The trickle of allegations that Rangers failed to properly register football players has turned into a flood. Today’s Daily Mail is the latest to run the story, with evidence from former Rangers director, Hugh Adam, that offshore payments to players “weren’t included in the contracts. They definitely weren’t.
“That was the whole point of them. If they’d been included in the contracts, they would have had to have paid tax on them”
“All the directors heard about them but didn’t take them seriously because they didn’t appear in the books.”
Mail reporter, John McGarry, writes, “Adam’s revelation suggests a clear breach of the SFA rulebook – and is a potential embarrassment to current SFA president Campbell Ogilvie, who had a 27-year association with Rangers, many of them spent as secretary.”
Despite being implicated in potentially the most serious scandal in the history of Scottish football, Ogilvie remains in place as SFA president and is one of the few who will be issued with the private report into Rangers, due next week.
Although it is thought Rangers started their Employee Benefit Trust in 2000, Adam told the Mail he believed a scheme paying players off-contract was in operation from the mid 1990s.
I would like to be the first to congratulate Motherwell FC for winning the Scottish League, Premier Division, in 1995.
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did the 94-95 SPL winners go straight into the following season’s CL ? revenue from that with 17 years interest ?
From last blog,
Neil Lennon is (and always will be) a Celtforlife (*O*) on 2 March, 2012 at 09:21 said:
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The Maurice Johnston tax issues were made clear by some papers at the time. Essentially what happened was as follows:
At that time if you were wotking abroad, to avoid having to pay tax to UK’s HMIT you had to remain out of the country for 3 years. You were allowed up to 90 days visiting rights to UK each year. You were then only liable to pay taxes to the country you worked in. In Judas’ case, France.
Mojo, however, wanted to return to Scotland after two years as his partner was homesick. Agent Orange, Bill McMurdo, advised him against this because he was still liable to pay taxes to HMIT. However, Iscariot insisted on returning to Scotland.
He agreed to return to Celtic but during the negotiations, when Celtic were asked to pay £300,000 to HMIT to pay for tax, Celtic refused and told him that all individuals were responsible for their own Income Tax. Rangers FC, on the other hand, were only too willing to pay the extra £300,000 to secure his signature. It served the purpose of satisfying EUFA who were about to ban Rangers FC from Europe due to their discriminatory employment policy and it also served as a GIRUY to Celtic – something that both Souness and Murray found it difficult to refrain from. Reports at the time stated that Celtic were to sign Johnston in a £1 million deal. When he signed for RFC it was reported as a £1.3million deal.
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Good Morning Bhoys, Just off nights and wanted to congratulate Mr 67 with a stunning article last night which cleared everything up from fact and media peddled fiction. Nice work Sir! also i read the mail article this morning and had to re read it. surely this has got bigger than even you thought Paul. Its just keeps coming at them, we knew the sfa,spl were complicit but since the 90s? and everyone knew? UEFA must step in now. beyond a laughing stock now, Its truly calculated and insidious to the core. We surly cant play in this league now knowing everything we now know and the time period of cheated trophies. If motherwell are getting 95s how many are we owed??????
Hail Hail!!!
KLV
Change the “i” to an “o”……..
none on a row hoho
none in a row hoho
BINGO!
Ooh ya.
Just BINGO!
No response from the SFA to Adam’s allegations yet?
Reagan needs to say something. TODAY.
And Ogilville must stand down.
St Martin De Porres on 2 March, 2012 at 09:41 said:
Paul
Does anyone have any idea where this is going to end?
As you rightly put it. This watershed is now a flood
I cant wait to see Brian Dempsey outside on the steps of Hampden park
” the game is over………..”
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According to twitter it could go Thermonuclear
Paul67 – Great work as usual. Excellent point about Motherwell.
Now looking forward to a scathing piece from Mark Hately now about “tainted titles”…lots of material in the public domain now for him to go on…
Morning cqn
Time for UEFA to be called in ASAP
This event cannot be investigated by people who held office in both.
Would expect senior spl or sfa to ask for UEFA to take control today.
Havingapartywhenthehunsdiex csc
Can I also congratulate Motherwell FC on their Championship winning success,
I hope the belated party goes well,
apart from tam cowan who remains an arse.
With the train of liquidation heading towards Rangers changing from Thomas the Tank engine to a Japanese Bullet Express, will 15 days from today be the most ironic date of all
Could St Patricks day 2012 be the day
Remember the significance of 23
17/03/12
Add them up
Karma goes thermonuclear
Tweets
1h Sharpie@Shairpie
@StewartRegan Mr Regan, why have we not seen the SFA respond to these accusations of dual contracts at Rangers?
1h Stewart M. Regan@StewartRegan
@Shairpie We are conducting an independent inquiry and will not comment on specific issues until the report is considered by our Board.
@Jdubya67
@StewartRegan @Shairpie stewart I thought I E was in response to recent activity not x2 contracts.This is turning into a National disaster
still waiting…
Regan wont do anything as ogilivie interviewed him for the job, he wont turn on his boss and obviously was a nice fit for the role. So I fully expect nothing to happen with in those corrupt walls at ham den(lol) Its over to UEFA and its dirty and they may side step it. lets see what happens.
KLV
Has RC Ogilvie resigned yet?
This mob are up to their knees in it
and it’s not our blood this time
This is just the beginning ( of the end )
If Regans does not follow due process, whatever that may be under the SFA Articles of Association then there may be the risk that the “investigation” could collapse, thats not to say further investigations are not warranted given this “new” evidence.
Patience comrades patience, we have waited this long we can wait a while longer
Could someone tell if I am dreaming all of this?
It could be NIKE 2012.
Does anybody know if Grant Thornton were Rangers Auditors in 1989? Does anybody know if Grant Thornton have audited Rangers books since 1989 without break? Also does anybody know what the relationship was between Donald Charles McIntyre and Grant Thornton?
Regarding Motherwell FC’s deserved winning of the League title in 1995 (but having had it stolen from them by TFOD), as Celtic supporters we have a great debt to Motherwell FC. Their only previous Legue Title win was in 1931. This broke a run of League titles by RFC who, but for Motherwell’s timely intervention would have won, ine in a row before us.
Be careful out there bhoys, the huns are going to take all these revelations like huns naturally do and something tells me things are going to happen which reinforces exactly why we want them gone forever. Not scaremongering but we saw what happened in Manchester when there was a faulty screen.
In the warped mind of the hun we will become a target for their anger.
Party, but be careful!
Now, when does Bairds open?!! :)
HH
Twists & Turns..
I Have been told The Judge will give his Findings on the 16th of March..
So a Paddy Day Liquid Event looks..Kool..
Summa
Love it, congratulations to the Motherwell 1995 leagu winning side !
How many of these apply to RFCiA?
Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling
By Daily Reckoning Contributor
02/05/07 by David Michael Green
So. You’ve built yourself an empire, eh?
Well, bully for you!
What’s next, you ask? Well, now you’ve got to do what everybody does when they have an empire, of course. You’ve got to worry about it falling apart, mate!
But how to tell for sure? Let me see if I can be helpful. Here are some rules of thumb to keep in mind, thirty-six sure-fire indicators that your empire is falling apart:
You know your empire’s crumbling when the folks who are gearing up their empire to replace yours start blowing up satellites in space. And then they don’t bother to return your phone calls when you ring up to ask why.
You know your empire’s crumbling when those same folks are cutting deals left, right and center across Asia, Latin America and Africa, while you, your lousy terms, and your arrogant attitude are no longer welcome.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending your grandchildren’s money like a drunken sailor, and letting your soon-to-be rivals finance your little splurge (i.e., letting them own your country).
You know your empire’s crumbling when it’s considered an achievement to pretend that you’ve halved the rate at which you’re adding to the massive mountain of debt you’ve already accumulated.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you weaken your currency until it looks as anemic as a Paris runway model, and you’re still setting record trade deficits. (Hint: Because you’re not making anything anymore.)
You know your empire’s crumbling when “the little brown ones” (thank you George H.W. Bush – certainly not me – for that lovely expression) in country after country of “your backyard” blow you off and proudly elect anti-imperialist leftist governments.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t topple those governments and replace them with nice puppet regimes – like in the good old days – even if you wanted to. And you badly want to.
You know your empire’s crumbling when one of their leaders comes to the United Nations and makes fun of your emperor, calling him the devil, and joking about smelling sulphur where he just stood. And though a few folks cringe, everybody laughs.
You know your empire’s crumbling when just about your entire military land force is tied up in a worse-than-useless war launched on the basis of complete fabrications, that every day is actually making you less – not more – secure from external threat.
You know your empire’s crumbling when almost half the soldiers in that war are high-paid mercenaries, and you don’t dare institute a draft.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you send soldiers into war with two weeks training and a lack of armor, and then you keep them there for three, four and five rotations.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a member of the Axis of Evil can test missiles and explode nuclear warheads, and all you can do about it is mumble some pathetic warnings about how they better not do that again or there will be consequences.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you even think that there is an Axis of Evil.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a rag-tag military hodge-podge of irregulars has you pinned down in an endless fight you can’t win, but also can’t lose.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re too dumb to even ban Humvees as a first step toward ending your dependency on a foreign-owned crucial resource.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you trade your prior moral leadership on human rights issues for global disgust at your torture, ‘extraordinary rendition’ (a.k.a. kidnaping for torture) and the dismantling of nine centuries worth of civil liberties progress.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you blow off international law that you once helped create, and undermine the institutions of international governance that you once helped build.
You know your empire’s crumbling when opinion polls confirm that every month you’re more and more despised throughout the world.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you can’t even pull off the hanging of a tin-pot murderous former dictator without turning him into a hero.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re the richest country in the world, but nearly 50 million of your people don’t have basic health care coverage.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the World Health Organization ranks your healthcare system 37th ‘best’ in the world, just above Slovenia, and just below Costa Rica. (And far below Colombia, Cyprus, Saudi Arabia and Morocco.)
You know your empire’s crumbling when instead of making it easier for citizens to obtain a higher education, you’re making it harder and more expensive.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your government gives tax breaks to industries as a reward for exporting your jobs elsewhere.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the so-called ‘opposition’ party can’t even turn that obscenity into a viable campaign theme and use it to clobber the worst emperor in your history.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your middle class has been stagnant for three decades, while the wealth of the hyper-rich continues to climb through the roof.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your reaction to that is to exacerbate the problem by enacting tax policies that massively increase further still the gap between the rich and the rest.
You know your empire’s crumbling when the predatory class has taken over your government and is stripping the country of everything not bolted down to the floor. And then it sells the floor itself, as well, to your rivals.
You know your empire’s crumbling when you’re spending tens of billions of dollars you don’t own on new nuclear warheads and space weapons that don’t work, to be used against an enemy you don’t have.
You know your empire’s crumbling when one of your cities drowns and your government does next to nothing before, during and after.
You know your empire’s crumbling when a massive environmental nightmare is looming around the corner, and your emperor not only ignores it, but claims it isn’t real while taking steps to exacerbate it.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your emperor is warned by a CIA briefer of an imminent terrorist attack of vast proportions, and responds by remaining on vacation and dismissing the briefer with the words: “All right. You’ve covered your ass, now.”
You know your empire’s crumbling when the same emperor drops everything to fly across the country from his vacation home in order to sign a bill intervening on the wrong side of a personal medical drama involving a single family.
You know your empire’s crumbling when gays and immigrants are used as diversionary issues to keep people from thinking about the pillaging of their country and their wallets actually taking place. And it works.
You know your empire’s crumbling when people are getting more religious and less scientific, not the other way around.
You know your empire’s crumbling when your political leaders start to be chosen by dynastic rules of succession.
And you especially know your empire’s crumbling when the most idiotic child of one of the least accomplished leaders in its history is not only crowned as the next emperor, but is even revered for a time by most of the public as a great one.
Rome? Britain? Spain?
At this rate we’ll be lucky to end up like Belgium.
Read more: Thirty-Six Sure-Fire Signs That Your Empire Is Crumbling http://dailyreckoning.com/thirty-six-sure-fire-signs-that-your-empire-is-crumbling/#ixzz1nxAj2Vlb
Paul67
Outstanding Article, with a last paragraph that is simply the best.
just cant get enough, but there will be more.
Paul 67
Do you think we should build the Hugh Adams statue, before or, after the one for ‘our’ hero :o)))
Hail! Hail!
Fantastic article Paul67,
Still smiling at the last sentence!
The inquiry needed here needs to be independent with international participation.
The scale is similar to the Bloody Sunday Inquiry, by Lord Saville.
The above is not intended to trivialise the events of that day for the families of those murdered.
Árd Macha
Ranglers + h*n support + MIB’s + SFA + SPL + Scottish media = CHEATING BASSAS!
Excellent piece again Paul,
Motherwell winning the league who’d a’ thought – isn’t it about time these other SPL clubs especially the ones who could have been serious contenders, look to see what 25yrs of RFC dominance has had on their team, then ask was this fair?
Garcia Lorca @ 09:33,
Heard that Roddy Forsythe piece.
Did you notice that the London sports summariser asking him the questions loaded that one. Roddy sounded uncomfortable and he intimated that it was the SPL that thought they needed a strong R@ngers, there was laughter in the background.
Don’t think they’re fooling no one no more.
I seem to remember that when Judas Johnstone signed for the huns that, in one of the many interviews he gave, I think this one I refer to was on Scotsport by, Jim White I think when Judas said ” I had a tax-bill of, £150,000 and Celtic couldn’t pay it so, Rankers did .”
I’m absolutely sure Judas said that. Hopefully someone could help with that as, it would take the ‘dodgy’ tax issue back to 1989!!!
I desperately hope that’s right.
“Cheerio, 9 in a row!” – CSC
Hello hello HMRC are your boss!
Hello hello HMRC are your boss!
Your up to your knees in Taxman’s debt
Surrender or you’ll die
Cos HMRC are your boss!
Traditionalist.
Indeed. Already FF is full of sinister threats. One thread is running with comments “if they want civil unrest…………..”
Could someone please repost the Email address of who we contact at UEFA to ask for assistance in helping us expose this (allegation).
This mess has nothing to do with Celtic or anyone else except rankers & the SFA the rest of Scottish football MUST NOT be punished or tarred with the same brush as them.
Keep the pressure on them each and every one of us can play our part in cleaning up our gome and creating a level playing field.
HUNT THEM DOWN thank you Paul67 for all you do in getting the info out there.
HAIL HAIL
twists n turns on 2 March, 2012 at 10:17 said:
maybe alex salmond will bring a law into place about such threats…..
I used to comment often on this site but now just enjoy reading the fantastic contributors comments. Many of he revelations coming out on a daily basis now have been incredible. We have all felt for decades that Skulduggery was rife throughout our game. With the establishment club seeming untouchable. It may have taken decades of pain & torment but the dawn seems to have finally arisen on the epidemic levels of corruption. Which has saturated & tainted every aspect of Scottish Football & beyond. The ramifications should be catastrophic but somehow & I have no idea how but I can see much of this being swept under the carpet. The consequences of not doing so for those involved, are too far reaching for this not to be.
Just one opinion which I hope proves entirely inaccurate.
Keep up the pressure to remove Ogilvie. He was there when they had a sectarian signing policy and when they were involved in financial doping.
In the past couple of years the view has been expressed on this blog that the SFA is nothing but a Rangers protection racket. Some people may have thought that a little extreme. Not any more.
Who would have thought Queen of the South had it in them in 2008, eh? Scottish Cup Winners, woop!
They are dangerous bhoys, be careful and party in your house, Just bought tickets for st johnstone game and not taking the kids. We will get the blame for eveything as we heard at their home game against killie and the ict game, the hatred is up 10 fold.
KLV