FARE – Fare Are Rangers Enemies – A Summary

FARE – Fare Are Rangers Enemies – A Summary

As more and more evidence emerges of the sinister nature of the workings of the group who successfully reported Rangers for alleged sectarian chanting twice, I feel it my duty to summarise in one place and in one article, exactly why FARE are not fit for purpose, and why FARE as an organisation should be suspended from all activity involving Rangers and Celtic Football clubs with immediate effect.

What follows is a summary of the findings against FARE by investigative Journalist David Leggat, and some communications between users of rangersmedia.com, thebluenose.co.uk, vanguardbears.co.uk and the editor and users of followfollow.com and FARE.

Firstly, with regards to the links of FARE Chief Piara Power to Celtic Football Club.
On the 15th April 2011 a poster the bluenose.co.uk, a website or the Rangers Supporters Assembly posted some very interesting information.

http://www.thebluenose.co.uk/index.php?option=com_kunena&Itemid=54&func=view&catid=5&id=116041


http://www.milestonegroup.co.uk/licence-agreement-issue-of-equity--total-voting-rights-08-april-2011.html


“Licence Agreement, Issue of Equity & Total Voting Rights
Milestone Group Plc

(“Milestone” or the “Company”)

Licence agreement with BGP Global Services Limited and launch of OnSide

AIM quoted Milestone Group PLC (AIM: MSG), the digital solutions provider, announces that it has signed an agreement with BGP Global Services Limited (“BGP”) for the exclusive licence of its Facilitated Electronic Data System (“FEDS”) within UK community sports programmes (the “Licence”).

BGP will issue a perpetual licence of FEDS, an innovative and bespoke web application that can be currently run on portable networked computer systems, to OnSide Limited (“OnSide”), a newly incorporated Company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Milestone, for use in the UK community sporting sector, initially to be launched in football, but to be extended to cover other community sports.

……..

Paul Elliott MBE, the former Chelsea and Celtic player, Piara Powar, the Executive Director of FARE (Football Against Racism in Europe), and Bob Quick, the former Metropolitan Police Assistant Commissioner, will be the ambassadors for OnSide.

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Deborah White, CEO of Milestone, commented:

“The creation of OnSide through the relationship between Milestone and BGP will bring together state of the art software and our strong skill set in mobile devices to deliver a revolutionary platform for sporting coaches throughout all sports and communities. OnSide will dramatically reduce the costs associated with sports coaching and create a safer environment for sports to take place. I am grateful to Paul Elliott, Piara Powar and Bob Quick for the passion and dedication they have given to this new venture and look forward to working with BGP going forward.”

So far as the Company is aware and subject to any new notifications received, the following persons will have a notifiable interest in the issued share capital of Milestone following this issue of Ordinary Shares:

Current percentage holding Resultant percentage holding

Deborah Jane White 34,883,774 (15.21%) 34,883,774 (14.63%)

HBS 049 Limited 30,000,000 (13.08%) 30,000,000 (12.58%)

Cormac Crawford 18,954,772 (8.26%) 18,954,772 (7.95%)

Brett J. Desmond (all held by
Aurum Nominees Ltd) 15,729,204 (6.86%) 15,729,204 (6.60%)

Martin King 13,667,049 (5.96%) 13,667,049 (5.73%)

BGP Global Services - 9,090,909 (3.81%)

Lynchwood Nominees Ltd 9,083,489 (3.96%) 9,083,489 (3.81%)

For further information, please contact:

Milestone Group Plc
Deborah White, Chief Executive Tel: 020 7929 7826

Strand Hanson Limited, NOMAD
Richard Tulloch / David Altberg Tel: 020 7409 3494

Hybridan LLP, Broker
Claire Louise Noyce Tel: 020 7947 4350

College Hill, PR
Jamie Ramsay Tel: 020 7457 2020

David Leggat reported this on the 23rd June 2011 when the report started reaching a wider audience.

http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/2011/06/fares-piara-powar-and-celtic-exclusive.html

What the user on the bluenose didn’t mention, and what Leggat didn’t mention is that the firm named against Brett J Desmond in the Milestone announcement “Aurum Nominees Ltd” isn’t the only link to Brett Desmond’s shares in Milestone.
These shares are owned by IIU Nominees Limited

http://www.milestonegroup.co.uk/issue-of-equity-and-total-voting-rights-25-nov-2010.html

“MILESTONE GROUP PLC
(“Milestone” or the “Company”)

Issue of Equity
AIM quoted Milestone Group PLC (AIM:MSG), the digital solutions and technology agency, announces that it has agreed to issue 24,408,061 ordinary shares of 0.1 pence each in the capital of the Company (“Ordinary Shares”), at a price of 1.13 pence per Ordinary Share, raising £275,811.07. Of the Ordinary Shares being issued, 15,929,204 Ordinary Shares are being issued to IIU Nominees Limited on behalf of Brett J. Desmond, representing 9.41 per cent. of the enlarged issued share capital and 5,309,735 Ordinary Shares are being issued to Bryan Lynam, representing 3.14 per cent. of the enlarged issued share capital.”

This is where it get’s really interesting.

The board of IIU Nominees Limited is as follows

IIU NOMINEES LIMITED
R/O Address : Ifsc House Registered No : IE241141
Custom House Quay Legal Form : Private Limited
Dublin 1
Co. Dublin

Current directors
1. Mr B. O'Sullivan Brian 11/08/1963 Director

2. Mr D. Desmond Dermot 14/08/1950 Director

3. Mr J. Bateson John 8/07/1963 Director

4. Mr M. Walsh Michael 2/10/1951 Director

5. Mr N. O'Dwyer Noel 14/01/1971 Company Secretary

So, the link between FARE’s Piara Power and Celtic Football Club is even stronger than first imagined.

Which brings me nicely on to the latest revelations on FARE.

2 days ago, 4 Rangers fans who had reported Celtic for Sectarian Singing in an SPL Match via the FARE reporting form were surprised to find letters to their home from Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell.

One fan posted a scan of said letter to Rangers Media, who subsequently put on the front page of their site. The scan also appeared on the Vanguard Bears and Follow Follow forums.

The recipient of said letter was rather alarmed that their personal details including their home address, home phone number and mobile phone numbers had been passed on to a third party or parties without their consent.

What happened then was startling. the Editor of Follow Follow, Mark Dingwall sent a brief and to the point email to FARE.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Dingwall [mailto:byerley_turk@cqm.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 2:07 PM
To: info@farenet.org
Subject:

Hello,

Called the Kick It Out office and they gave me this email address to
write to.

I edit a Rangers fans messageboard. www.followfollow.com

Today I had two users say that they had written to FARE to lodge
complaints about the behaviour at the end of season Hearts v Celtic
match. They both said that today they had received letters
concerning their FARE complaints from the Chief Executive of Celtic
Football Club. One of them posted a graphic file of the letter.

Would it be possible for you to confirm that the this is indeed how
the complaints were handled as some fans are skeptical about it.

Yours faithfully,

MARK DINGWALL

I think even he was surprised at the quick response

From: info@farenet.org
Subject: RE:
Date: 29 June 2011 14:20:48 BDT
To: byerley_turk@cqm.co.uk
Reply-To: info@farenet.org

Dear Mark,

Thank you for your email.

We received many complaints about Celtic FC earlier this year. We informed
the club and the SFA about this and asked them to reply directly to those
who had complained as FARE's specific focus is to look at issues that arise
within the international arena, in matches covered by UEFA or FIFA.

Kind regards

FARE PO Box 67536 London EC2P 2HY UK
www.farenet.org

If you think I deleted the respondent from the reply to Mr Dingwall, you’d be wrong.
They never put their name to the email.

The topic was again picked up on Leggat’s blog

http://leggoland2.blogspot.com/2011/06/fare-face-prosecution-threat.html

It’s all there in black and white.

To Summarise, FARE, or an agent of FARE advised Celtic Football club of the private details of Rangers fans who had complained about Sectarian Singing by the Celtic Support.

They then admitted on an email they had done so.

While Lawwell’s reply was laughable, this time it’s not the content of the letter (and it is a letter not an email) that is causing concern, it’s not only FARE apparently admitting to breaching certainly their own privacy promises, but possibly breaching Data Protection laws, and certainly raising eyebrows over their handling of personal data when the party being complained about was Celtic Football Club, while protecting the identity of the FARE Complainant at the PSV-Rangers Matches.

What is most alarming for the senders of the FARE Forms is the alleged shadowy links between FARE and Kieron Brady’s CICI organisation, and that organisation’s links to extremist Irish Republican Celtic Supporters’ Group “The Green Brigade”, and Brady’s friendship with Irish Republican Phil MacGiollaBhain.

Have they seen these details?

If so, who passed on those details?

They must be punished.
As the first link in that communication chain is FARE, it’s there that the authorities need to look at first.

DJM