Following RangersTaxCase’s information that Rangers-HMRC First Tier Tribunal report was in the hands of both parties’ solicitors on Friday, I subsequently heard the report runs to in excess of 300 pages. It will be published by the court authorities in due course but I don’t expect anything this week. Any attempt to spin or release excerpts from the report could be considered contempt so it is likely that we will hear nothing formally until then.
Once the report goes live you can expect an already-prepared summary with plenty of focus on what the FTT denied HMRC. HMRC will not achieve a clean sweep, some matters were dealt with correctly, but there will be no surprises on these pages for the thrust of the findings.
I’m looking forward to an entertaining and final dose of bombast from one of the parties, hopefully in keeping with some of the all-time favourites from March 2000, “Rangers are moving on to another level from the rest of Scottish football”, “the Glasgow giants are setting an agenda that no other Scottish club can match”.
That famous article in The Herald asserts “The Ibrox chairman [Sir David Murray] has spent several months and many sleepless nights piecing together the plans which will eliminate Rangers”.
It does, of course, insert the word “debt” into the end of that sentence but sometimes fewer words paint a more accurate picture. While we’re on a related subject, well done to Sports Direct FC for reaching the summit of the Third Division on goal difference. That manager’s definitely worth keeping. Ashley’s money is being wisely spent.
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Ole Ernesto -you set very high standards, and some of us fall short of the exacting requirements, despite our best efforts.
JF does have a tattoo of Bobby Evans on his right shoulder.
Charlie Mulgrew anytime goalscorer 16/1.
I have watched football with some Old Amplefordians. It was Portugal against England at Euro 2004. To a man they wanted Portugal. I asked why. They said in their posh voices: “We feel much more Irish.”
They liked Celtic too, these lads. Maybe they weren’t representative. New money, and all that.
DBBIA
To be fair to Ernesto, our main exemplar of the values produced by Amplefunds College is The Whinging Detective.
His one man campaigns to have Sturm Und Drang Nationality Tests (Plucking Plastic Paddies for the Papacy) and to Hang Nelson Mandela do not immediately suggest a close affinity with Timmishness as she is understood elsewhere.
Celtic First: ‘The most important thing there is that the baby should arrive safely.’
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……..At about 7.45pm
HH
Rod Stewart was a bit effete in his pomp was he no’?
Celtic First.
@10.08
Absolutely spot on with your thoughts.
Whilst Messi would diminish the ability of the Barcelona team, if he was missing, it is far more important that his wife and new born son are both healthy.
Mort – have you been eating cheese before bed again?
Mort:
Man that is weird, I had the very same dream only my alarm went off with three minutes to play.
And we were winning 4 – 3.
And Ol’Tim and BT were sober. Okay that’s stretching it.
None of Celtic’s Champions League group games will be shown live on terrestrial TV.
WorldRecords CSC
Cesc Fàbregas is Uri Geller.
Live at the wee Gazebo
bournesouprecipe:
Don’t mean to pour salt mate but here it is on SBS (terrestrial) ESPN 2 and Celtic TV.
I wish I had three eyes.
Bournesouprecipe – I complained to STV about that – they do not seem to be bothered about it. Has anybody else complained.
Bournesoup
This is because Scotland has no independent media any more.
This is one of Scotland’s biggest problems. All right, we don’t need a return to media run by masons. But we are no better off than the people of Birmingham or Leeds, and they don’t have their own national teams and their own parliament.
I used to debate this long and hard with a Welsh colleague. He accepted Scotland having its own media was one of the reasons we had more devolved powers than Wales. He was jealous. He said media in Wales were weak and cross-border (HTV and the Western Mail had constituencies both sides of the Severn Bridge). In the last ten years we have witnessed the Welshification of Scotland’s media and we are paying the price.
Looks like Broonie + Kelvin Wilson will be missing tonight
A lesson to be learned for Broonie
Never put your country before your club
Otherwise he would be lining up in one of the world’s greatest stadiums tonight
Rod Stewart a Tribute To Jinky
Loving the optimism for tonight. It’s going to be a long, hard shift for our players, chasing the ball for much of the night.
href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7QW5RkXSUo”>Rod’s Jinky Tribute
Infact did the Embrocation no’ go through an effete period of rock n roll androgyny?
I have to admit I am not as confident as many in here that we will get a result tonight.
I am confident that we will put on a competitive display and look to pick points at home.
Away to Benfica is where I am hoping we win as that would surely qualify us through to the last 16.
Anyway c’mon the Hoops. Hail Hail.
kit / CF / Cumbernauld
Our loss of independent media seems to have coincided with the birth of Sevco?
But then maybe I’m just being paranoid
The Loudest Roar – Frankie Miller
A youth match in the Liga Caacupeña in Paraguay ends in a bit of a rammy and the ref issues some red cards.
All right, 36 red cards.
Talk about world records.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOWSqN4CyBk&feature=player_embedded#!
Ten Men Won The League
Where is that being reported?
Shows how far Wilson has come that I will be really dissappointed if he is not playing.
Kit
I prefer yours although it might be better to be chasing the game rather than trying to hold on to a lead for a few mins.
Mort
bournesouprecipe
10:53 on
23 October, 2012
None of Celtic’s Champions League group games will be shown live on terrestrial TV.
WorldRecords CSC
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Now surely if Scotland only gets a pittence from the CL TV revenue due to the size of the country, our games should be broadcast on STV, however we are lumped into Englands ITV deal, but with no benefits. WE should be demanding our games are either shown for all to see or give us a 20% share of the English money
There are times when the very righteous among the CQN community come across as something of a parody of the Four Yorkshiremen.
It’s really rather engaging…
All the best to the Bhoys tonight,hope all our fans in Barcelona do the club proud.2 nil to the Bhoys.SAMMI.
Bournesoup
The media allowed themselves to be manipulated. David Murray realised he was pushing against an open door and used it to his advantage.
Graham Spiers wrote a book about Paul Le Guen’s months of misery at the Darnel Dome. He relates that when Le Guen arrived, Murray told his new manager that he, Murray, had 85% of the Scottish press in his pocket.
Good morning all
Long time lurker just saying hello to everyone now that I have decided to join in.
Haven’t done anything like this since the old 606 days on the beeb(happy days)
hail hail to you all and please be gentle with me :)
Lisbon Lions-Best day of our lives
” Big games tonight , Boro v Hull city – Barcelona v Celtic ”
@BernieSlaven
TBB
Aye but you try telling young people that nowadays and they won’t believe you!
Lenny bringing BACK the THUNDER
Really canni wait to watch the bhoys.. Id go with
Forster
Adam Lustig Ambrose Izzy
Vic
Brown Kayal Ledley Sammi
Hooper
Thats what i would go with if all 100% fit.