“The tax default and reporting rules are an integral part of maintaining a fair league competition”.
Neil Doncaster, SPFL chief executive, November 2014.
“A fair league competition”. Strong words. I wonder if Mr Doncaster is keen to apply his ethics as evenly when it comes to a team with more than a couple of thousand fans. Don’t bet on it.
I suggested last week you ignore the comments coming out of Hampden about there being little appetite to look into the enormous levels of cheating which we now know went on is our game for over a decade. There is very little appetite from those occupying executive positions at Hampden, but they will not decide what happens.
Ultimate authority at the SFA and SPFL lies with the clubs, and more than just Celtic are alarmed by what went on, and the apparent flippancy show towards it in recent days by those paid to protect the honesty and reputation of our game.
Instincts exist within any organisation to protect itself. We’ve seen this play out in the Church (against their own), the police (against their own), Fifa (against their own), so it should be no surprise that those who worked, and became friends with, some of the architects of Rangers EBT scandal had little appetite to open an investigation.
An SFA or SPFL commission could lead to the disciplining of two-term SFA president, Campbell Ogilvies, or Sir David Murray, men who have made friends in the game for decades.
It would inevitably lead to the examination of the Resolution 12 issue (how Rangers were granted a licence to compete in the Champions League in 2011 when they didn’t meet the criteria). And this one is current enough to involve many still active in their roles.
And then there is the weighty matter of dealing with the consequences of what went on in our sport for all those years.
The demand of an investigation into what went on sounds reasonable but you cannot look into something corrupt without consequences, and that’s where corrupt systems work against fair competition.
Rangers rigged the system, their practises are as clear-cut a case of Financial Doping as you will find. They were playing by different rules, different tax rules and different player registration rules.
They failed to disclose information which should have been disclosed, but could have incriminated them. Unlike Craig Whyte, who was banned from the game for his duplicities, the directors who embarked on this great subversion have never been called to account.
Nor will they unless voices are heard across Scottish football. Don’t lose focus on getting angry (not yet, anyway), right now, we need fans of other clubs to share our concerns and let their voices be heard. Winning allies is the first part of winning this debate, and that’s easier done by calmly making our point.
11 clubs suffered financial consequences of Rangers Financial Doping. Motherwell lost a minimum of £2.1m from not gaining access to European competition. How would they feel if they were a cyclist half a mile behind Lance Armstrong in every race? Would if be OK, as he didn’t get caught?
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/34767962
is it not sexist just having a boycott ?
:-))
Is it today that Charles Green gets to know whether he will be reimbursed by whoever runs the deid team for his legal fees?
Just listened to last night’s Radio Scotland. Darren O’Dea has risen in my respect for him. Lambert sounded like an illiterate bumbling, lying buffoon. Speirs and Wilson purposely tried to hoodwink the listeners with the ‘sporting advantage’ red herring. Wilson is a very narrow/closed minded hun. I knew many like him growing up. They are all members of OO or masonic organisations. Wilson sounds the same. Hope a few more ex players will come out in agreement with D O’D.
Bognorbhoy,
You are of course correct. It should be Bhoycott.
HH.
Just received my post thro` the letter box,and it includes my Annual Tax Summary from HMRC,
as a pensioner I apparently pay 11% Tax on my taxable income,32% of that goes to Health and Education with a further 25% going to Welfare,
Money well spent,and I am happy to be able to make a contribution,
Begs the question,”Do Messrs.Fergishun,McCann,Dodds,McLeish,Rae,et al”receive the same Summary every year and not think of their responsibilities to these public services,which I`m sure they have availed themselves and their families of over the years since participating in Tax Avoidance.
Their % Tax due would of course be far greater than my 11%.
Just sitting here thinking like.
I suspect that the SFA will do or say nothing while allowing the appeal period to run its course giving the peepil/SMSM more time for their twisted propaganda and hoping that other teams’ fans (apart from Celtic’s) will just gradually get fed up. It’s par for the course.
Mick
My favourite XI.
Boruc
McGrain McNeill Rieper Izzie
Johnstone Dalglish McStay Lennox
Larsson McClair
Subs. Lubo Elliot MacAvennie
Was born in 65 so missed most of the Lions.
HH
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-34775466
Never thought I would see the day.
LB
LIVIBHOY on 10TH NOVEMBER 2015 11:31 AM
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-34775466
Never thought I would see the day.
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One hopes that all concerned were wearing their poppies.
West End of East End on 10th November 2015 11:03 am –
You forgot about GASL 30 million
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/nov/10/bloody-sunday-investigators-arrest-former-soldier
Bloody Sunday investigators arrest former soldier
Detectives investigating shootings in Derry in 1972 arrest 66-year-old in Antrim
Melbourne Mick
Boruc ( the fit and healthy pre silly games with the Laptop loyal version )
McGrain / Connelly / Gemmell
Murdoch/ McStay / Hay .
Johnstone / Larsson / Moravcik / Lennox
Subs -Dalglish / Burns / McLair
Big Lambert was a hun skelper and a leader on the park.
He did his “talking” on the park, where it counted and I’m grateful for his contributions.
Off the park, he is the opposite of eloquent and can now be safely bracketed with either of the “Franks”…..
As for his managerial capabilities? – it is amazing what being a millionaire with natural confidence and having a certificate will let you do – same as Roy………
“TonightMathewI’mGoingToPickTheTeam! CSC”
67HEAVEN .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I AM WEE OSCAR…… IPOX BELONGS TO THE CREDITORS on 10TH NOVEMBER 2015 10:37 AM
http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-view/rangers-cheated-football-fraudulent-silverware/10066
‘Let nobody try and tell me it isn’t the same club – I have always said it is and now Rangers have to take the consequence of that reality right on the chin.’
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I said yesterday that if there’s any title stripping it will be done in such a way as to make it clear that the football authorities regard Sevco as being the same club.
That would be a Pyhrric victory.
i would like ask a question
all the talk about tax and
the names of players this
1 comes to my mind( super
mo} when he signed, he had
it payed into a swiss bank
tommie h.h.
67H
If they are treated as the same club????
Their football licence should be invoked and they are banished from the game.
ERNIE LYNCH
HMRC might yet do that down too.
Phoenixing is illegal.
BMCUW,
So Phoenixing is illegal.
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Take the big sick bird to the vet.
HH,
GREENPINATA
BOGNORBHOY
If we term it a Bhoycott,how likely are others to support it?
It needs to make a sweeping statement from everyone in Scottish football that wur joooost no’ having it.
Not us. Not Aberdeen or Hibs.
A united front against the corruption.
GREENPINATA
Ironically,a Phoenix is a myth…
TOMMIE20
Good point.
If you go back a tad further,they paid wages good enough to poach Francis from Italy,Wilkins from France,Hateley from a tax haven!
Souness may-or may not-have had some idea of how to recompense signings outside of the usual rules,and passed that on to his pal,Murray.
That,IIRC,was around the same time that World in Action went big on offshore accounts being used for Tottenham players when Irving Scholar was in charge.
Were they the only ones using such mechanisms? Not likely,IMO.
BMCUW,
I thought he was talking about the ill egal
BMCUP,
True, just like the newco / oldco speal from Greyskull.
The Bhoycott would only be for our LC semi which was spoken about this morning.
Overall I agree we need all clubs to buy in, however I fear apart from some spirited individuals we will be on our own.
HH to u.
new article posted.
Gents,
For the avoidance of doubt. The ill Eagle is completely different to unlawful.
Obviously one is a big sick bird, the other is what the law lords have stated the Huns have done.
HH.
Greenpinata
The time for a bhoycott was last season’s League Cup Semi Final.
Some great teams coming in guys.
D D
Always feel bad for you young bucks that never seen the lions
especially wee Jinky i feel very lucky and privileged .
H.H Mick
Dd,
Re boycott.
Correct!!!!
HH
Simpson
McGrain. Gemmell
Murdoch. McNeil. Clark
Johnstone. Mcstay. Larsson. Lubo Lennox
Then you get dead annoyed cos
Tony Donnelly
Picked a nearly perfect Celtic team