Dave Cormack has finally realised that Scottish football has a different set of rules in place, giving the Ibrox Tribute Act special status.
The SPL and SFA signed up to the Five Way Agreement in 2012 with all clubs contacted as Neil Doncaster pushed ahead with the deal to try and retain the O** F*** brand essential to his bonus prospects.
At the same time Peter Lawwell was helping the SPL chief negotiate a new television contract with Sky Sports. The previous one was dependent on four O** F*** derby matches.
All of a sudden there could be no challenging of SFA and SPL decisions such as the circumstances that granted Rangers a UEFA licence in 2011. Rod Petrie and Andrew Dickson remain in office with influence inside Hampden.
The Ibrox Tribute Act are unpunishable. Anyone doubting that was given a reminder when they opted out of the cinch sponsorship deal, the SPFL proved to be toothless with the 11 other Premiership clubs providing additional branding to cinch while James Bisgrove signed up a shirt sleeve sponsor and had additional boardings to sell at Ibrox.
The latest issue to suffer the Ibrox veto is a new television contract with Sky Sport, writing on the Aberdeen website Cormack pleads:
Once that plan has been developed and agreed, the SPFL should share the key pillars that will get us there, and ongoing updates on progress. The Innovation and Strategy Group would continue to provide input, guidance, and support to the executive in pursuit of achieving these goals.
We have so much to get on with as a league. What we need is to get this Sky deal concluded and to get the never-ending cinch dispute behind us. We can then focus all our energies tackling the other critical issues and opportunities we face to improve our game and income.
From my perspective we’re just kicking off. Let’s see where these initiatives to grow our income take us before we give ten reasons why every single initiative won’t work.
Until the Five Way Agreement of 2012 is published and voted down Scottish football will be run for the needs and demands of one club/company.
At the Celtic AGM in November 2019 Peter Lawwell laughed when asked if anyone at Celtic had been involved in drawing up the Five Way Agreement, adding that he hadn’t eve seen in. Fifteen months later Lawwell announced that he was stepping down as CEO.
Lawwell lied.
Get the PONCE across the water to use his so called journalists instincts and ask for Freedom Information Act,he sees it then he publishes it for all to see.
Then we will know whose GRUBBY hands have on it for certain.
Could you publish it on this site?
Editor: There were a few drafts, no one quite knows the final production but it conveniently kicks any dispute over to CAS which is a route that the SFA will never take so The Tribute Act know that they can pull stunts like cinch fall out with zero consequences. The Res 12 site has lots of related documentation.
https://res12.uk/
I got a copy from the website ‘scribd’ which I’m fairly confident is the final draft as it also had the email sent to all clubs (and others) and was sent on Thursday 26th July 2012, the day before the 5-Way (6 if you count Celtic PLC and you should) was agreed. NB Agreement was assumed if you did not reply. Peter T Lawwell and Eric Riley were each sent one. As there were no dissenters, it went through and allowed Sevco Scotland Limited, which later changed its name to The Rangers Football Club Limited, to play the fixture with Brechin on 29th July.
If it was as simple as a FOI request this would have been ‘outed’ as it should have been years ago. The SFA and SPFL are NOT (currently at least) subject to the FOI.
No private company is subject to it otherwise competitors could request sensitive commercial information.
Public bodies are another thing entirely. Unfortunately the SFA is a ’ Private Ltd Company’. Very private in fact.
Admittance to its ‘ hallowed halls’ is by invitation. Requiring only the appropriate ‘knuckle shuffling’ handshake and declaring how ‘ Old is yer Granny’, nudge, nudge.