GLASGOW (AFP)
Rangers manager Ally McCoist and chief executive Charles Green
were hit with notices of complaint by the Scottish Football
Association on Friday after controversial comments made during
the Scottish club's financial meltdown.
McCoist has allegedly breached disciplinary rules as a result of
comments he made about the SFA's Judicial Panel in April, when he
demanded the panel members be named publicly.
He faces three counts of breaching disciplinary rules for calling
into question the independence of the Judicial Panel that sat in
April to hear a case against Rangers and former owner Craig
Whyte.
Rangers were hit with a 12-month transfer embargo and fined
£160,000 following the hearing into the club's financial
affairs.
Speaking the day after the verdict was delivered, McCoist told
Rangers TV: "I found out the decision last night and I was
shocked and absolutely appalled by the way this supposedly
independent judicial panel was coming down on us in this form.
"I'm a Rangers supporter and the Rangers supporters and the
Scottish public deserve to know who these people are, people who
are working for the SFA.
Green faces a charge of bringing the game into disrepute for
claiming "bigotry" was one of the reasons behind his newly
reformed club were denied entry to the Scottish Premier League
following their liquidation.
Clubs voted against the 'newco' Rangers being admitted to
Scottish football's top flight before Scottish Football League
sides allowed the fallen Glasgow giants to play in the Third
Division, with their first game taking place at Peterhead on
Saturday.
