The SFA

Yesterday the SFA finally confirmed for the world that they are a shambolic organisation who are not fit for purpose.

Now whether or not Craig Levein should have been sacked is not the point of this article. What I want to focus on is the ineptitude of the SFA and why something must be done about them before our game further sinks into the mire.

Stuart Regan's time in charge has been a spectacular failure. His whole handling of the Rangers debacle should have seen his tenure come to an end. i don't buy into the whole theory that he was Peter Lawell's pick etc and in part think his failures have been as a result of the institutional failure that has been the SFA these last 30 years. Some of the failures though have been his own and his attempts along with Doncaster to bully SFL clubs into putting Rangers into the 1st division, his comments about social unrest and armageddon for Scottish football mark him out as unfit for purpose.

Following on from this he has managed to hang on to his job by his fingertips but has further blotted his copybook by the way the Levein farce has been dealt with. He is the focal point for this decision and he should never had let it drag on so long. What makes it worse though is they decide to break the news on the day that their showpiece competition has it's biggest draw of the saeson.

I might be a bit of an old fashioned football supporter but 3rd round day (now 4th round day) was one of, if not the best days in Scottish football. Before the advent of TV ruining our game all games kicked off at 3pm on a Saturday and the break from the league programme was always something to look forward too. it's hard to put in words how it made you feel but on that day it was like 1st day of the season again but instead all clubs realistically could dream of winning the Scottish Cup.

Yesterday's draw had some crackers and that should have been getting all of the media attention today but instead all of the back pages and media attention is focussed on the Scotland job.

What sort of organisation breaks a story that detracts from its showpiece competition? the sponsors should be raging today with the ineptitude of the SFA.

An organisation that is not fit for purpose. It is not just Regan who has to go but all of its committe members and arachaic structures that are based around self interest. I would name and shame those committe members who were apparently to busy to come to a meeting and had to do it by conference call.

With the Rangers situation we should be on the threshold of a new era, a chance in a lifetime to have a root and branch reform of our game instead of engaging in petty squabbles and maintaining the status quo. Yesterday showed me, finally that the SFA are not fit for purpose and that unless there is real change at the top we face another generation being lost before our game prospers.