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Scottish FA statement on Supreme Court ruling
Wednesday, 05 July 2017
The Board of the Scottish FA notes the judgment of the Supreme Court and wishes to clarify the implications of this final legal decision from a football regulatory perspective.
In light of the Inner House of the Court of Session decision, the Board of the Scottish FA sought external senior counsel opinion to ensure a robust and independent consideration of all implications of today’s judgment.
The Board received written advice from Senior Counsel, amplified when the QC attended a full meeting of the Board to discuss his conclusions.
Specifically, Senior Counsel was asked to anticipate whether a determination in favour of HMRC, as announced today, could imply that there had been a breach of the Scottish FA’s Disciplinary Rules as they applied at the time of the EBT payments.
The clear opinion of Senior Counsel is that there is a very limited chance of the Scottish FA succeeding in relation to any complaint regarding this matter and that, even if successful, any sanctions available to a Judicial Panel would also be limited in their scope.
Accordingly, having had time to consider the opinion from Senior Counsel, and having examined the judgment of the UK Supreme Court, the Board has determined that no further disciplinary action should be taken by the Scottish FA at this time.
http://www.scottishfa.co.uk/scottish...wsCategoryID=1
Well reading that statement from the SFA you have to wonder what was the question or questions which they asked. The statement is suitably vague and pretty much a whitewash. I had thought that the fact that they failed to disclose the side letters to the SFA which formed part of the player's contracts was a breach of the rules. Why can't they take action on that point alone ?
Ev n given the complete corruption of the SFA, I am still completely gobsmacked by their statement. They have basically ignored the highest court in the land and protected their own beloved Rangers.
The UK Supreme Court can find fault, but the SFA can't, un****ingbelievable.
The SFA could have at least thought about it for a few days, but no, they couldn't wait to help out their beloved club.
Why do people care what the SFA say or do?
The SFA have no right to do anything of any real consequence at this time. Only the SPFL can take any action on titles won as a consequence of the EBT's being used to get a sporting advantage.
And there we go again, your now linking the SFA with providing the license, to the New Club to play in Europe with the outcome of the Big Tax case on the Old Club.
Look the point is if we want the right action to be taken, we have to find the right people to put the pressure on to get those actions taken, period.
If we want domestic titles stripped, then it is the SPFL
If we want Scottish Cups stripped, it is the SFA
If we want League Cups Stripped, then **** knows who, because the SPFL, will say it is not them and the SFL is no more
If you want Rangers banned from Europe, then that is UEFA, not sure what your reasons would be? The SFA granted a License to Sevco, and as much as I hate them, Sevco did not break "their rules about disclosure of contracts".