At some point today those who believed Rangers have, or should have, impunity from the law of the land, as well as the rules and regulations of Scottish football, will awaken to the realisation that this is not the case.
Soon thereafter another thought will arrive: what about the impending Improper Registration of Players charge?
Over a decade of subverting every competition they have played in. Denying clubs who register players correctly the right to compete on a level playing field. Grabbing prize money and the abundant financial rewards of Champions League football rightly due to others – more on this later in the week.
This charge brings every domestic and European competition they played in into disrepute and is several times the magnitude than that which Rangers were punished for yesterday. Then consider bringing the game into disrepute by chasing football bling instead of paying taxes, a separate issue from player registration.
The toxicity of these charges is enormous and if upheld will bring punishments appropriate for corrupting over 700 football games. A whole raft of disciplinary procedures has still to take place. If the misdemeanours of the Craig Whyte era have caused distress, those of the old board, including Ogilvie, Johnston and the Murray twins, will soon establish Rangers current owner as a mere footnote in the club’s demise.
Show of hands, who sat on the board that spent £4m on Jelavic two years after the HMRC investigation into EBTs started?
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Donald Trump’s hair – Neil Lennon
Fact
Aw Naw
That was then, this is now.
There are external pressures from UEFA and the UK government at play that will always be needed to get a fair hearing.
The SPL share I think is for the SPL to decide but the club license is the province of the SFA and for an SPL place that is governed by UEFA licensing criteria.
It is how this not inconsiderable hurdle is negotiated (if it has to be) that I will base any judgements in.
UEFA FFP is exactly what Scottish football needs. We see what happens when fair play is forgotten and it must prevail or chaos reigns.
This is the Scottish Football version of Armageddon and the Tims are on the side of the angels.
Hindenberg disaster. Neil Lennon asked to account for his whereabouts.
ulysses mcghee on 24 April, 2012 at 16:23 said
pmsl – tea/keyboard moment
HH
Ally Mcoist’s weight gain- Lennon, Neil F.
Fact!
it is now known that it is the sfa who will hear their appeal remember it was a judical panel that slapped them on the wrists i expect the sfa now to reduce this even further with the backing [intimidate] of the msm.
gallagher on 24 April, 2012 at 16:20 said:
Celtic Soul Brother- Supporting Kano 1000 on 24 April, 2012 at 16:12
And pop will eat itself, i never knew that info/history of the song.
No problem-forgot to leave a link for the site.Great for anoraks like myself who are interested in original versions of both well and little known songs.
http://www.originals.be/en
Do the rangers players who took a pay cut automatically revert back to their contracts or do they need to be resigned and how does this work with rangers now under a transfer embargo?
Who shot JR?
I think it is time Rangers started calling in those pledges that were made on that website.
Gerry Adams, Sean South, Mickey Mouse and Lee Kwee-Dashun better start getting their cheque books out to save “ra berz”
The Great Fire of London- Unrepentant Red Haired Fenian arrested.
Brimmer
They’re ragers til they die and they don’t do walking away ……… so my guess is that, having limited all other options, they’re going for the ol’ mass suicide routine outside Hamp Den on Saturday?
Could be wrong though.
HH
ASonOfDan on 24 April, 2012 at 16:20
A young hun at work was wittering on a few weeks ago about how his dad and uncle had raised £500 for the fighting fund. I took great delight in informing him and the assembled others that D+P charged £640 per hour, fair put their gas at a peep it did.
HH
bourne
Is there an on-off ramp on the M74 extension, where exactly is it, and does it link through to new M8/M80 works? And another thing, why does it take forever to get away from a ground that is in effect surrounded by motorways?
ASonOfDan on 24 April, 2012 at 16:26 said:
They revert back to contracts/wages on 1st June. Transfer embargo is for any new players (18 years old or over) not players currently registered with club (including those who will be out of contract in the summer).
Dallas Police have just sent a Forensic Team to The Grassy Knoll-more as we get it Sky News.
Ex Ludo on 24 April, 2012 at 16:27 said:
Who shot JR?
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i know Neil Lennon
BREAKING NEWS
James Murdoch has told the Leveson inquiry that all phone hacking was authorised by Neil Lennon.
Songs to sing (con’t):
Whyte Lightning ~ Def Leppard
Whyte Is In The Winter Night ~ Enya
Whyte room – Cream
Whyte Christmas-Bing Crosby
A Whyter Shade of Pale-Procol Harem
Ride A Whyte Swan ~ T Rex
Nights In Whyte Satin – Moody Blues
Celtic Mac on 24 April, 2012 at 16:28 said:
bourne
Is there an on-off ramp on the M74 extension, where exactly is it, and does it link through to new M8/M80 works? And another thing, why does it take forever to get away from a ground that is in effect surrounded by motorways?
……………………………….
Because most of the police officers are of the same calibre as this man:
Google: Police Typing Fail
walking in a Lenny wonderland
must be put together and soon :o)
wordsmiths do your duty
Ludo,
who did you hear it was?
bye bye rangers…
As well as football sanctions, there are three main issues facing the administrators and potential buyers.
Rangers owe Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs more than £14million in annual tax payments plus about £4million relating to payments made to Ronald de Boer and Tore Andre Flo around the turn of the century. But they could also face a far higher bill of up to £75million over their use of Employee Benefit Trusts from 2001-10 during Sir David Murray’s reign, the subject of a tax tribunal in January. A ruling could come any time soon and HMRC are likely to appeal if they lose. HMRC could block attempts for Rangers to come out of administration via a Company Voluntary Arrangement and could object to Miller’s attempts to buy the assets for £11.2million.
Investment firm Ticketus have a contract giving them the rights to sell £27million of season tickets over three years, having given the club more than £30million in finance under Whyte’s tenure. The investment firm are still negotiating with Murray’s Blue Knights consortium over a compromise arrangement and could help finance that bid.
Whyte owns 85% of the club’s shares and is seeking some assurances in return for possibly handing the bulk of them over to the Blue Knights. The businessman personally guaranteed the Ticketus money and would be susceptible to action if he did not negotiate a deal. Duff and Phelps have claimed Whyte, who bought his stake for £1, would not be an impediment to a sale and hinted at the prospect of enforcement action but they have toned down previous claims that he was “irrelevant”.
Lest we forget – in this whole fiasco, the villified Craig Whyte is the only person who has used Rangers money to pay a Rangers debt.
He should be put on a pedestal by the MSM for that alone…
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 24 April, 2012 at 16:24
So far Stewart Reagan has made it abundantly clear by specific actions and inactions that the possibility of a Newco STARTING in the SPL. If this comes to pass will you accept that Stewart Reagan needs to go ?
Hail HAil
Neil Lennon ate my hamster
Re the appeal to SFA and fact that the “expulsion” part of the rules wasnt used, maybe this will be the ultimate sanction for a spurious appeal.
Come on FTT, timing is everything!!
Surely the time has arrived for the SFA and SPL acting in the interests of Scottish Football and Scottish society in general, to bring an end to the present Rangers fiasco.
There must be an immediate announcement of the rescinding of yesterday’s Draconian punishments inflicted on the hapless and totally innocent Ibrox club.
Further to the above there should be a commitment to not imposing any further sanctions on Rangers. This regardless of who is left in the lurch through financial improvidence on the part of Ibrox Boards, past present and to come.
This would clear the way for a buyer to come in and let us all get on with business as usual.
Kayal33
So they need to honour these contracts that lose them Millions because if they don’t and terminate them is it classed as signing a new player?
Sorry, if appearing thick, but I can’t get my head round it..
Paul67
They can spot a player though and boy did they pursue him.
That action alone speaks volumes for their irresponsibilty/stupidity.
Alex Thomson is right on the ball re it all being a symptom if spiv (my word) governance.
Auldheid
it is quite pertinent and worthwhile bearing in mind that Rangers so far have had 0 points removed from them and fined half of what Celtic were fined for poaching Tommy Burns by the SFA.
All punishments we have seen so far are PURELY cosmetic
Hail Hail
CELTIC SOUL BROTHER
Thanks for the link.
There are a lot of classic tracks that turn out not to be by,well,who you think they should be!
Here’s a typical example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgr_OTgW8Y
It ain’t a JM original,but I did not realise how old the original was!
!!Bada Bing!! on 24 April, 2012 at 16:27 said:
The Great Fire of London- Unrepentant Red Haired Fenian arrested.
See below – from the inscription on the North panel on The Monument in the City of London. Could it have been ye olde Neil F Lennon Esq!
“A little space of time saw the same city most prosperous and no longer in being. On the third day, when it had now altogether vanquished all human counsel and resource, at the bidding, as we may well believe of heaven, the fatal fire stayed its course and everywhere died out. *[But Popish frenzy, which wrought such horrors, is not yet quenched.]”
* These last words were added in 1681 and finally deleted in 1830.
I’am making the tea while Rangers die Its lamb but its not succulent.
Elton John has reworked his classic. Yellow Brick Road.
So goodbye Copeland road
Where the dogs of society howl
You can’t plant me in your shoitehouse
I’m going back to my plough.
Back to the howling old owl in the woods
Hunting the horny back toad
Oh I’ve finally decided to liquidise
Beyond the Copeland road
There’s only one person to blame for Britains poor record in the Eurovision song contest……
and the MRSA bug in hospitals………..
and the potholes in our roads……..
and for Mars bars getting smaller……
Ogilvie, Ogilvie, when will those clouds all disappear?
Ogilvie, Ogilvie, where will it lead us from here?
With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats
You can’t say we’re satisfied
But Ogilvie, Ogilvie, we can’t say you never tried
Ogilvie, you’re beautiful, but ain’t it time we said good-bye?
Ogilvie, I still love you, remember all those nights we cried?
All the dreams we held so close seemed to all go up in smoke
Let me whisper in your ear:
Ogilvie, Ogilvie, where will it lead us from here?
Oh, Ogilvie, don’t you weep, all your kisses still taste sweet
I hate that sadness in your eyes
But Ogilvie, Ogilvie, ain’t it time we said good-bye?
With no loving in our souls and no money in our coats
You can’t say we’re satisfied
But Ogilvie, I still love you, baby
Ev’rywhere I look I see your eyes
There ain’t a hun that comes close to you
Come on Baby, dry your eyes
But Ogilvie, Ogilvie, ain’t it good to be alive?
Ogilvie, Ogilvie, they can’t say we never tried