MALKY MACKAY: " JUDGE ME ON MY FUTURE "

Malky Mackay: Judge me on my future with the Scottish FA, not my past

Friday 16th December 2016

By Daily mail

Malky Mackay has insisted he should be judged only on his work as the new performance director of the Scottish FA, despite remaining at the centre of corruption allegations made by his former Cardiff City employers.

Lawyers representing the Welsh club went into battle at the High Court on Thursday in a bid to have their claim of ‘dishonest conspiracy’ against Mackay, former director of football Iain Moody and three agents heard in a public court.

Cardiff claim Mackay, Moody, David Manasseh, Rob Segal and John Inglis conspired to defraud the club over Steven Caulker’s £8.5million move from Tottenham in July 2013 and Peter Odemwingie’s £2.5m switch from West Bromwich Albion two months later, and are suing them for almost £10m in damages. The five men have denied any wrongdoing.




Steven Caulker moved to Cardiff from Spurs in 2013
Odemwingie signed for Cardiff from West Brom
The hearing is focused on Steven Caulker and Peter Odemwingie's transfers in summer 2013

At a heavily controlled SFA press conference yesterday, Mackay said he had informed his new employers of the situation and added: ‘I categorically deny I have done anything wrong and there is no shred of evidence against me, but I do respect the legal process.’

Mackay’s appointment had already raised eyebrows because of the exchange of racist, sexist and homophobic messages he had with Moody when they worked at Cardiff.

But Mackay stressed he had attended equality and diversity courses despite being cleared by an FA investigation that concluded the messages were exchanged with a ‘legitimate expectation of privacy’.

‘Judge me on what you see going forward,’ Mackay said. ‘Access to me is an open door policy. Come and sit down and have a cup of tea with me.

‘People who know me know exactly what I am and who I am. If you don’t know me then judge me by what you see going forward.’

Cardiff’s case, and their investigation into eight transfers in all, continu

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Malky's new job

The former Bluebirds boss have landed himself a new job with the Scottish FA, and he has hit back at those who have said he shouldn’t have been offered the job. As well as addressing his high court battle with Cardiff City.

Malky Mackay said:

"I categorically deny that I have done anything wrong there and there is no shred of evidence against me, but I do respect the legal process"

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The problem for MM is it is now common knowledge he crossed a certain line. All credit to him for attending these diversity classes BUT his job could involve coming into contact with young vulnerable people.

There are somethings which just can't be overlooked and you cannot let someone who is known to have used such language in the past have access to young people who could be easily influenced or abused.

By all means he can find work in the media or something like that but the last thing he should be doing is working with vulnerable youngsters.

As for the allegations against him, if there is not a 'shred' of evidence then he won't mind the hearing being conducted in public.