Chill your jets. Far better to win and score five goals in a preseason friendly than to lose, but these games are all about improving fitness, the score is the least important aspect. Notwithstanding that, I’m pleased Teemu Pukki showed some form in front of goal. I don’t think Celtic would stand in his way if he found a potential new employer, but if he remains with us this season, his pace is likely to sit comfortably with the Ronny Deila model.
After missing the bulk of the last two Champions League campaigns through injury and Brazilian diving, news that Scott Brown will miss an extended period as a consequence of his hamstring injury is a blow to club and player.
It could have been worse. Celtic lost Scott for the bulk of last season’s Champions League on 1 October, when they were unable to compensate by tweeking the squad. Expectations are we will be without the player until October and we are only nine days into the transfer window. Lots of time to ensure we are at full strength when the meaty part of the season starts.
Brazil players and Phil Scolari turned up for yesterday’s semifinal wearing Naymar caps in the absence of their star striker. Their Excuse To Fail – emblazoned across their foreheads. Literally!
Add to the mix what can only be described as inappropriately enthusiastic anthem singing, while holding up the no. 10 shirt of, let’s remember, another player, not a fallen war hero, and you have all the ingredients for cloudy and unstructured thinking, instead of focus and awareness.
I don’t doubt this was all well-meaning but it was amateurish naivety. Players should turn up to a stadium with their game plan dominating their minds, not lamenting the loss of their best hope, having been consumed by national pride, one of mankind’s enduring fallacies. The Brazilian FA should immediately sack Roy Hodgson Big Phil.
Has all this Tour de Yorkshire business put you in the mood to get the bike out? If you why don’t you sign up for the Cardenden Cycle, which this year takes place on 6 September. You cycle from Celtic Park to the grave of John Thomson in Cardenden, Fife, a 64 mile journey. Full details are here.
If your cycling days are over, they are looking for drivers and stewards… if you’re available.
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jamesgang,
The only creases are on my dish. :(
HMRC lose their appeal.
Cheats prosper. Oh well, we can still do 10 in a row.
Sips
FF’s don’t be taking an iron to them.
Speak to BMCUW and he’ll fix you up with some of his Botox!
HH jamesgang
JAMESGANG
Botox,moi?
Do I look like I use Botox,ffs?
(NB-do I,not should I?!)
Just a short comment on the Big Tax Case and the death of Rangers.
Whatever the legality or otherwise of the scheme they used, Rangers FC failed to register payments to players with the SFA. That is fact. They kind of got off with that on the basis that it was some kind of ‘oversight’. That’s where the Dodgy handshakes and the friends in high places comes in.
The fact that Rangers felt the need to hide these payments in some way, offer to settle out of court on them, pleaded guilty to other non compliant tax dodging schemes would indicate that they knew what they were doing was non 100% legit and that they thought they would get away with it.
We shouldn’t lose sight also of the non payment of taxes that finally wrecked them under Craig Whyte – there were directors of the club at that time who now want to be part of the action at Newco. They knew what was going on – and they did nothing.
Oh, and as for newco – they have since spent themselves in to poverty from the get go. And why? Because their hero, Walter Smith among others, egged on, aided and abetted by the SMSM could not accept their new reality as a lower tier, structurally challenged club.
They can bleat all they like but they nearly destroyed Scottish Football with their mental spending and disgraceful attitude to sporting achievement.
The big tax case changes nothing. If they’d paid their bills when due they’d still be with us. If they’d spent what they could honestly afford they’d still be with us, albeit with a few less of their sullied ’51’ and not counting anymore titles.
GIRFUT
timaloy29
09:26 on 10 July, 2014
HMRC lose their appeal.
Cheats prosper. Oh well, we can still do 10 in a row.
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In so far as their history is ‘in tact’ and they weren’t stripped of titles, the cheats did indeed prosper.
I wouldn’t describe where their reincarnation is at as prosperous…….
Turkeybhoy @ 9.00. Nobody is saying that there are not 2 sides to the story but the reality is that the Israelis have overwhelming strength on their side. They are wealthy and backed by the U.S, they are armed to the teeth with the most sophisticated modern armaments. The Palestinians are impoverished crowded together in small enclaves and are mere target practice for the Israelis. A few rockets are fired by Hamas and land harmlessly in the Israeli Countryside. The Israelis launch 750 targeted strikes on Gaza cause widespread destruction in an already desperate place, kill a hundred people including innocent women & children. Yes you are right there are two sides to this story and I know which side I am on.
Has anyone tried registering on the ST. Pauli website and find it impossible as it has a format for putting in Date of Birth which when followed still gives an error message.
To order tickets the registration process need to be completed
BMCUW
Away you go. You’re renowned as the doyen of fashion on CQN.
Jobo does weather. BMCUW does beauty.
Natural state of affairs!
HH jamesgang
Ps just wanted to see if you were up/ at the pub yet! ;-)
Sipsini
Have a ball bud.
Rome is on my must visit list.
JAMESGANG
Split shift today,mate. Back out in an hour.
Thursday is my liver’s day of rest. I’m sure it appreciates it!
Ellboy
Rangers began using ebts in 1999 with a payment to Craig Moore with an ebt using a Discounted Option Scheme. There was no side letter for Moore. That it was an ebt can be discerned by the term LNS later gave it ie “Rangers Employee Benefit Trust.”
In Aug 2000 Ronnie De Boer was paid using the same ebt scheme as part of his remuneration package with side letters.
Flo was next in Nov 2000.
This DOS was also used by Aberdeen Asset Management and HMRC decided it was an illegal scheme and pursued the company for payment of the tax due.
AAM appealed to an FTT and UTT against the payment but they both found for HMRC.
Following their FTT victory over AAM HMRC , armed with the fact that it was an illegal scheme pursued Rangers for payment in Nov 2010.
Then in Feb 2011 armed with the fact Rangers used side letters that were concealed from HMRC (and SFA/SPL) they pursued Rangers for payment of the tax due. On QC advice, where the concealment was the deciding factor, Rangers agreed to settle.
This is the genesis of the wee tax case that itself gave rise to Res12.
Sometime in 2002 ( I have to check the document) Rangers migrated from the unlawful ebt to the one the UTT found to be lawful because payments under it were deemed loans not pay. De Boer was moved from the DOS ebt to the loan ebt in 2002. Again from memory he was paid by DOS in first half of season 2002/03 and loan in the second half of that season in which Rangers narrowly won the title.
Lord Nimmo Smith was led to and allowed to conflate both lawful ( the loans) and unlawful (DOS) this rendering the DOS payments to De Boer and Flo lawful when they are not.
This is the story the documentation tells, documentation that was witheld from LNS.
The wee tax case story is being omitted because it simply does not fit the narrative that SDM is trying to spin. A narrative being widely reported in national media in spite of some of them having the story on the wee tax case.
It was the wee tax case that emboldened HMRC to pursue settlement on the BTC. They appear to have focused on the contractual element of the ebt ( ie the side letters which means it’s not an ebt) and not on the vehicle for putting the money in the players pocket.
Indeed Lord Doherty makes reference to the AAM case in his decision to spell out the difference.
HMRC ‘ S mission should they wish to pursue it is to have loans defined and see if the later ebts fall into that definition that stops the loan being pay.
Where does this take us?
De Boer and Flo were paid by unlawful means in a scheme that was without doubt tax evasion.
This is much more serious than misadministration. That and the migration to loan ebts where side letters continued to be concealed, is indicative of Rangers intent from the beginning and influenced HMRC to go after them.
There has been no football punishment for the use of unlawful ebts from 2000 to 2003.
Their 2003 title was unlawfully won.
The LNS Commission was misled by Rangers and paints a picture of only serious administrative error rather than the whole truth which is Rangers moved from illegal ebts to legal ones.
I doubt the latter will ever be corrected except on blogs but they are the only means of getting the truth out there.
Which is why I’ve blogged at length.
I just hope no one scrolls by.
PS Res12 is unaffected by the foregoing. The SFA ( as the SPL in the LNS case) still have questions to answer and those answers conveyed back to Celtic shareholders.
Auldheid-thanks ,keep fighting the good fight.
BMCUW
I don’t do livers so knock yourself out!
;-)
Back to work to save your other bits n bobs.
Stay gorgeous, handsome!
Over and oot
HH jamesgang
RT- Great post.
Auldhied
Is there a time scale for receiving those answers por cierto?
AULDHEID
No scrolling here,mate. Keep it coming.
I’m sure that HMRC will continue the process but they are severely constrained by not being able to argue simply that the original majority were wrong-for whatever reasons-and that the findings be overturned.
Auldheid – more power to you.
in other news……..
The Herlad seems to have made its mind up…still battin’ for the busted flush…..
Shameful.
BMCUW
Morning bud.
You don’t look a day over, eh ???
:-))
Curry on the agenda for Saturday. Yum yum!
…and lots of alcoholic beverages!
Hope I make the last train!
HH!!
celticforever
Not sure on this but you may find that you are putting in your date of birth the “wrong” way. ie 25th May 1967 is 25/5/67 in UK but elsewhere it is 5/25/67. Hope that helps. Apologies if I’m talking pash.
HH
TALLYBHOY
Aye,ya lucky sods!
You should be ok for the last train,mate. Loadsa yeez from that neck of the woods.
Just don’t fall asleep on it…
Per Cierto
No. The process stopped because of holidays but should recommence in next week.
Auldheid
It’s important you know that there’s lots of us in here who just aren’t in the same league as you ghuys in terms of understanding the minutiae of this tangled web and who really appreciate the efforts of you and others to uncover the truth.
I’m one of these simple and grateful souls! Thank you.
HH jamesgang
ger57
The Yanks put the month first then the date.
To them today is 7-10-14.
To us Europeans it’s 10-7-14.
HH!!
Auldheid
Thank you por cierto
Bmcuw
New phone lost numbers
Can u send me a text.
Auldheid
One thing I’d like to ask you.
We know who received these “legal” loans and the amounts. Is there any chance that the creditors of RFC 1872 (in Liquidation), through BDO, can force the recipients to repay the loans?
Those small businesses who dealt with the liquidated club in good faith have been stiffed whilst wealthy footballers and businessmen are swanning off with millions. They must be gutted if those loans are not repayable.
Auldheid
Thanks for that summation I for one will not scroll bye such a succinct article, I have a lot of that info in my head but unlike you I am not very good at getting it into some sort of timeline or order, so thanks for a great post, keep it lit.
HH
BLANTYRE TIM
Just done so,mate.
Hopefully I have the right number for you!
Any of you drive an Audi?
Ffs,don’t admit to it on here,just read the article.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/10957924/Police-warn-Audi-drivers-after-39-cars-broken-into-in-48-hours.html
Bmcuw
Cheers mate.replied
Auldheid
More power to you my friend.
BMCUW
Thank you for text:))))
Is Forster off to Southampton with Yoshida plus 7m coming back to us?
auldheid
Another very informative post , keep up the fight .
Well done auldheid – more power to your elbow !
Keep strong we are behind you hh
Pretty sure there will be at least one cup tie between ourselves and Sevco this coming season, at Ibrox obviously, in what will be a trial run ahead of their possible appearance in the top flight the following season.
Celtic, choose your words carefully.
HH
Auldheid
Thank you, great post.
Keep on keeping on!
Great post Auldheid,
HH