Scottish football paid the price for the notion that the game is utterly worthless without it’s cherished Old Firm rivalry.
Prior to the Five Way Agreement Regan allowed Rangers (IL) a licence to play in UEFA competition in 2011/12 when they had outstanding and overdue payments owed to HMRC.
More recently the former Yorkshire County Cricket chief arranged a bizarre international trip to Mexico and Peru that has been attacked by almost everyone at Celtic.
As he counts his pay off it can only be hoped that Regan is one day called to account for his decisions against Scottish football. If Regan isn’t forced to explain his decision making and deflection of the truth then the Scottish game isn’t worth a light.
The first tasks of his successor must be to cancel the mid summer jolly to Mexico and Peru followed by an open and transparent review of every rule breach from within over the last decade as the SFA did everything possible to support top flight football from Ibrox clubs.
The real tragedy is that Regan was able to resign and that no club ever put forward a vote of no confidence in their chief executive.