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Clyde FC statement

Posted on July 14, 2012 by

The Clyde FC website is struggling to cope with the weight of traffic again after it released a statement on yesterday’s events. It took us ten minutes and many reloads to reach the page, so here it is for anyone who can’t get through. All emphasis ours.

“The club chairman attended a very sobering meeting of the SFL today where the 30 clubs voted on resolutions in the manner that they felt were, on balance, for the good of the game. Nobody had arrived at decisions easily and all had been placed in intolerable positions of having to decide without the basic information that would reflect good governance and having to speculate about unresolved matters around sanctions and membership of the SFA that other bodies had so far failed to deal with.

The outcome was never going to be a good one, but it was one of significant unity amongst the clubs, and even where clubs voted differently, it was not a divisive difference of views, everyone understood the complex mix of circumstances facing each club would never deliver unanimity of voting.

We reported this morning prior to the vote of all clubs that “Sevco Scotland Ltd will not be playing in the Third Division in the coming season”. Nothing heard today altered that opinion, in fact, it strengthened it.

For the good of the game we need to see the SFA accept the will of its members, who all voted today, as members of the SFL, in the clear knowledge that the SFA had it in its power to refuse to transfer SFA membership to Sevco Scotland Ltd should the vote support the entry of Sevco Scotland Ltd into SFL3.

We were asked to respect the confidentiality of those presenting today as only that agreement would allow them to be as candid as they were, we cannot therefore share what was said, however Mr Green left the SFL member clubs in no doubt about what he had been told by the SFA.

The SFL saw a level of unity and unselfishness that owes significant credit to the first division clubs who stated their intention to seek a 42 club solution and not to take part in a divisive alternative. This kind of unity if maintained will help deliver the change that the game so badly needs and the first division clubs in particular will merit.

If the SFA now act to support any process to undermine the clear views of the SFL members, who are also members of the SFA, then this club will join others in questioning those in leadership.

Sadly for our game, this saga is not over, teams cannot plan and that includes Rangers, who may yet be denied the opportunity to play football in SFL 3 because it suits the interests of others.”

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Tony Little

Just when I thought there was a light at the end of the tunnel!  If I read this statement correctly, “Sevco Scotland Ltd will not be playing in the Third Division in the coming season”  means what, exactly?  There is still some plot to have a brand new club, which does not have a single day’s accounts, never mind three years, might still get shoehorned into SFL1.  Is the SFA truly mad?
SPL2 is a dead duck IF the SFL clubs remain strong and hold to their integrity – something woefully absent among the SFA leadership (I use the term advisedly).
Will this pathetic saga never end?

jimmyarab

It looks like a total breakdown in trust between the SFL Chairmen and the SFA leadership.
The SFA told the SFL that Sevco ‘wouldn’t play in SFL3’, probably hoping that the SFL Chairmen would think ‘oh well we’d better just put them into SFL1 then’.
Surely Mr Regan will have to consider his position ? Threatening the SFL Chairmen and being told to do one.

Seasick Dave

So, lets say that the nice Mr Regan gets his way and Rangers get shovelled off the pavement back into the SPL, how many games is Lee Wallace going to win on his own?

Bugger (the Panda)

When is UEFA and FIFA going to get engaged with this lots of whores, queers and comic singers who run pro football in Scotland. That is an old Glasgow saying and shpould be read in its contemporanious sense and not as a slur against peoples’s sexuality, chosen profession or theatrical aspirations.

Bugger (the Panda)

When is UEFA and FIFA going to get engaged with this lots of whores, queers and comic singers who run pro football in Scotland. That is an old Glasgow saying and should be read in its contemporanious sense and not as a slur against peoples’s sexuality, chosen profession or theatrical aspirations.

Juteman

Dearie me, i thought we had finally got to the end of this.
The more this carries on, the more i’m convinced there is something worse that someone is trying desperately to keep hidden.

John Böttcher

Alex Thomson over at Channel 4 news has been covering this story for quite a while – some of his blog posts are unbelievable: intimidation from un-named but houshold name sports journalists, entrenched corruption implicating a vast array of people, from police to M.S.P.s – but here’s his take on what happened yesterday (previous blog posts are a must read, even for a not footie fanatic such as myself)

link to blogs.channel4.com

Regards 


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