Charles Green, owner of “The Rangers Football Club Limited“, formed in May this year, yesterday released a remarkable statement yesterday, ahead of the SPL Commission into How Rangers FC, formed in 1872, registered football players for over a decade.
“In short, what was decided by the SPL membership is that Rangers was finished as a member of the SPL. Despite this, the SPL now see the new owners of the company, and the new company itself, which owns all the assets of Rangers FC – including SPL championship titles – as fair game for punishment for matters that have nothing to do with us at all.”
We dealt with the purchasing of history on here some months ago. Once we realised it was possible, I snapped up ancient Egyptian history, the period from the pharaohs until Mark Antony. I AM responsible for the Pyramids of Giza but any slavery which may or may not have been used in their construction is NOTHING to do with me.
No one complained about the use of slaves at the time and I am sure each pyramid would have been constructed whether slaves were used of not. If slaves were so necessary for the construction I am sure “we” would have built many more.
Mr Green seems keen to protest against the SPL process, however, he, frankly, fails miserably. He doesn’t “question the impartiality of the individual panel members” but assets “whatever decision they reach is a decision of the SPL”.
So that will be independent members reaching a decision for the SPL! I think he doth protest too little.
There is also a threat: “”To make it crystal clear, the new owners purchased all the business and assets of Rangers, including titles and trophies. Any attempt to undermine or diminish the value of those assets will be met with the stiffest resistance, including legal recourse.”
Charles Green took steps to undermine his new company’s claim on Rangers titles in a BBC interview in June when he said that if his CVA proposal was to fail (which it did) and Rangers were to be liquidated (which they are), “the history, the tradition, everything that’s great about this club is swept aside”.
“Legal recourse”, which is prohibited by Fifa and which the SFA accommodated from Duff and Phelps, acting on behalf of Rangers, will provide Scottish football with a further drama. We mentioned at the time that the true cost of the SFA being so accommodating would be a repeat performance.
Mr Green asks why the “football authorities do nothing to address an issue that was public knowledge for at least two years, and was reported in the Club’s accounts for several years”? I think I can help here. Sir David Murray, who owned Rangers during the duration of its Employee Benefit Trust years, categorically denied that the club issued players with second contracts which were not submitted to the authorities. He reiterated this point most recently on a Sky News interview in March.
The football authorities have no issues whatsoever with Employee Benefit Trusts, it’s player contracts they insist are registered. Rangers insisted they had no case to answer until the SPL set a deadline on Duff and Phelps to fully disclose the nature of the alleged second contracts.
Charles claims during those lurid weeks when the SPL and SFA were negotiating with Green, that Neil Doncaster “repeatedly stated he was not interested in stripping titles from Rangers”. If he had evidence of this, ANY evidence, it would be fascinating.
If not, we should dismiss this claim.
A curious barb is made in other directions, “Rangers was not the only Club in Scotland to use EBTs yet nothing was done and little has been heard about it”.
One more time, for Mr Green’s benefit, EBTs are not against football regulations whatsoever. They are entirely legal and permitted by the SFA and SPL. The SPL Commission is not investigating whether Rangers used EBTs or not, it will investigate whether or not all player contracts were registered.
Mr Green goes on to make varied comments against “powerful representatives from Clubs within the SPL…. who appear hell bent on inflicting as much damage on Rangers as possible”, and that some “clubs were placed in an invidious position and we believe their interests were not best served by those in more powerful positions”.
Let’s have some context here. If we were to make a list of those who inflicted most damage on Rangers, representatives from other clubs would scarcely merit a mention. Those who allowed the club to spend more than it earned for so many years, who introduced the perilous tax avoidance system, those who failed to make accommodations for HMRC’s claim when it was first made, and those directors who personally benefited from the EBT scheme all carry primary responsibility.
Then would come the cheerleaders for the disastrous Craig Whyte regime – those who last year campaigned for the takeover, including putting pressure on Lloyds Banking Group to accept the terms.
Rangers opponents were spectators throughout this period. Any suggestion that our club were anything but opponents to Rangers, and alleged victims of trophies won by illegally registered players, when they should have been campaigning on behalf of their rivals, seriously misreads what was an established Glasgow rivalry. Of course it would be the same the other way – and rightly so.
Despite clearly feeling strongly about the Commission, Green didn’t address the key point….
There was no denial of the central charge that for a decade or more Rangers fielded improperly registered football players.
Yesterday some people suggested Green had offered the Lance Armstrong defence but Armstrong denied he was guilty while refusing to participate in the investigation into doping. This is a different matter altogether. Green has offered up something for every conceivable paranoid condition without actually claiming Rangers are wrongly accused.
The headlines today are all about titles being stripped but that is not the main topic in play. More importantly, after titles are stripped, what punishment will the SPL Commission levy on the Rangers membership, granted to Sevco in June?
The sheer scale of the charge makes this question incalculable. The toxicity attached to that membership is untenable and no bogeymen at other clubs, at the SPL or SFA are responsible for that.
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LEN BRENNAN 1305
Either you are younger than me,or the oldest swinger in town-but you can do the link to that one,haha!
What do we make of Green’s nonsense they dont want to return to the SPL.
Suits me if we go for the CL every season from now on.
Trad88,
The destruction of Scottish football is all they have left, they won’t hesitate
I will never tire of reading this.
“To make it crystal clear, the new owners purchased all the business and assets of Rangers, including titles and trophies.”
TALLYBHOY,A SON OF DAN
Aye,kiddin’ no-one.
A bit like me or you going onto FF/RM,we would always give ourselves away.
Mind,I like to think I would be more subtle than he was.
I went to a good school,after all……
So that shower could ‘decide’, at some future date, not to re-enter the SPL?!
Are they expecting to be invited to participate in a pan-European Super League – alongside Barca, Bayern, Milan and ourselves of course?!
Stupid, deluded huns!
HH!!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
I went to a good school,after all……
That would give you away straight off, as it is all the fault of Kafflik Skools.
BMCUW
Spot on there pal!
However, do forgive me – I would, humbly, suggest that I went to a better school than your goodself!
Tin hat on! Often wore it to school as well!
HH!!
TALLYBHOY
We can rely on you to man the barricades around Milan.
I’ll stop them leaving Kilwinning by telling them it breaks their caste-worked so far when they threaten to give me a visit down here.
As you said,S.S.H……
A SON OF DAN
I’m clocked right away-count out the correct money for my oint,and spell my name correctly on the board for the pool table.
Which,I may add,isnae the most common name in the pubs back home……..
Green talking about the Motherwell Leage Cup match at ibrokes.
“It’s the first time we have met an SPL club since they all decided to throw us out. That will be an interesting event, won’t it?”
How do you make a complaint to FOCUS regarding this idiot’s actions, surely they must fall foul of the new legislation.
oint=pint=bedtime for bertie………
As a notorious ole propagandist once said if you repeat a lie often enough it will become accepted as the Truth.
THis is what’s driving the drivel from hillbilly central.
BMCUW
‘They’ are barred from entering Italy!
All border crossings, airports, seaports, railway and bus stations… are fully manned to refuse them entry!
They shall NOT pass!
Anyway, Italy is far too Kafflick for them – churches everywhere and millions of priests and nuns wandering about!
HH!!
You know what would be funny, if the well support boycotted ibroke, they’d still be due half the gate money :o)
i believe its time someone informed chuck gringo that piracy is a serious criminal offence.
pi·ra·cy;
1. practice of a pirate; robbery or illegal violence at ibrox.
2.the unauthorized reproduction or use of a copyrighted book, recording, television program, patented invention, trademarked product, etc.: The rangers is beset with piracy.
To laugh and spew simultaneously is known as drunken hysteria.
Whoops…..there I go. Greeny cops a projectile moment. Wait ’til ra Bommur awakens and catches up with his old mucker. I’d pay to witness that.
: > )
Just did a great deal with the guy next door for his history.
Turns out a I had threesome romp the night of the millennium and I’ve been seeing the woman across the back for the last 18 months!
Unbelievable. Wait till I tell the wife what I bought.
BlantyreKev
lol!
A threesome romp with Blantyre Kev is ‘like a new signing’- Mark Hately.
Hi guys, great times of late, haven’t posted for an age… But favour time:
In Lisbon, any ideas where a good pub to watch the footy tonight is?
Cheers
Curiouser and curiouser… The plot thickens once more. I feel more and more certain of how this sorry tale will end…
I’ve come to believe that Chunky is the reincarnation of Groucho : I wouldn’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member.
Well….that may also come true when the hysterically stupid huns realise that they’ve had their pockets picked by the vulture they accept now as fervently as they hated him a few short weeks ago. CG = CW was their mantra. Now, he’s achieved Spartacus status.
If I had any real moxie I’d get myself down Govan way and start sellin’ magic beans. Those eejits’ll believe anything and everything.
Their flip-floppery is approaching legendary.
I await with glee their awakening and mass wailing and gnashing of gums when they realise they’ve been royally blootered….again.
Then they will realise the stunning insight and veracity of Jabba’s subtle message : “Enough is enought.” Even he, on a subterranean level has realised that Chunky spouts idiocy, and has, without realising it, said what needs to be said. ‘Nuff z ‘Nuff.
Tallybhoy,
That piece of gibberish looks like something that would have dripped of the quillof Mr. Keevins.
Any Celtic news today?
Any news about our short and long term injured?
How are the new bhoys settling in?
Is Efe back from Israel with the docs he needs allow him to play for us?
wonkyradar12:40 on11 September, 2012:
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When I read that, all I could think by the end was of Max von Sydov in “The Exorcist”.
HH!
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Am l The Only Person Who is Disturbed when l read a Headline..
“Murray Credit’s Czech (Cheque) for Title Win”..
Tho we Will be Hearing Next EBT Means..England’s Best Tennisplayer..
Summa of DunblaneCSC
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
13:25 on
11 September, 2012
I registered on FF about a year ago……I was barred after my second post ………LOL
Philbhoy- only Celtic news I want today is that none of our players have been injured in the WC qualies.
This is where the hysteria is taking the blue meanies :
[ Looks like CG rabble rousing has had the desired effect with the sevconians on RM.One poster declared “this is our boyne” while another is ready for battle by declaring”its time to batter people in the street”. ]
Crazier and crazier. And it’s not very funny.
Sir Paul
Yep.. and so it goes.
Ho Hum…Greenie is a Bum~
anyway..
Ah gave ye.. Fisher.. Johnstone..
Noo.. the Next . Kid tae hit the Heights..
Mark Hill.. Fourteen .. and Looks.. well.. Twenty?
Mark.. doon Mark.. fur wan fur “The Present”.. No ..”The Future”.
Yep..He is THAT good… straight fae the Dug’s Moof~
You’ll see.
Kojo
Still Laughin’
Miki67
Can you post a few?
Bhoys and ghirls, please say a wee prayer for my wee granny, she’s 85, bed ridden and suffers dementia. She was rushed to the western last night with a urine and chest infection and now she has pneumonia and isn’t responding well.
BMCUW
Thanks m8, no blame attached whatsoever.
Hendrix67- will include your wee gran in my prayers.
“Its time to batter people in the street!”.
As much as you hate hunnery,don’t ya just love it!
dontbrattbakkinanger
I appreciate that mate.
Hendrix67
Wee prayer said for your Granny.
May God bless her.